"It Follows" Official Movie Review
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- Опубліковано 12 бер 2015
- It Follows starring Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, and Daniel Zovatto, and directed by David Robert Mitchell is reviewed by Ben Mankiewicz (host of Turner Classic Movies), Alonso Duralde (TheWrap and Linoleum Knife podcast) and Christy Lemire (www.ChristyLemire.com).
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After a strange sexual encounter, a teenager finds herself haunted by nightmarish visions and the inescapable sense that something is after her. (C) Radius-TWC
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This transmits through sex? Well I don't have to worry about it.
I'll smash
Juan Monroy Exactly. I supposed to care about someone who uses bad judgement. I want to see this for the technical aspect but I can't interested in the sex passes it along thing.
LMAO!!!!! BEST POST EVER!! XDDDDD
New definition of STD: Sexually Transmitted Demon
Wait what? Ben watched this movie and Alonso didn't?
I saw this movie last night and it is so great. What I loved about it most was the sort of dreamy adolescent summer vibe. I read the metaphor as a kind of loss of that adolescents. Cool stuff.
This movie was just so damn good. It looked and felt like a classic 80's horror flick.
+Darth Ren But is that enough? Is imitating the style of an earlier era of filmmaking enough? This film was empty - all surface.
After seeing the movie tonight, I realize that they actually shortened the title. The full title is "It Follows All The Rest of the Cheesy Teen Horror Movies Straight to the Dollar Bin at Walmart".
You're an idiot.
Yeah, you didn't actually see it. I've seen a lot of cheesy teen horror films and this was pretty different.
the best thing about this movie was the soundtrack but really the movie just lay flat for me
kilpatrickfilms it was the idea of the movie that was awesome. Imagine if that was you being followed.
Loving the Disasterpeace soundtrack.
Most absurd part of the flick: they sneak into a decrepit, abandoned building to lure "IT" inside and kill it, somehow finding a clean, pristine pool area with fresh water and.....electricity? How in the world does such a run down building have such a well-maintained pool area that would put most private pools and gyms to shame? This movie had my girlfriend and me repeatedly uttering, "Oh, COME ON!" Skip this one.
I'm pretty sure it was a public pool that was closed for the night.
The Director also stated that the movie was supposed to feel like a nightmare and in our dreams things don't always make sense.
***** Perhaps, but from what I remember they had to climb a fence that housed an old, run down building that looked 100% abandoned from the outside, only to find a pristine pool area inside. It just didn't make any sense, even when allowing for the "IT" part to be real.
Justin Powers I love absurd logic, but (ironically?) there's a way to do it and a way not to. I don't question light sabers in Star Wars, because I accept it's part of that world's reality, but in a movie like IT FOLLOWS it's meant to be much closer to home/reality, with some supernatural thrown in. The clean and operating pool just didn't match the exterior of the building, which jars some viewers who are doing their best to suspend disbelief for fun.
Michael Steven Martin MASSIVE SPOILERS don't read if you want to see the film
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The whole point was that their entire plan was terrible. It's impossible to electrocute someone with a hairdryer (or other home appliances) in such a large body of water. That's why there are electricity outlets close by pools (to enable machines to be put in to clean the floors and what not).
As to the actual building itself, it isn't that big of a stretch. The city of Detroit might have invested in it before everything there turning to shit (financially speaking then). The city might then lack the funds to operate it, but still maintains it in case a buyer can be found or in case the economic situation improves so that they find the money to operate it succesfully.
It's an adaptation of the card game Old Maid. The only way to get rid of it is to give it to someone else.
I am SHOCKED that I actually called what "it" was in the trailer.
doody magoob What...?
Siggi B Probably Slender
iiWarp - Gaming Channel *Slender Man
"Slender" is a video game. Not the entity's name.
Trevor Mullins True
this was the best scary movie in the past decade
I would really like to see this movie soon. As a student at FSU, and a part of the Film School, I just want to say congratulations to David a very well done picture. He deserves all the accolades he has received so far. Great review again by you guys. Keep it up.
Awesome review. I've never even heard of this, but I can't wait to see it now!
It's so hard to find good horror movies these days. Thanks for the recommendation guys!!
I just saw this movie in theaters I loved it.
What so many people don't seem to realize is that even though you can pass it off to someone else, once that person has been taken out then the monster comes back after you. It keeps going down the line; it doesn't just stop because you gave it to someone else.
what is the name of the old black and white sci fi movie there watching on the TV ??? I can't find this information anywhere
Have you checked imdb?
The soundtrack & cinematography in this was superb!
