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It Follows

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It Follows
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Theatrical poster
Directed byDavid Robert Mitchell
Produced by
  • Rebecca Green
  • Laura D. Smith
  • David Robert Mitchell
  • David Kaplan
  • Erik Rommesmo
Written byDavid Robert Mitchell
Starring
Music byDisasterpeace
CinematographyMike Gioulakis
Edited byJulio C. Perez IV
Production
company
  • Animal Kingdom
  • Northern Lights Films
  • Two Flints
Distributed by

RADiUS-TWC

Dimension Films
Release dates
  • May 17, 2014 (Cannes)
  • March 13, 2015(United States)
Running time
100 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2 million
Box office$17.8 million[2]

It Follows is a 2014 American supernatural horror film written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, and starring Maika Monroe.[3] The plot follows a girl pursued by a supernatural entity after a sexual encounter.[4] Filmed in Detroit, Michigan, It Follows debuted at theCannes Film Festival in 2014 to significant critical acclaim. It was purchased by The Weinstein Company's subsidiary, RADiUS-TWC, for North American distribution. After receiving a successful limited release beginning March 13, 2015, the film received a wide release on March 27, 2015.

Plot[edit]

A girl flees her house in fear and drives to the beach where she tearfully tells her parents she loves them over the phone. By morning, she has been brutally murdered.

Jay Height, a carefree college student living in Michigan, goes on a movie date. Her date, Hugh, spots a young woman at the theater entrance, but Jay cannot see her. Hugh suddenly becomes afraid and demands he and Jay leave the theater. On another date, Hugh and Jay have sex in his car. Shortly afterwards, he incapacitates her with an inhalational anaesthetic. Jay wakes up tied to a wheelchair, and Hugh explains to her that, through sex, he has passed on a curse: an entity visible only to those cursed that can take on any number of appearances will pursue Jay at walking pace. If the entity catches her, it will kill her and then pursue the person who passed the curse to her. Hugh implores that Jay sleep with someone else as soon as she can to be rid of the entity. A naked woman approaches them from the nearby woods as they go. Hugh takes Jay back to her home and promptly leaves.

At school, Jay is approached by an old woman that others cannot see, and flees to her sister Kelly's workplace. Kelly and her friends, Yara and Paul, the latter having a crush on Jay, decide to spend the night to keep watch. That night, Paul hears the kitchen window break, but finds no intruder. When Jay checks, she is approached by a half-naked, bloodied woman. Jay flees to her upstairs bedroom in a panic, where Kelly and Paul find her. After trying to convince Jay that there is no one in the house, they inadvertently allow the entity, now in the form of a tall man with gouged-out eyes, to enter behind Yara. Jay flees the house to a playground, where her friends find her. Jay decides that she must find Hugh.

Greg drives Jay, Kelly, Yara, and Paul to Hugh's house, now abandoned, where they find a high school photo of him, and evidence of his efforts to avoid the entity. With the help of the high school, they discover that Hugh's real name is Jeff Redmond and trace him to his mother's address. Jeff informs them he believes he got the curse from a one-night stand with a woman he can't remember, and reiterates that Jay must have sex to get rid of it. They drive to Greg's lakehouse, where Jay learns to fire a gun. Later, while the group relaxes on the shore, the entity, taking up multiple forms, catches up to Jay and attacks her. Jay shoots and momentarily incapacitates the entity. She attempts to escape in Greg's car, but in her panic crashes in a cornfield. Jay wakes up in the hospital with a broken arm, surrounded by her mother and friends.

In the hospital, Jay and Greg have sex to pass on the curse. Later, Jay sees the entity in the form of Greg smash the window to Greg's own house and enter. Jay tries to warn the real Greg on the phone but nobody answers. She runs into the house and finds the entity in the form of Greg's mother knocking on his door. When Greg answers, it jumps him and appears to rape Greg as he dies. Once again the target, Jay flees and spends the night by the beach. The next morning, she sees three young men on a boat. She undresses and walks into the water. Back home, Paul expresses his feelings about Jay sleeping with Greg and not him; he offers to have sex with her, but she refuses.

