Review of It Follows (2015) by Ahnehnois — 02 Apr 2015
I enjoyed it, but felt it a tad overrated. The title is pretty much the horror conceit here. "It" will follow you, slowly, but relentlessly. Symbolically powerful, but narratively unsatisfying (that goes for both the creature and the movie itself).
It's a very sexual movie; with both non-sexual nudity and non-nude sex scenes. There are a small number of jump scares, and a large number of drawn out scenes of tension. It is creepy, and the way the characters test the "rules" of this horror world lend it a certain credibility. The negatives are some weird cuts; where it isn't adequately explained how the characters got to or did something given the stakes.
The writer oddly does not explain why these teenagers are so completely unsupervised or where the cops are when some of the nasty events go down, which is made all the stranger by the fact that cops and parents are around in the movie's first third. The ending is somewhat blunt and unsatisfying, but perhaps appropriate. On the whole, it's better than a lot of the junk that gets labeled as horror, but not life-changing or anything.
Some people seem to interpret it as a sex-negative movie, but I thought it a bit more complex than that. If anything, maybe it's love positive.
This review of It Follows (2015) was written by Ahnehnois on 02 Apr 2015.
It Follows has generally received positive reviews.
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