All anybody has to do to get me to see their movie is put that John Carpenter-style synthesizer music in their trailer.
art-house flicks -- usually not anyone's bag.
i loved it.
Just got back from watching this and Fast Seven. This movie was absolutely amazing. Easily my fav horror flick in quite some time. As far as the setting goes I would guess early to mid 90s. My reasoning being, while there are a lot of 80s cars, most of them look kinda beat up. The cops drive the rounder crown vics as opposed to the boxier kind which leans 90s. With regards to the clothes while there is a lot of denim which leans 80s, there were also a fair few flannels. No one rocked a cell phone, but that little flip device one of the girls was reading from certainly doesn't look like 80s tech. I suppose they could have been going for a timeless feel but I'm pretty sure it's early to mid 90s.
its been showing at the movie theatre i work at for a few weeks now and wasn't really sure if i wanted to see it but this convinced me. going to definitely see this tonight. it kind of reminds me of the guest that came out last year in terms of theme and soundtrack plus i think the main actress in this movie was also in the guest.
So... the Lazarus Effect is in theaters and this isn't? What the shit is going on with the horror film genre? The same thing happened to Babadook getting snubbed out of theaters.
It has a wide release now. It just had a limited release before. There are showtimes for almost all the theaters around me. I realize this was 3 weeks ago, but just in case you didn't know it got a wide release. This and The Babadook are two of the best horror movies I've seen for a while. Legitimately terrifying.
I didn't read this as an STD allegory either, but I did make note of each supporting image or metaphor that supported the thesis that it works as an STD allegory (and there are certainly a lot).
Personally though, I read it as a condemnation of premarital sex. It's set just outside of Detroit (a Catholic-concentrated area). The sex is always between unmarried teens. In fact, the adults aren't around. It sticks to the teen's perspective (wisely, because teen actors can communicate fear very well) and the result is that it's like some kind of urban legend that teens tell one another about sex. Like all urban legends, it operates as a warning. Even the scene where all her problems begin is the iconic sex-in-the-backseat-of-a-car (I can practically see the storyteller's cautionary finger-wagging as she gets to this part). The casting, I think, also supports this. They didn't cast Taylor Lautner types as her friends or a Cara Delevingne lookalike in the starring role. Obviously, I disagree with Christy; I don't think this girl is remotely beautiful -- but she has exactly the right look for the important suburban setting and the even more important age of the target audience. Her look is critical, because (as I'm arguing) this movie is a message addressed to the average young girl (girls who will relate to her based on looks), so the sense of kinship is crucial to drive the fear home.
The nasty fluids coming from the vagina could be read as an STD metaphor, sure, but I think of it more like what the Exorcist was trying to convey by the use of foul liquids coming from her mouth. It's like a kind of tangible pestilence. An impurity. Also, for a movie entirely about sex, notice that the sexual situations are purposely not hot. You don't get titillated by the sex scenes (not even the first sex scene). The way that it's shot, the grinding motion really does remind me of various movies about demonic possession and exorcism. There's a lot of STD metaphor in there of course, but I think that's part of the anti-sex soapbox. If the movie, for example, was just specifically about STD paranoia, I think the sex scenes would've been purposely hot and impulsive (so that the post-coital regret is about indiscriminate indulgence as opposed to being about unchastity).
The nudity is also very obviously nonsexual by design. It's always the supernatural entity and it's always shot to look appalling or horrifying or threatening. The image of the naked old man on the rooftop (tracking us as we drive by) sends a really effective visual cue that the penis is threatening. He's old, he's naked, he's hairy, and his posture is imposing. It's a really well-done visual association of the feeling of dread with the male sex organ. Likewise, when the entity takes female form and there's nudity, we get the same kind of repulsion from the naked breast that we get from the naked penis. The exposed breast is as jarring and threatening even though we're used to seeing breasts in movies.
That post-coital scene where they ask each other whether they feel any different.... look at their faces. I know that the explicit meaning of that look is fear or apprehension (that they feel no different) but metaphorical meaning is like regret (the kind of scene in those abstinence-only videos).
The image of them holding hands in the end (in a symmetrical shot of them walking side by side) is an unusual way to end it. Since the whole movie was clearly written to allow for figurative meaning, I can't help but wonder what that scene is supposed to represent. Is the conclusion that they just decided pass it back and forth between each other and run from the entity together for the rest of their lives (rather than die alone)? And if that's the takeaway, then isn't that a monogamy pitch?
So, I finally got a chance to see "It Follows" and I did enjoy the movie. One thing which I like was the pacing of It Follows as the build-up will keep you on the edge of your seat waiting for that BIG moment to happen. Furthermore, the ending was downright terrible, but it was quite a cliffhanger (per say)... possibly sequel. Only time will truly tell.
