This year's Fantastic Fest film fest has been a little light on the horror for me. Some years it just happens to work out this way schedule-wise, but other years I have to wonder if it is due to a lack of high caliber films in the genre. Though it seems as though another "horror" film comes out everyday, many of these simply don't meet the Fantastic Fest muster. Fortunately there have been a couple films at this year's fest that have provided my fright fix, and one of them that somewhat came through is Owen Edgerton's psychological thriller/horror FOLLOW.
Quinn and Thana are a seemingly normal couple until a few days before Christmas when Thana gives her beau an early gift . To Quinn's shock, his lady gives him a gun. In a fit of passion she insists he put the gun in his mouth and pull the trigger to test his trust in her. Before the conclusion of the dare, Quinn passes out and awakes to find his love dead from a gunshot wound. From here, our protagonist (?) must piece together the events that his booze-adled mind have blocked out while fighting for whats left of his sanity...which becomes increasingly questionable when he decides to keep Thana's beautiful corpse rather than contact the authorities.aka Annette Kellerman
