There is something especially nasty about horror built around social media. A haunted house is easy enough to understand. You leave it. A dark forest has an edge to it too. You can eventually get back to the road. But your phone? That thing follows you everywhere, and The Influencer Project (2026) is built around…
Found-footage horror has found a very different kind of nightmare in 2026. There are no isolated cabins, cursed tapes, or mysterious figures waiting at the edge of a forest this time. The Influencer Project, the psychological horror thriller released in theaters on October 2, 2026, takes aim at something far more familiar: the life of…
Horror has always found new ways to exploit whatever people are afraid of at a particular moment. The found-footage boom of the late 1990s came out of a world becoming increasingly fascinated by cheap digital cameras, the early internet, and the idea that ordinary-looking footage could hide something genuinely disturbing. In 2026, that anxiety has…
There is something particularly nasty about The Influencer Project. Not because it needs some elaborate supernatural mythology or a monster hiding in the dark, but because almost everything frightening about it already exists. The film takes the familiar machinery of influencer culture—followers, livestreams, location tags, sponsorships, constant filming—and turns it into the exact thing that…