The claustrophobia of our pandemic digital existence adds to the later scenes... moreover, the reveal for why Mike is so determined to do something so dumb as wake the dead adds a surprising poignancy to the well-executed chills.

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.

While Followed won't lead you to any conclusions that you can't get reach by yourself, it's sometimes fun getting there anyway.

The scares are sometimes effective, but, most importantly, the filmmakers’ ability to humanize their off-putting protagonist shouldn’t go unnoticed. It’s that extra effort that seals the ending’s level of success.