It’s seldom that a found-footage horror movie pulls some new tricks in that overtaxed subgenre, and “Followed” runs no risk of being any such exception to the tedious rule. Sewing together ideas borrowed from other, better movies — notably “Grave Encounters” and “The Shining” — without exactly making a new whole, let alone lending them any novel flair or intensity, this vloggers-in-a-haunted-hotel opus isn’t really any better than 1967’s Ferlin Husky vehicle “Hillbillies in a Haunted House.
A skittish believer in “ghosts and evil spirits,” Christopher doesn’t want to go on this field trip, but is persuaded by the presence of crush object Danni. Mike, on the other hand, thinks all things supernatural are pure bunk — making his whole enterprise gratingly cynical as well as grating in most other ways. Even after inexplicable things start happening, Mike rationalizes them as probable on-site trolling by the vlog’s fans. Of course, he’ll come to regret his cavalier skepticism.
Purportedly inspired by the real-life Cecil Hotel’s violent history , there are too many past hotel traumas and potential ghoulies raised here, none developed into a primary or particularly effective menace. By default, “Followed” becomes a pileup of attempted jump scares that seldom work because we rarely get a good look at them. Framing the whole business as being assembled by a sinister, anonymous web surfer only distances us further from any immediacy of menace.
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