At least some people get to see this in theaters.
I just found some information ..the two black and and white sci fi horror movies are called "the giant claw "..and" killers from space" ....but I'm not sure myself. il have to have a look
If I haven't seen a movie like It Follows, there's no way in hell I'd want to sit in the same room as two people who are analyzing the movie and giving away almost every good scene. I always watch these reviews after seeing the movie
Maika looks like Britney Murphy and it takes place in detroit where 8 mile is filmed.
His first film - Myth of The American Sleepover is so much better. I'm sad that Christy was impressed with this.
Im super excited !!!! and actually didn't know anything about this movie or heard of it until i started seeing random ads for it on youtube so now im stoked.
This seems like one of those movies I wish I'd come up with the premise for.
Fangtorn Oh my gosh, I thought the same exact thing as you after watching it.
Very exciting! I'll look for it.
To whomever makes the next post, Im following you
Really cool movie. The music was INCREDIBLE...total '80s synth throwback, and so damn effective. So effective, in fact, that I'll buy both the film and the soundtrack.
Even though the film has a strong '70s vibe, it clearly takes place in the present because Annie uses a cell phone at the beginning of the film, and Yara is reading The Idiot on that weird pink shell compact/birth control case thingie.
I don't understand how in the beginning the girl died and it showed her dismantled yet when it showed the neighbor die he was dry humped to death. The two deaths aren't similar and it's confusing. Also when they were at the beach it grabbed her hair yet when the neighbor opened the door "it" jumped on him. If someone could share their thoughts that'd be great
OMFG!! just finished the movie before watching this review. AT 05:49 I ALMOST SHIT MY PANTS!! Dont do this again... XD
The soundtrack reminds me if the hotline miami soundtrack
Haha
Gary Moore i thought about that too when i was in the cinema watching the movie haha
I liked the movie but what does any of it have to do with first part of the movie ?
what makes them think that the characters are 'free' once it is passed along? the bf in the beginning said clearly that even after it reaches Jay it will continue to him. If they were indeed free and 'it' kills the last person, then what's the point of the story?
Really dug this movie. I didn't find it so much scary as I did creepy though. The score by Disasterpeace (Fez) is excellent! It's essentially John Carpenter's Halloween soundtrack if Carpenter used the same synths as Vangelis did on Blade Runner. If you go in realizing it's not actually set in the 80's you'll probably like it more but it's influenced by them obviously.
bit confused as to how that guy knew so much bout it since he got it from a one night stand, like how exactly he got it and how it would go back to him
a good horror film that gets a limited release. It's like hollywood wants the horror genre to die
I want to see this movie
yeah I've tried imdb no luck ..Ive googled it no luck and I even asked these guys the DVD store in Leicester square if they thought they'd be able to find out .. they tried (for ages ) ....and failed
I see this movie as an allegory for shame or guilt after having sex rather than an STD.
Bring it to Las Vegas!
sort of sounds like Contracted
Ironically, this is a similar premise to "The Box" lol.
I've been wanting to see it for quite a while. I've read a couple of negative commentaries about it but they are quite idiotic.
This was so bad
jwilliams7596
Whatever.
Yep welcome to the reaction to any horror movie that people like, there's ALWAYS dickheads who come in to tell you how not scared they were and how boring it was. Ignore them this movie is great and scary
Why Do you have people on the panel that have not seen it?
This movie sounds awesome!
This is the best horror film of 2015,its a new refreshing take on the classic ghost story,with creepy disturbing images that will stay with you long after viewing it..
If only this was playing near me -___-
It's not at all an STD allegory. It's more of an allegory for death, they way she doesn't know when it's coming, or where it is, but it's coming to her, and some day, it'll come to her.
I remember really looking forward to this. And I hated it. Just a bunch of running. And I hated the ending.
+Shannon Levy I'm with you too many things left wide open and unexplained like WHERE IT CAME FROM and How The First Person Got It etc...but that's me lol
getting stylized with some of the camera angles eh? :)
So happy that Alonso is present to add nothing since he hasn't seen the film. It seems every review you folks put up has someone who can't really add anything because...
The camera operators either need to focus properly or close the aperture, it's incredibly distracting
It's amazing to see how much a part of horror movies panic about sex is.
Every trailer I saw for this movie. It kinda seemed like "The Thing" rip off or like a branch off sequel. Now I know the actual story and it's definitely different from other horror movies. It's new but still the same.
