It Follows
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Cast: Maika Monroe, Lily Sepe, Jake Weary, Keir Gilchrist
When a young woman experiences sexuality for the first time, she inadvertently falls prey to a malevolent entity that invades her body and leaves her powerless to free herself from a nightmare that only she can see.
One of the most significant and unnerving aspects of this film may be found in the entity itself. Because the entity possesses the ability to transform itself into any individual, the victim is rendered completely powerless because they are unable to identify who or what is haunting them. The most unnerving aspect of the entity is although the victims believe they can be purged of the entity by passing it on to another host, in truth, even when the entity is passed on to another host, a part of the entity’s essence lingers like a malignant stain in the host that it last possessed.
The entity’s greatest advantage is fear. Fear in the sense that the entity's victims are literally shackled to a life of fear and paranoia because while the entity's movements are slow, when it does manage to ensnare a host, the victims are unable to protect themselves because the entity's attack is both instantaneous and deadly. The victim's nightmare is made worse by the fact that whoever possesses the entity is, in a sense, utterly and completely alone in their suffering because the entity can only be seen by the individual who serves as the entity’s host.
“It Follows” is quite possibly the most brilliant horror film that has been brought to life onscreen in the last decade. What makes this film such a worthy addition to the horror genre is not the gore and cheap, contrived scares that are so often used in other horror films to evoke fear, but rather a brilliant marriage of exceptional casting, a dark and suspenseful atmosphere, a chilling musical score, and an intelligent and well-told story that draws the viewer in and allows them to experience for themselves the fear that Jay and her friends face as they fight an enemy they cannot understand. If you enjoy a good horror film, then “It Follows” is definitely a film worthy of your time.
© 2013 – 2016 Keriane Kellogg. All rights reserved.
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Cast: Maika Monroe, Lily Sepe, Jake Weary, Keir Gilchrist
When a young woman experiences sexuality for the first time, she inadvertently falls prey to a malevolent entity that invades her body and leaves her powerless to free herself from a nightmare that only she can see.
One of the most significant and unnerving aspects of this film may be found in the entity itself. Because the entity possesses the ability to transform itself into any individual, the victim is rendered completely powerless because they are unable to identify who or what is haunting them. The most unnerving aspect of the entity is although the victims believe they can be purged of the entity by passing it on to another host, in truth, even when the entity is passed on to another host, a part of the entity’s essence lingers like a malignant stain in the host that it last possessed.
The entity’s greatest advantage is fear. Fear in the sense that the entity's victims are literally shackled to a life of fear and paranoia because while the entity's movements are slow, when it does manage to ensnare a host, the victims are unable to protect themselves because the entity's attack is both instantaneous and deadly. The victim's nightmare is made worse by the fact that whoever possesses the entity is, in a sense, utterly and completely alone in their suffering because the entity can only be seen by the individual who serves as the entity’s host.
“It Follows” is quite possibly the most brilliant horror film that has been brought to life onscreen in the last decade. What makes this film such a worthy addition to the horror genre is not the gore and cheap, contrived scares that are so often used in other horror films to evoke fear, but rather a brilliant marriage of exceptional casting, a dark and suspenseful atmosphere, a chilling musical score, and an intelligent and well-told story that draws the viewer in and allows them to experience for themselves the fear that Jay and her friends face as they fight an enemy they cannot understand. If you enjoy a good horror film, then “It Follows” is definitely a film worthy of your time.
© 2013 – 2016 Keriane Kellogg. All rights reserved.