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Rating: 9 stars

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All movies seen on 09/19/2014

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It Follows (2015)

Directed by David Robert Mitchell

Horror | Suspense

Most recently watched by jeneot33, ashe5k, zombiefreak, sleestakk, schofizzy, Javitron, archstanton43

Overview

When carefree teenager Jay sleeps with her older boyfriend for the first time, she learns that she is the latest recipient of a fatal curse that is passed from victim to victim via sexual intercourse. Death, Jay learns, will creep inexorably toward her as either a friend or a stranger. Jay’s friends don’t believe her seemingly paranoid ravings, until they too begin to see the phantom assassins and band together to help her defend herself.

Rated R | Length 101 minutes

Actors

Maika Monroe | Keir Gilchrist | Daniel Zovatto | Jake Weary | Olivia Luccardi | Lili Sepe | Bailey Spry | Carollette Phillips | Loren Bass | Charles Gertner | Debbie Williams | Ruby Harris | Leisa Pulido | D.J. Oliver | Linda Boston | Ingrid Mortimer | Kourtney Bell | Alexyss Spradlin | Mike Lanier | Claire Sloma | Scott Norman | Erin Stone | Joanna Bronson | Don Hails | Ele Bardha | Caitlin Burt | Heather Fairbanks | Vincent Hogarth | Christopher Hohman | Rich Vreeland

Viewing History (seen 4 times)

Viewing Notes

You can blindly throw a rock in any direction and hit a film that pays homage to John Carpenter, but you’d be hard-pressed to find one that manages to transcend that to become a great film on its own merits. It Follows is definitely in that transcendent category. It manages to maintain a constant, at times physically exhausting, tension throughout most of the film, bolstered by an ominous soundtrack (which is where a lot of the Carpenter comparison comes from).

This was the second best film of the fest for me (and held the top spot for most of it) and a movie I can’t wait to watch again with my sons.

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