Looks good
OH! So..like...it's like that movie where the person would watch a movie and only had seven days to make someone else watch a movie but, she didn't want to at first but eventually gave in and do it. -_- Or that other movie about the website. -_- Along with "Invasion of the Bodysnatchers" thrown in there. -_- And I'm pretty sure she'd have an easier time sleeping with someone than getting them to watch a movie without being in the room.
Has anyone seen this yet, and if so would you recommend it? I can't trust any of these critics anymore after seeing The Babadook awhile ago and hating it despite the unreal praise it received. This film seems to be the same way but is it better helppp meeeeee
ToddTheTolerable it depends on your taste bc they're quite different other than the fact that they're both indie and sort of visionary. but if you are going to see it, you have to watch it in the cinema
ToddTheTolerable I saw it last week. FANTASTIC movie! Definitely go see it
ToddTheTolerable I recommend seeing it. It's creepy and a little freaky my rating is a ''Matinee''
I did see it a while back. I agree a 7/10 is about right. It was good, but the plot problems held it back, even for a horror movie.
ToddTheTolerable what plot problems are you speaking of?
As a horror movie lover I was hyped for the movie, but the ending was pretty bad. Wasted too much time focusing on her friends and their boring life. Best part of the movie was the soundtrack. 95% is crazy high, it's more like 75%.
It reminded me of Napoleon dynamite for some reason
Does anyone understand the ending? All that blood in the pool, and then they just walk away and you see it following them again. Did they think they killed it?
Rusty Shackleford I was confused by that too. As the director explained it, no they didn't kill it. (spoiler for anyone who hasn't seen the movie yet!) The last scene shows her and the boy holding hands indicating that they are in a relationship and as we saw before she has sex with him. This implies that they are just going to keep "passing it" back and forward between each other so that thing can never get either of them. Pretty clever actually....well in the short term. That's why I think that this is one of the very few horror movies there should be a sequel to.
Rusty Shackleford theres gonna be a sequel :)
Claire Ando When I saw that, I thought of it as the two are going to live together with this thing following them. I think it kind of ties together with the scene where she has sex with Jay and she's talking about her fantasy with some cute guy and they're just driving with nowhere to go. In that last scene, they're walking and it sort of indicates the feeling you've had throughout the movie of where are they going to go?
+Claire Ando Actually, [ SPIOLERS !! ]after Paul purposely gets it from Jay just before the ending, you see him driving, looking for hookers. Their plan was to give it to him, so he can go give it to the hookers, who will most likely spread it to multiple people within an evening. So I'm thinking that was their plan.
We also have it inferred near the middle of the movie that she swims out to go have a gang bang with those fishermen, and what do we see on the roof of her house ? Naked dead dude, cause y'know... *it follows.* no matter how many times they try to just pass it off, it kills that person, and comes back.
Even if they successfully pass it on and it spreads without coming back, it follows, and eventually those people will die, and it'll come back for them. The person following at the end of the movie could just be a normal person, but it's just showing how they will never be safe again.
Then again, the director could have been trying to infer something else, that's just my take on it.
i glad they really liked it if they say a movie is good ill take thier word for it maybe not alonsos but good to hear anyways
such a shame I have to wait until May to see this movie.
I guess they could just make whoever has the curse screw a dog or something so the ghost would follow them lol desperate times calls for desperate measures gotta do what you gotta do.
I was really looking forward to this movie because the reviews were so positive. I usually agree with WTF, especially with Christy. However, I was greatly disappointed with 'It Follows' for several reasons. It is grossly overrated. It isn't a bad movie, just really overrated. It isn't that scary either. The Conjuring was much better.
Stephanie Gunst interesting. i thought the conjuring was super overrated and lacked a lot of substance. it was scary but nothing stood out in that film
The Conjuring was a good horror movie, definitely, but It Follows scared me a lot more personally. The Conjuring, while very good and entertaining, felt "cool" not so much scary. I just find this whole "something is following you but only you can see it and it can look like anybody and it will follow you for the rest of your life (even if you pass it on, it still comes back to you sooner or later)" absolutely fucking horrifying.
For me, The Conjuring was a lot scarier because of the orgy of jump scares but It Follows is more horrifying in the sense that the horror stays with you more as it's deeper and connected to the film's themes that you can draw to real life.
Any scary movie that scares you does its job. So I would never say any scary movie is shit. But horror movie needs some horror in it, I think It Follows does the job well. The concept is interesting, and it is not like jump scares that gives you one shot and that's it; it keeps the intensity at certain level during a long period of time, and the last scene is pretty good--you're so screwed that you can't tell if anyone is the follower or not. If you're watching a horror movie and you're looking for logic flaws, you don't have the proper mindset, go watch a thriller like gone girl.