The group plans to lure the entity into an abandoned swimming pool and electrocute it. The entity arrives and Jay realizes it has taken the appearance of her father. Instead of entering the pool, the entity picks up the electrical devices and throws them at Jay. Paul attempts to shoot the entity but cannot see it and accidentally wounds Yara. Kelly drapes a blanket over the entity, allowing Paul to shoot it in the head. It falls into the pool. Paul asks Jay if she can see if the entity is dead. Jay approaches the pool, which slowly fills with blood.

Jay and Paul have sex; afterwards, Paul drives past prostitutes in a seedy part of town. The wounded but healing Yara reads a passage from the Russian novel The Idiot in her hospital bed. Jay and Paul hold hands and walk down the sidewalk; someone walks behind them.

Cast[edit]

  • Maika Monroe as Jaime "Jay" Height
  • Keir Gilchrist as Paul
  • Olivia Luccardi as Yara
  • Lili Sepe as Kelly Height
  • Daniel Zovatto as Greg Hannigan
  • Jake Weary as Jeff Redmond / Hugh
  • Bailey Spry as Annie
  • Debbie Williams as Mrs. Height
  • Ruby Harris as Mrs. Redmond
  • Leisa Pulido as Mrs. Hannigan
  • Ele Bardha as Mr. Height

Additionally, Ingrid Mortimer, Alexyss Spradlin, Mike Lanier, Don Hails, and Erin Stone play various incarnations of the entity.

Development and production[edit]

Writer and director David Robert Mitchell conceived the film based upon recurring dreams he had in his youth about being followed: "I had it when I was very young, the nightmare. I had it several times and I still remember images from it. I didn't use those images for the film, but the basic idea and the feeling I used. From what I understand, it's an anxiety dream. Whatever I was going through at that time, my parents divorced when I was around that age, so I imagine it was something to do with that."[5] The role that sexual transmission plays came later, from Mitchell wanting something that could transfer between people.[6] Mitchell started writing the film in 2011 while working on a separate film he intended to be his second feature film; however, Mitchell struggled with this would-be second feature and decided to make It Follows as his next film instead.[7] While working on the film, Mitchell realized that the concept he was working on was tough to describe and thus refused to discuss the plot when asked what he was working on, reasoning later that "When you say it out loud, it sounds like the worst thing ever."[6]

The film was shot in 2013 in Detroit, Michigan.[8] Director David Robert Mitchell used wide-angle lenses when filming to give the film an expansive look,[8] and cited the works of George Romero and John Carpenter as influences on the film's compositions and visual aesthetic.[5]

Release[edit]

It Follows premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2014. It was released theatrically in France on February 4, 2015 and in the United Kingdom on February 27. It was given a limited release in the United Stateson March 13[9] and a wide release on March 27[10] in 1,200 theatres.[11] The film also received a limited release on March 27, 2015 in Canada by Mongrel Media.[12]

Interpretations[edit]

It Follows has sparked numerous interpretations from film critics in regard to the source of "it" and the film's symbolism.[5] Critics have interpreted the film as a parable on HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted infections,[13]and the social perceptions thereof; the sexual revolution;[14] and "primal anxieties" about intimacy.[15]

Director Mitchell stated: "I'm not personally that interested in where 'it' comes from. To me, it's dream logic in the sense that they're in a nightmare, and when you're in a nightmare there's no solving the nightmare. Even if you try to solve it."[5] Mitchell said that while Jay “opens herself up to danger through sex, sex is the one way in which she can free herself from that danger ... We’re all here for a limited amount of time, and we can’t escape our mortality...but love and sex are two ways in which we can – at least temporarily – push death away”.[13]

