Review of It Follows (2015) by Heatherm — 26 Apr 2015
I'm not generally a scary movie person, but I absolutely loved this movie. It was suspenseful and terrifying and really hard to watch, and a week or two later I still get the heebie-jeebies when I think about some of the film's events.
It was incredibly well acted, and so many of the shots were beautiful--just the camera panning slowly across a quiet suburban street. I found it really interesting that they managed to anonymize the time period to such a degree--I've spoken to people who think it took place in the future (because of the clam shell ereader), and ones who think it took place in the past because all the other electronics look so old and dated.
I think the overall effect is to set it in any time period, which is also perhaps why it was so hard to tell where it was taking place until near the end. The premise was so simple and startling and the result is an excellent movie.
I'm so glad that it received wide distribution and that I got to see it, and be scared by it.
This review of It Follows (2015) was written by Heatherm on 26 Apr 2015.
It Follows has generally received positive reviews.
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