Short Stuff: 'Lurker'

It really does help that Pellerin looks like every single 2010s Let's Play YouTuber combined. There's something about that Jerma vibe, that white boy, almost too regular a face, so normal you couldn't possibly pick him out. The ultimate lurker, as it were. Sometimes the movie even feels like a Let's Play. The moves are clear, the actions obvious. If you like your thrillers unpredictable, then go elsewhere because everything you imagine happening in this movie does, and it was really holding it back for me for the longest time. I'm not great with cringe, awkward comedy either, which this is just rife with. Long holds, awkward haha's. Real smarmy shit.

It was losing me until the final ten minutes, when the movie proves itself to have a little more on its mind than just stalking. Recognising the twisted usefulness behind superfans like that intelligently, I did not expect, especially in the manner that it does it. I mean, that music video is actually fucking good, and that's the issue. He gets him. Very interesting. Were I able to sit through one of these without instinctually reaching for the proverbial remote anytime an extended awkward scene happens I'd probably love this, even with its occasional leaps into 'really? That's what we're doing?' territory. It's good!

P.S. The way it accurately treats DSLR cameras and grain as a cover-up for actual talent was very funny.