It Follows

David Robert Mitchell’s remarkable, terrifying shocker is a fresh and stimulating meditation on sexual paranoia, steeped in horror cinema history.

For 19-year-old Jay, an exploratory sexual encounter subsequently turns into a living nightmare when she begins to experience strange visions and the unfathomable sense that she is being followed. Terrified and helpless, Jay must find a way to pass on the curse that has seemingly befallen her.

Horror cinema has a long history of chastening the sexually active teenager. Taking the skewed morals of the slasher heyday and subverting them into a fresh and stimulating meditation on sexual paranoia, David Robert Mitchell’s remarkable shocker has the power to provoke and terrify in equal measures. The suburban milieu evokes John Carpenter’s Halloween, and the cyclical persistence of the horror recalls Hideo Nakata’s Ring, yet It Follows remains a defiantly original piece of work, with enough subtext to keep your mind buzzing for days.