Chicago – One of the sauciest new jobs that has arisen from the digital era is that of “Influencer.” Gathering followers, showing off new products and using your personality is the job description in this age of clicks. Writer/director Alex Haughey explores this phenomenon in his new film “Under the Influencer,” which is currently available for download and streaming.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Tori (Taylor Scorse) has been an influencer since shyly going online at age 15 to teach an eyeliner technique. Eventually her personality reaches a large audience, and she officially makes a living as an influencer. Ten years later, she’s still at it, but losing touch with the target audience. Her team gets more desperate, and her personal life starts to infiltrate the online persona, blurring lines in her life. What happens when someone is 25 years old and knows nothing about who she is?
The film is brilliantly balanced between the...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Tori (Taylor Scorse) has been an influencer since shyly going online at age 15 to teach an eyeliner technique. Eventually her personality reaches a large audience, and she officially makes a living as an influencer. Ten years later, she’s still at it, but losing touch with the target audience. Her team gets more desperate, and her personal life starts to infiltrate the online persona, blurring lines in her life. What happens when someone is 25 years old and knows nothing about who she is?
The film is brilliantly balanced between the...
- 2/7/2024
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
For a year in the the 2010s, filmmaker Alex Haughey worked for a social media influencer — a job he quickly tried to put behind him.
“It was not a good job, but it was an interesting character study of this life outside of reality,” says Haughey, who went on to direct the low-budget supernatural thriller Prodigy, which was released in 2018 and eventually made a bit of a splash when it later streamed on Netflix.
Haughey was looking for his next project after Prodigy, and found it with Under the Influencer. “If you saw Prodigy, you wouldn’t pick this out as my next project,” he notes with a laugh.
Inspiration struck when Haughey happened to watch the 1962 French feature Cleo from 5 to 7, which centers on a singer who, while she lived decades before social media, still reminded him of the influencer he once worked for.
“Everyone handles her and pampers her.
“It was not a good job, but it was an interesting character study of this life outside of reality,” says Haughey, who went on to direct the low-budget supernatural thriller Prodigy, which was released in 2018 and eventually made a bit of a splash when it later streamed on Netflix.
Haughey was looking for his next project after Prodigy, and found it with Under the Influencer. “If you saw Prodigy, you wouldn’t pick this out as my next project,” he notes with a laugh.
Inspiration struck when Haughey happened to watch the 1962 French feature Cleo from 5 to 7, which centers on a singer who, while she lived decades before social media, still reminded him of the influencer he once worked for.
“Everyone handles her and pampers her.
- 12/8/2023
- by Aaron Couch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A full Free Movie of the Day is posted on the JoBlo Horror Movies YouTube channel every other day during the week – but on Fridays things get even freakier and a little more fun. Get your weekend started the right way by indulging in Friday Fright Nights! Every Friday, we’ll be taking a look at another genre movie you can watch in its entirety, free of charge, either on the YouTube channel linked above or in the video embed here.
The Friday Fright Night feature we have for you this week is This Land, a horror film that gets its title from the folk song “This Land Is Your Land”, which Woody Guthrie first wrote back in 1940, when he was tired of hearing the Kate Smith rendition of “God Bless America” on the radio all the time. And as you might expect from a film that has a title origin story like that,...
The Friday Fright Night feature we have for you this week is This Land, a horror film that gets its title from the folk song “This Land Is Your Land”, which Woody Guthrie first wrote back in 1940, when he was tired of hearing the Kate Smith rendition of “God Bless America” on the radio all the time. And as you might expect from a film that has a title origin story like that,...
- 3/31/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
"Every four years, a blood offering was made... They traded blood for gold, and death for life." Stay away from these folks! Terror Films has revealed an official trailer for an indie horror thriller titled This Land, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Richard Greenwood Jr. after tons of other short films before this. It will be debuting on VOD in March if any horror fans are curious about this. A cabin-in-the-woods horror with a few different twists. Two families from opposite ends of the political spectrum turn on each other after a cabin rental mix-up, but must work together to survive after a sinister group emerges with an ancient destructive pact. The indie horror film stars Natalie Whittle, Adam Burch, John J Pistone, Mindy Montavon, Jerod Powers, Taylor Joree Scorse, and Garret Camilleri. This certainly looks like something meant for a VOD debut, that's for sure. Seems best...
- 2/16/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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