They rob you of your sleep. Bizarrely, Jay sees him standing atop the roof, and not actively pursuing her, which is out of character. Jay's sister, Kelly and her friends, Paul Bolduan and Yara Davis, agree to help and spend the night in Jay and Kelly's house. It Follows Spoiler Bomb: The Director Explains All Those Twists and Shocks By Kyle Buchanan Photo: RADiUS/TWC It Follows has quickly become the horror hit of the year, expanding into over 1,200. (Which I want. uses wide angles and a disorienting setting to unsettle before delivering a one-two punch scare for the ages. It's the precise type of scene that would otherwise allow the viewer a moment to soothe their rapid pulse. It's quiet and unassuming, out there somewhere in the world, slowly walking towards you. This scene is one of the most horrifying of the movie, so visceral, so brutal, so disturbed and so difficult to mention that after my boyfriend and I walked out of the movie for the first time, we didn't even talk about it for most of our conversation. Potentially late summer/early fall, sure, but hold on. 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. Read More: Is It Follows Based on a True Story? Hugh says it's always walking towards its next victim, but at one point, the monster is just standing still on Jay's roof. It Follows is a 2014 American supernatural psychological horror film written and directed by David Robert Mitchell. Also from the Detroit area and It made the movie that much creepier. From Greg's death, we know that the Follower finds you, and then brutally rapes and murders you. Seeing as how Jay and Paul are seen walking down the street holding hands in the films closing scene, it looks like the two end up together. The entity didn't just enter her home to claim her, but it exploited her trauma, too.It's the disheveled woman's visual that makes this scare so powerful, as Mitchell employs conventional tactics to induce goosebumps between the ominous music stings and slowed down focus on the intended victim. ", Now for the biggest question of all, what is It? Unsubscribe at any time. In an interview with Yahoo Movies, director David Robert Mitchell clarified that Hugh's understanding of the monster's "rules" are just based on his experiences, and they're perhaps inaccurate. This next form appears in Jay's home, proving nowhere is safe for her. Shortly after he gets the curse, there's a scene when Greg is hanging out and flirting with a group of girls. Horror movie fans lovers, straight-up warning you there are a lot of spoilers for It Follows (2015) in this review. The audience doesn't get to see the entity's initial appearance in It Followsbecause Jay doesn't, and she's the focal character. Jay tells the truth to her friends, and they believe her, helping her fight a monster that they themselves literally can't see. The monster in It Followsseems to enjoy using naked forms to go after its prey, which makes sense given its links to sexuality. Staring out of the classroom window, she spies an older woman in a hospital gown crossing the grounds, seemingly unseen by those around her.Highly disturbed, Jay's friends agree to spend the night to keep her company. Hes obviously absent from the house. Greg has sex with Jay in the hospital, as he does not believe the entity exists. If anyone noticed why the camera lingered for so long on Hugh/Jeff's mom when we finally met her, THAT IS WHY. Its even got a sweet icemaker in the door. From what I understand, it's an anxiety dream. This scene is very intense and is built up over the course of a few minutes as the protagonist desperately tries to prevent it. It wasn't the best movie I've ever seen but I thought they did a good job and it's worth a watch. Next:Every Form IT Takes in the 1990 Miniseries. [8], 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 made It Follows as his next film instead. Greg remains skeptical of the whole situation and eventually has sex with Jay. A teenage boy is murdered by the central antagonist, while it takes the form of his mother. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Even though Pauls crush on Jay is evident from the start, the latter is clearly not interested in dating her childhood friend, who is a far cry from the hunky boys she seemingly goes out with. So Yara's quote clearly demonstrates how both these works have mortality on their mind. 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. It Follows (2014) 1.9s Oh, and Greg's mom, Parks and Recreation (2009) - S02E07 Greg Pikitis 1s I'm Greg's mom. After Jay and Hugh have sex for the first time, Hugh abandons her, and Jay learns that he's given her a terrible curse. So what's up? Is she stupid? Greg Strasz . She keeps saying There he is! When her sister Kelly asks what it looks like, her response is: I dont wanna tell you. Upon revealing IT, we see a normal-looking man in his late 30s-early 40s. In fact, modern technology is mostly absent throughout the film except for this thing. And then, once death has you, you're forced to meet your maker. Cord phones abound! Yara stands relaxed and sleepily in the doorway of Jay's bedroom, inquiring about the commotion. Most viewers seem to agree this girl is Annie, the girl who's brutally killed by the entity in It Follows' opening, and likely the last person Hugh passed the curse to before Jay. There are other clues given to us purely through storytelling and small details rather than having the characters get right up in your face and shout what youre supposed to know. Hugh drives Jay home and flees. We subsequently see Jay pass the curse on to Paul by having sex with him. At school, Jay sees an old woman in a hospital gown walking towards her, invisible to others. Try giving the film the benefit of the doubt. We imagine that would be a movie called Follow It, which would presumably tell the story of Jay working her way up the chain, trying to track down the originator of the curse. She runs into the house and finds the entity in the form of Greg's half-naked mother knocking on his door. All the TVs are either clunky CRT units from the 1980s-1990s or even older models with rabbit-ears and dials. When you watch It Follows, you might have a hard time figuring out in what decade it's supposed to be set. It may be that Yara's soul has been displaced from her body, taking the form of "It." In a small scene later after Jay and Greg have sex, Greg approaches Jay's house, and Paul, Jay, and Yara are sitting out on the lawn. It's not only a movie about fear, or death, but also about shame. , and this critical double-scare scene demonstrates how not much else gets under our skin quite like visceral reminders of our fleeting mortality. However, the film does offer clues as to what It can and cannot do, so lets check those out. It didn't rape Greg to death. If that's all a fan gets from this film, there's obviously