Mortality is a major theme of the film; the existential dread in the face of death's inevitability, and how people try (and fail) to postpone death. There are three quotations in the film that stress this theme. When Jay is in English class, her teacher is reading from T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and Yara reads two passages on the imminence of death from Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot.[16]

Soundtrack[edit]

It Follows (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Soundtrack album by Disasterpeace
ReleasedFebruary 2, 2015
GenreElectronic
Length44:43
LabelEditions Milan Music
Producer
  • Richard Glasser
  • JC Chamboredon
  • Stefan Karrer
Disasterpeace chronology
The Floor is Jelly
(2014)		It Follows
(2015)

The score was composed by Rich Vreeland, better known asDisasterpeace.[17] It was released on February 2, 2015 over Editions Milan Music with permission of The Weinstein Company with a digital booklet.[18] The digital version of the album went on sale March 10, 2015.

Track listing[edit]

All music composed by Rich Vreeland.[citation needed]

No.TitleLength
1."Heels"  2:46
2."Title"  2:17
3."Jay"  1:28
4."Anyone"  1:48
5."Old Maid"  2:32
6."Company"  4:12
7."Detroit"  1:20
8."Detritus"  2:18
9."Playpen"  1:28
10."Inquiry"  2:20
11."Lakeward"  1:34
12."Doppel"  5:25
13."Relay"  1:52
14."Greg"  3:28
15."Snare"  0:59
16."Pool"  1:35
17."Father"  5:01
18."Linger"  2:20
Total length:
44:43

Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

It Follows opened in limited theaters on March 13, 2015 in the United States and Canada. It earned $163,453 in its opening weekend from four theaters at an average of $40,863 per theater, making it the best limited opening for a film released the United States and Canada in 2015.[19]

The movie made its international debut in the United Kingdom on February 27, 2015 where it earned $573,290 (£371,142) on 190 screens for the #8 position. The following week, the film dropped two spots to #10 with a weekend gross of $346,005 (£229,927) from 240 screens.

As of April 5, the movie has a domestic gross of $8.9 million and an international gross of $1.6 million for a worldwide total of $10.3 million.[20][21][22]

Critical response[edit]

It Follows received widespread critical acclaim,[23] with critics praising the direction, acting, plot, score, cinematography, and old-fashioned scares. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a 96% "Certified Fresh" approval rating with an average score of 8.2/10, based on 171 reviews. The critical consensus states: "Smart, original, and above all terrifying, It Follows is the rare modern horror film that works on multiple levels — and leaves a lingering sting."[24] On review aggregator website Metacritic, the film has an average rating of 83/100 based on 37 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[25]

Peter Debruge of Variety gave a positive review, saying, "Starting off strong before losing its way in the end, this stylish, suspenseful chiller should significantly broaden Mitchell’s audience without disappointing his early supporters in the slightest."[26] David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter said, "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."[27] Tim Robey of The Telegraphgave the film five out of five stars and said, "With its marvellously suggestive title and thought-provoking exploration of sex, this indie chiller is a contemporary horror fan's dream come true."[28] Ignatiy Vishnevetsky ofThe A.V. Club said, "Despite all the fun-to-unpack ideas swirling around Mitchell’s premise, this is first and foremost a showcase for his considerable talents as a widescreen visual stylist, which are most apparent in the movie’s deftly choreographed, virtuoso 360 degree pans."[29] Mike Pereira of Bloody Disgusting described the film as a "creepy, mesmerizing exercise in minimalist horror" and labelled it "a classical horror masterpiece".[30]Michael Nordine of Vice also offered significant praise for the film, naming it "the best horror film in years".[31]Critic Mark Frauenfelder called the film "the best horror film in over a decade".[32]

Sequel[edit]

Following the film's success, Radius-TWC co-president Tom Quinn announced that the studio is looking into a possible sequel.[33] Quinn has expressed the idea of flipping the concept of the first film around, with Maika Monroe's Jay or another protagonist going down the chain to find the origin of "it".[34]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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