It Follows

amerindie

Post-modern horror film. Teenagers are threatened by a monster, in human form, walking slowly but steadily toward them. If he/she/it touches them they die. Monster is transmitted through sexual intercourse.

There were no adults in the drama and no rationale for where this phenomenon came from or how it works. The monster is pure evil. But handicapped by its pace which allows for respites during the course of the story.

It seemed that the filmmakers parsed out the things that made films scary, cut out all the things that didn't and went entirely with the core. Cine was functional rather than artsy; sound/music score was mechanical,  very annoying and during scary scenes cranked up to 11. That said, some of the scenes were indeed scary because of the constant tension maintained. Plus the device of encouraging the audience to continually scan the background to see if someone is walking slowly toward the characters made us complicit.

So...clever but soulless.

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