3mins in... speaking from personal experience Ben?
This movie seems to be a total STD allegory...fantastic stuff!
I found this movie to be kind of boring and not scary. The threat just didn't often seem immediate. And when it did become an immediate threat it was underwhelming and predictable. Not a horrible movie but I preferred The Babadook. This one plays out more as a drama. The score, while working well with the image on screen, was to loud in my cinema as well which took me out of the movie. I understand how this can scare people, but I wasn't one of those people. Still, if you are interested then check it out, maybe wait to rent it though.
This film doesn't work. The only thing I liked about was the quasi-John Carpenter soundtrack.
If you do get "it," hook up with a commercial airline pilot. Or an astronaut. 👍👍
s.t.deamon
great looking film but not all that scary...
Ending: It is a demon following her
I just watched it.
How did this movie even get a green light? What producer in their right mind would have said yes to this? How did this get an R rating? The whole script felt like it was written by highschoolers. There was nothing scary or creepy or suspenseful throughout the whole movie. The music actually made the movie worse. I know it was an homage to the 80's horror, I always thought their music was terrible too
It's a shame they gave away the best scare I have ever seen in this trailer. Good thing I never watched it.
There's a movie on Netflix similar to this... the girl has sex and becomes a zombie....
Love love love this movie. Best horror film beside BaBadook this past decade
best new horror movie in years.
Someone seriously keeps fucking up the focus on these cameras...
honestly what is the point of having people who've not even seen the movie on?
Seriously though wtf was that shell e-book reader the nerdy girl carried around? So weird.
I was just ok, but the end, there is no end. Another cowardly way a movie can't think of a good ending so they just cut in the middle of a scene and the credits come up. Pissed me off. I want to go to a movie being entertained and leave satisfied, not waste my time and money to only have no ending. Oh wait, that's the way movies are made today.......your suppose to use your imagination. Screw that!!! That just pissed me off and I left very unsatisfied!!!
I just thought of a great porn parody: It Swallows
Maybe she should give a cursed button away to end the curse...................oh wait
This movie rocks!
I didnt like the ending. Maybe there was something i missed but i didnt understand
Robert Downey I believe that during the end, when the chick and her friend are walking down the street, you can still see someone far off walking behind them. I think it's meant to hint that despite them thinking they killed it, it's still following them.
I personally was also pretty dissapointed by the ending though.
Thanks for replying, but yeah i understand that but i thought maybe there was more to it. I get its still following them after being killed but that just seems cliche, for lack of a better word.
I mean, it wasn't really killed. Not from what I saw. And honestly there wasn't any real way to end it besides either dragging it out even longer (which wouldn't have been good) and "defeating the evil" which is also very cliche. If it actually got killed, I think I must have missed that part. I just remember the girl having sex with her friend, her friend scouting for hookers (and they never say whether he had sex with a hooker) and then they are walking down the street together. I think it was a great ending and basically the best way they could have ended it. Killing the guy in the pool didn't mean they killed "it" entirely. They shot it before and basically killed it, but it still came back. I think they just wanted to leave the ending to our own devices. Not in a lazy way, but because the only other ways they could have ended it would have been dragging on or cliché.
Robert Downey I thought it was a good ending actually. They basically leave it to play off your own psyche. When they are walking down the sidewalk at the end is that "IT" following them or are you just so paranoid and its just a normal person. There's no real way to know if they actually killed it or not. Which i thought was a good move so they could make a sequel. There's no doubt though that the soundtrack made this movie. Such eerie music throughout, i loved it. Disasterpeace
Eric Thompson although a sequel would be great as long as the same directors/writers/producers and such are involved, I hope there isn't a direct sequel. I think this movie stands on its own INCREDIBLY well. I'd be all for the same people working on a totally new, creative horror movie though. It would actually be interesting if they implemented the same thing that AHS does with the same actors, but totally different scenario and story. I don't like AHS that much, but I love how they do that whole thing. I'm definitely interested in future projects from these people regardless.
What happens if it's a the sum?
I honestly didn't enjoy the movie. It was so bad people started leaving and/or laughing in the theatre. Although I do love the cinematography that has to do with it
Why do people get STD from this thing, its like a supernatural succubus
Wait, is this a movie review or a trailer review?
Come on, you can't have people walking behind you while doing this review :D
"official".....?
pfff it's obviously a skinwalker. it changes shapes, it walks....skin walker!
come on people. know your indian ghost stories