Veteran horror director Kurtis David Harder uses classic genre tropes like blood-soaked scares, creepy twists and stylized violence to send shivers down the spines of audiences for Influencers , the Canadian filmmaker’s follow-up to his 2023 original horror thriller Influencer .

But with young people increasingly warned about the dangers of harmful social media content and generative AI tools, Harder also sees his dark tale about a young woman’s chilling obsession with murder and identity theft becoming the perfect scary film for our scary times.

“Horror is a great platform to dive into the darker sides of society,” Harder told The Hollywood Reporter ahead of a screening of Influencers at the Whistler Film Festival, just before a Dec. 12 bow on Shudder . “With these two mo

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