New Horror: It Follows (2014)
A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.
(R, 101 min.)
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For 19-year-old Jay (Monroe), the fall should be about school, boys and weekends at the lake. Yet, after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter she suddenly finds herself plagued by nightmarish visions; she can't shake the sensation that someone, or something, is following her. As the threat closes in, Jay and her friends must somehow escape the horrors that are only a few steps behind. With a riveting central performance from Monroe and a strikingly ominous electronic score by Disasterpeace, IT FOLLOWS took the 2014 Cannes Film Festival by storm and will be released by RADiUS in the Winter of 2015. [https://itfollows-film.com/]
Starring: Starring: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Olivia Luccardi
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Genre(s): Horror, Mystery, Thriller
"'It Follows' is the creepiest movie in years."
— Tom Long, Detroit News
"'It Follows' is one of the scariest movies I've ever seen. It's also one of the most beautiful."
— Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
"An assured piece of filmmaking that works as both a horror movie and a coming-of-age story."
— Andrew Welch, Dallas Morning News
"A horror film that will haunt your waking hours for weeks. Every frame of It Follows is stamped with nameless dread."
— Matt Glasby, Total Film
"Despite borrowing cleverly from the best, It Follows still manages to feel like no other example in recent years - tender, remarkably ingenious and scalp-pricklingly scary."
— Tim Robey, The Telegraph
"Less a conventional scary horror film than a fitful, disturbing dream, It Follows is all about atmosphere, with an unsettling soundscape and dislocating widescreen imagery."
— Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
"Most of it evokes the attacks on lust that flourished in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and The Birds and that were rampant in the high school nightmare movies of the 1970s and 1980s."
— Wesley Morris, Grantland
"Where most teen horror movies revel in the peer group splintering and getting slaughtered, this one is more interested in how people gather around a loved one and shield her from harm."
— Ty Burr, Boston Globe
"It's a testament to how scary a movie It Follows is that for days after watching it, you walk around thinking up survival plans - should you hide, stay on the move forever, pass the haunting on to someone else?"
— Alison Willmore, BuzzFeed News
"Michael Gioulakis's cinematography, more art-house than genre with its eerie pools of light at night, brings an arrestingly static, tableau-like quality that echoes the highly staged scenarios of Gregory Crewdson's photos."
— Jonathan Romney, Film Comment Magazine
"Creepy, suspenseful and sustained, this skillfully made lo-fi horror movie plays knowingly with genre tropes and yet never winks at the audience, giving it a refreshing face-value earnestness that makes it all the more gripping."
— David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
"It's an undeniable triumph of mood - perfect for anyone who wants to practice clenching their fists for nearly 100 straight minutes - as well as an ambitious effort at reinventing horror by eschewing the genre's common tricks."
— Inkoo Kang, TheWrap
"It’s impossible adequately to describe the haunting intensity of It Follows: this is a film that makes a virtue of silence, that lives in the shadowy spaces between the splattery kill scenes that punctuate your average stalk-and-slasher."
— Tom Huddleston, Time Out
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