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Mar 13, 2015 · "It Follows," the second feature by writer/director David Robert Mitchell ("The Myth of the American Sleepover"), works as well as it does because its creators keep viewers at arm's length. It's a ghost story, though dead people don’t necessarily haunt its suburban protagonists.
95% Tomatometer 270 Reviews 66% Audience Score 25,000+ Ratings After carefree teenager Jay (Maika Monroe) sleeps with her new boyfriend, Hugh (Jake Weary), for the first time, she learns that she...
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Mar 12, 2015 · Rather than breaking new ground, “It Follows” recycles familiar teenage horror tropes — a girl alone in a house, evil forces banging on a door — but its mood is dreamy.
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By Leigh Singer
Updated: Aug 16, 2021 11:59 pm
Posted: Oct 16, 2014 10:40 am
It Follows was reviewed at the London Film Festival.
Sex and death: a staple of scary movies forever, from eroticized vampire feeding frenzies through to Cronenbergian body horror (Shivers, Rabid) and slasher movies’ promiscuous teens. You don’t need to have studied Freud to view the endless Friday the 13ths and Halloweens, with their knives, axes and chainsaws thrusting at and penetrating nubile young girls (and the occasional guy) as frustrated phallic revenge. Film studies tutors get off on these readings the way Jason Vorhees does when watching a new batch of dumbass campers arrive at Crystal Lake.
Yet despite their sledgehammer subtlety, Jason or Michael Myers’ psycho/sexual motives are hidden subtext compared to the explicit analogy of It Follows. David Robert Mitchell’s tale is brilliantly simple: The Ring with sex. The curse here is a slow-moving but relentless killer apparition who appears – but is only visible to you - when you sleep with someone already cursed, who’s now passed on the ‘virus’ to you. The only way to escape is to sleep with someone new, who will in turn be stalked. Sex is death. And death, judging from the Followers’ appearances – usually naked or in bedroom attire – comes directly from sex. The circle of death, as Elton John once nearly sang. And so it goes. Or, rather, follows.
A hauntingly original and genuinely unsettling take on familiar spooky elements that ultimately doesn’t quite hang together and might even alienate hardcore horror fans. But there’s huge promise here from writer-director David Robert Mitchell and, whatever the genre, it’ll be worth seeing how he follows it up.
Mar 14, 2015 · In It Follows, writer director David Robert Mitchell has created a simple, perfect, and bone-chillingly terrifying horror conceit that doesn't need blood or jump scares. It doesn't even,...
Mar 13, 2015 · For 19-year-old Jay (Maika Monroe), fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she finds herself plagued by strange visions and the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her.
