Followed (2018) on Netflix
R20181h 36m
A controversial vlogger, DropTheMike, is offered $250,000 to add 50,000 subscribers to his channel. He brings his video crew to the Lennox Hotel in Los Angeles, a building with a deadly history.
- Netflix3.1/5
- IMDb4.9/102,519 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes73%
Trailer
Plot summary
DropTheMike stands to collect a $250,000 sponsorship once his channel adds 50,000 subscribers. He books Halloween weekend at the Lennox, a downtown Los Angeles hotel where suicides and murders stretch back to its founding. Korean tourist Meghan Kim was found burned in the boiler room shortly before, after surveillance video recorded her behaving strangely in the elevator. Mike sits down with Wallace Fleischer, an author, to hear about David Olmos, a Satanist and serial killer who stayed at the Lennox in the 1980s. Mike brings Nic, his editor, Chris, his director of photography, and Dani, who runs sound and camera. Mike, Dani and Chris take rooms on the top floor, where Olmos killed his victims, and Nic edits next door.
Cast
- Caitlin Graceas Nic
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Followed (2018)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Producers Antoine Le and Todd Klick based the film's fictional Lennox Hotel on the real Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles, a building whose history of death and violence includes the death of Elisa Lam and murders by serial killers Jack Unterweger and Richard Ramirez.
- Followed was filmed in only 12 days, working from a 144-page script, meaning the cast and crew got through roughly a dozen pages a day.
- The producers also drew on Creepypasta and based the vlogger DropTheMike on famous YouTubers such as Logan Paul and PewDiePie, who use controversy to gain subscribers.
- Producers cast Matthew Solomon as DropTheMike, Caitlin Grace as Nic and Tim Drier as Chris before the script was written, and writer Todd Klick then shaped the screenplay around the actors' own mannerisms and approach to their characters.
- Two Los Angeles hotels, the Hayward Manor Apartments downtown and the Hotel Normandie in Koreatown, stood in for the film's fictional Lennox Hotel, and Skid Row was also used, with homelessness serving as a literal and thematic backdrop.
