IT FOLLOWS (2014)
This is one of those rare horror masterpieces that you'll love more as soon as you finished the movie & start thinking about it! Through his first venture into the horror, writer-director David Robert Mitchell created something seemingly so simple but absolutely extraordinary here that I think even horror masters like David Cronenberg or Roman Polanski would have love to play with IT in their glory days of Horror.
STD, insecure & guilt ridden adolescent, confronting our evil within & its manifestation...we can go on & on but metaphorically the theme of IT FOLLOWS has so many levels that you'll just keep discovering them as every time you are going to see it or discuss about it with others. From start to finish this film demands your full attention & you'll have no problem to give that as how skillfully every shots been taken here with superbly eerie scores on the background. I'd also like to give another big thumbs up to the director as how beautifully he kept the film with almost zero or very minimal nudity & eroticism while the plot is so sexual in nature. The studio is already planing for a sequel focusing the origin of IT (souce: wikipedia)...which is a terrible idea, IMO. Cause this amazing, strange horror film doesn't need any sequel or prequel to tell anything more...it's one of those gems whose strengths lies on its mystery & wonder. Anyway, one thing is for sure IT FOLLOWS will follow & secure its deserving place in the heart of many mature & ardent horror movie fans for a long time. See it asap if you still haven't or it'll follow you slowly wherever you go
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Originally Posted by horcrux2007
It's easily a 10 for me. I mostly loved the weirdness, atmosphere, and suspense of the movie. It felt like I was in another world. For some reason I liked watching them drive around and stuff. As for the characters' lack of common sense, the director said they were supposed to be like the kids from Scooby-Doo, do their plans were gonna be stupid. The ending didn't sit well with be at first either, but now I think it ended perfectly because we never know if the person following them is a normal person or a follower. It's definitely a divisive film, but I loved it!
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Totally agree. Considering their age group & the hell they are dealing with by themselves, their odd or stupid decisions didn't surprise me much. I loved that ambiguous nature of the ending too.