'This thing, it's gonna to follow you. Somebody gave it to me, and I've passed it to you.'
Directed by David Robert Mitchell
Starring: Rebecca Green, Laura D. Smith, David Robert Mitchell and David Kaplan
Released: March 13th 2014 (U.S.)
Budget: $2M Box Office: $20.5M
Concept
Welcome again cultists and we ministers are proud to present to you It Follows.Wow we enjoyed this film a lot. It's clever, chilling and the way it implements jumpscares is just so delicious we should be stalking you if you haven't seen it. But we're not going to do that...it's illegal...on earth anyway.
Jay is a typical high school girl, pretty, popular yet down to earth and has a group of mismatched friends. She goes on a date with Hugh, at the cinemas he gets creeped out when Jay can't see a woman he can. He leaves quickly and Jay promptly follows. They have a great night and end up making love in his car. Everything seems perfect until Hugh knocks Jay out with chloroform.
She awakes, bound to a wheelchair in an abandoned building. Hugh is erratic and begins telling her how a thing is coming after her. It can look like a stranger or somebody she loves. It is relentless, it cannot run but will constantly follow the individual until it kills them. The only cure? Pass it on. With help from her friends Jay attempts to escape death, before it catches up to her.
Review
Such a clever film, such a creepy, drawn out film. This flick causes the viewer to constantly look in the background in each scene, it makes you paranoid and noticing somebody walking towards the protagonist is terrifying. The camera shots in this film are incredible, and really gives off that feeling of stomach-squeezing dread as it gets closer and closer.
The director Mitchell himself came up with the idea after having a nightmare of being relentlessly followed when he was younger. Critics linked Jays affliction with 'the horror of sexual diseases' but Mitchell himself has stated that is not the case. If you have seen this movie please check out the link below the detail that went into It Follows is absolutely absurd. Considering Mitchell used influences from George Romero and John Carpenter the film has a lot of little unsettling details in it on the scale of The Shining.
Trust me it follows is a film that creeps you out even after the credits have started rolling. It is so perfectly executed it already has me looking over my shoulder for a sequel...
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