Movie No. 65 (2016): IT FOLLOWS
It Follows (2014)
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Cast: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary, Olivia Loccardi
"It Follows" is a strange kind of horror movie. There is some interesting semblance of originality in it that we can't find in horror movies in the past. Jay gets some kind of curse after having sex with her new boyfriend, Hugh, who intentionally does the "passing" of the sexually-transmitted curse to her. Hugh sees and being followed by a demon or monster who takes the form of dead human being. He'll be dead if the thing get him. It is now Jay that is being followed.
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Cast: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary, Olivia Loccardi
"It Follows" is a strange kind of horror movie. There is some interesting semblance of originality in it that we can't find in horror movies in the past. Jay gets some kind of curse after having sex with her new boyfriend, Hugh, who intentionally does the "passing" of the sexually-transmitted curse to her. Hugh sees and being followed by a demon or monster who takes the form of dead human being. He'll be dead if the thing get him. It is now Jay that is being followed.
Now, Jay and her friends make a childish (and stupid) plan to trap and kill the monster. The desperate move seems to have succeeded, so they think. So, Jay and her friend (Paul) have sex to see if the curse is gone. But the ending - although ambiguous - suggest a different thing, which makes me wonder what has happened between the end of the "duel" and that final shot.
The movie is gorgeously shot; the script is competent. This is not your typical horror movie loaded with teens that end up being killed one by one - the type of blockbuster movie that Hollywood usually makes to rake money at the box office. The movie, while not having the capacity to elicit loud screams, remains to be scary in a sublime way.
Rating: 4.0/4.0
Date seen: August 27, 2016
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