Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

My thoughts exactly.

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

I think the themes go beyond the dangers of sex. I thought the movie was about the loss of innocence. The characters are in a transitional phase in their lives, and they are constantly reminiscing about childhood memories, first kiss, etc. Jay's story opens with an idyllic scene of a young girl floating in a pool on a warm summer day, we all probably have a similar memory. The film itself has a feeling of nostalgia flowing through it, it's almost like a dream, half reality, half memory. After Jay gets the curse the melodic, synth score turns pulsing and industrial. The kids wander through scenes of urban decay, abandoned and crumbling houses. The location of Detroit was quite deliberate, I suspect.

I also wonder if this film could be the horror genre's answer to Shame, a film about sexual addiction. Once Jay gets cursed, her sexual encounters remind me of Fassbender's liaisons in that movie, he's not enjoying himself, sex is just a compulsive act for him. Similar to Jay, she starts having sex just for survival, not out of love, but she feels she needs to have sex to pass the curse.

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

I can see why the kid was a turn off in Babadook. He was very annoying and you wanted to strangle him. As a guy that isn't a huge kid fan, I was a bit annoyed. But the story itself was really good.

As for It Follows, if I hadn't heard it was the next big horror film, I would put it slightly above the recent teen horror films (Ouija, The Gallows, etc). I say that because the story itself was pretty cool, but the characters and ending just pissed me off. There's a lot of horror films, for me, that are in the middle road. I mean, I may watch it again, but nothing that I would tell friends to see.

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

Yeah, I figured it was about a nympho in the making. Miserable sex that she has to have, no matter how many lives she ruins. :lol:

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

We watched it last night and overall, I thought it was pretty good. Like others here, I don't really care about the origin of "it," but I felt that the movie made some random decisions. Like when was this movie supposed to take place? The entire movie felt like a 70s or 80s setting, but then they throw in the late model Nissan Sentra at the very beginning of the movie and the little device that the sister was reading the book on. And why would Jay drive for hours and then just park in the forest and sleep on the hood of her car? And who was the first chick that died? Just some random girl?

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

I assumed it was a girl that Hugh slept with to pass on the curse. When he found out that she died he had to seek out Jay and pass it on to her.

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

Awesome analysis... thanks.

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

Liked it, but the lead actress mumbled too fucking much.

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

Indeed. Would bang very, very hard. Would bang until I was cursed.

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

Jay was molested/raped/abused in some way by her father.

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

I'm not sure how one could absolutely love one and hate the other. Both films are more or less cut from the same cloth.

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

Not important.

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

What makes you think that? The movie doesn't give any evidence of it, and she keeps a picture of him on her bedroom mirror. For all we know, her parents are simply divorced or he is dead.

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

She's a good actress, but I agree, she can be a bit of a marble mouth.

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

Read what Richc2 said on the previous page....pretty much sums it up.

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

I have watched this movie. It's a very unique movie, slow but worth a watch.

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

Saw it last night and I have to say that it makes a lot of the more recent horror films look like dog shit. Loved the old old school vibe that reminded me of the creepy 1983 film Sole Survivor in its use of atmospherics and score. Don't let the cheesy trailer fool you, it's a good film. The Code Red dvd is OOP.

4/5

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Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

interesting...i'm still not sure what happened but it keep me interested and it was creepy! Although I don't know why she would drive all the way to the woods in the dark, and alone, and then sleep on top of the car's hood. lol. that's insanity.

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

I got the Blu Ray from the library last night, watched it up until the ending of the indoor pool scene and *POP* the lamp on my TV blew out. Having no other devices that can play Blu Rays, I finished the film this afternoon when I got a DVD copy from the library. I didn't hate it. I liked the concept, what it was going for, how well it was crafted, but I just didn't find it scary. I felt the exact same way about The Babadook. (At least this film didn't have any characters whose heads I'd like to hold underwater. :) )

It's a testament to the film that I want to watch it again with the commentary on before I turn it back in.

That's probably on me for buying the hype each and every time. By now I should learn to keep my expectations in check. "Scariness" is a very subjective metric. Maybe all of those critics from the pull quotes were truly frightened. I wasn't at all and that's what I primarily ask for from a horror film. I enjoyed the aforementioned Starry Eyes, but didn't find it particularly chilling, either. I wasn't as let down, though, because I went into it without being exposed to an onslaught of marketing trumping up how it was the next Exorcist. So that kinda proves your point, I guess. In a perfect world we'd see every film in a vacuum.

I'm surprised no one here has brought up Quentin Tarantino's issues with the film playing fast and loose with its mythology:

http://www.avclub.com/article/quenti...zy-myth-224437

I kind of agree with his nitpicks. (Sticking to a set of rules is also something I appreciate from a horror flick.)

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

I think there's a certain elegance in the director's response, which is that the rules of the film are delivered by a character who's pieced the rules together through encounters with the entity, not someone with a complete knowledge of exactly what the entity is or isn't capable of. So if "It" can do more than we thought, that's because the guy who told us the rules never saw "It" do those things.

I thought the film was very good but not quite great. Still, I have to hand it to any director who makes a horror film based around dread and not jump scares. The simplicity of the film is its strength, along with the awesome retro score. The themes of sexual anxiety and the lingering consequences were well serviced by the film's conceit. I also appreciated that much of the storytelling was visual and relied on the viewer's ability to connect the dots.

It's got some flaws, aside from breaking its own rules. The time period being hazy was fine, but the stupid clamshell Kindle that the sister has completely took me out of the movie. I spent so much time thinking about what the hell that thing is and why she's the only person who uses one. It was an odd little detail that added nothing to the film but managed to detract a lot. Some of the performances were also kind of eh, but the main girl was great.

Overall, I liked it a lot.

Also, I agree that it doesn't matter what "it" is or where it came from, but I definitely thought of a succubus, especially since we see that it basically fucks people to death.

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

The clam shell thingy was a metaphor for birth control pills. She's one of the few characters that didn't have sex at all in the film. Her distraction kept her alive.


And that's just me guessing, because I have not seen the film since theaters.

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

If that's what they were going for then I REALLY didn't like it.

Also that doesn't really add up to me. Birth control pills don't stop you from having sex, nor are they a distraction.

Re: It Follows (2014, D: David Robert Mitchell) S: Maika Monroe
 

The passage she reads from The Idiot is about a guy who believes there's a monster just out of reach that always want to eat him, but never does. I think.