quite a bit that they're missing. The camera slows down, and all music fades, save for the drumming beat, as Jay walks into the kitchen. A collection of It Follows nude scenes, categorized by nudity type, the film or tv show it appears in and the different types of nudity. It Follows: Explained (Plot Analysis And Ending) Zaraki Kenpachi September 7, 2021 The first film of It Follows was released in 2014, and many other horror movies have since been made based on its story. This includes furniture, decor, and wallpaper. From the moment Jay's neighbor Greg began offering her help, it was clear he was attracted to her. The monster seemingly defeated, Jay and Paul go home and have sex. Let's run down the evidence for each one. The woman edges closer as she urinates. This time the woman is topless but also looks to have been brutally beaten, even to the point of missing teeth and she also urinates on the floor. His identity is also confirmed by a family photo. Bonus: if you pay attention to the polaroids tacked to Jays bedroom mirror, theres a photo of her and her father. It's been a core element of horror films like John Carpenter'sHalloween and theFriday the 13thmovies for so long that nowadays, this trope rarely appears unironically. Height, Jaime and Kelly's mother, Ruby Harris as Mrs. Redmond, Jeff's mother, This page was last edited on 30 January 2023, at 00:15. Alone, Jay cautiously makes her way to the kitchen to see the damage for herself. Though it is left unclear whether Paul passes on the curse, in the end, it is irrelevant because we see the entity following him and Jay in the films closing scene. Here are the most notable ones: Thats just a few of the weird time discrepancies I noticed, but lets touch on that last one. A demon, perhaps, but it doesn't take a film student at Tisch to see that The Follower (as I'll call it) is a metaphor for something. Height's fate isn't explained in It Follows but he's clearly not in the picture anymore. Sometimes, it seems like its only motivation is to get closer to you. It works to set the mood for the film's biggest scare, a terrifying scene that delivers not one but two potent scares without a second to spare for the audience to catch their breath. However, what is possibly the most sinister aspect of the murderous entity is that one is never truly safe from it. She takes her parents' car and drives to the beach, where she tearfully tells her father over the phone that she loves him. 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. That tendency may not be entirely born of sadism, as in a few cases it also seems to be trying to confuse its victim long enough to get caught. A ghost? When Jay gets cursed after a sexual encounter, she finds herself being stalked and tries to grapple with the sinister entity that keeps changing its appearance and showing up unexpectedly. Following The Babadook (2014), The Conjuring (2013), and Insidious (2010), It Follows is the next big thing when it comes to horror. This is what made me look for more anachronisms throughout the film and oh boy there are a lot. IT cant walk through walls! but isnt it more interesting to learn this the same way Jay does by pure investigation? Jeff explains that the entity began pursuing him after a one-night stand and that Jay can pass it on by having sex with someone else. It's the precise type of scene that would otherwise allow the viewer a moment to soothe their rapid pulse. [Crewdson's] photographs have the same kind of surreal suburban imagery that we wanted for It Follows."[11]. It kicks in again as an almost unnaturally tall figure emerges from the dark behind Yara. as a compelling horror film owes much to Mitchell's use of wide shots and distinct visual style and production design. [22][23] Peter Debruge of Variety gave an overall 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. Greg Hannigan. Jeffs mom is TOTALLY rocking the 1980s Mom look, and not ironically. Maika Monroe stars as Jay Height, a carefree teen whose life is upended thanks to a bizarre sexual encounter with her new boyfriend Hugh (Jake Weary). While explaining the death curse rules, Hugh points out a naked woman approaching in the distance, at a slow but steady clip. But perhaps it's because he inadvertently passed the curse along to someone else first. All of this, combined with carefully choreographed terror that can come from anywhere in the wide-open spaces, induces agoraphobic dread. Maybe sometimes it disappears for months, and other times it shows up everywhere you go, appearing suddenly and without warning. 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. It can look like a stranger or someone she knows, only she can see it, and if it ever catches her, she will die. By relying on her support structure, Jay's friends help carry the burden of her curse, unlike Hugh, who tries to go it alone and ends up passing his trauma along to someone else. Jay tries to warn the real Greg by telephone, but he does not answer. But not only this: it's the shame that follows you for the rest of your life, that shame reminding you that death is always around the corner, closer, closer. It jumped on him, killed him by some method we don't see, and then just kind of dry humped him. It's likely that Annie, the girl killed at the beginning of the film, was a former lover of his that he sacrificed to the creature. The following week, the film dropped two spots to #10 with a weekend gross of $346,005 (229,927) from 240 screens. However, with It Follows, you have to get a little more creative if you want to know more. If it catches Jay, it will kill her and pursue the previous person to have passed it on: Hugh, who is passing it to Jay as leverage. Later, when explaining Jays attack to Gregs mom, shes seen pouring liquor into her coffee. Yara stands relaxed and sleepily in the doorway of Jay's bedroom, inquiring about the commotion. If it's about trauma, the trauma is still with them. Not hearing Jay's pleas, Greg opens the door and the entity pounces on him. And it works. It doesnt exist. Jay and Kelly are much younger, but the man to their mothers left is the EXACT man IT was portraying. It stars Maika Monroe as a young woman who is pursued by a supernatural entity after a sexual encounter and must have sex with another individual to avoid it. Yara is that annoying friend whos ALWAYS on their phone no I am not going to explain to you what just happened during the movie youre SUPPOSED to be watching PUT YOUR DARN PHONE AWAY except wait, thats not a phone! We know that the entity is not a ghost and has a physical form. The first formIt Follows' entity takes after Hugh has passed the curse on to Jay Height (Maika Monroe) is of a naked middle-aged woman. Theyre meant to alert him in case anything enters. If Greg did, it was probably on accident. stunt utility . Of course, that's much debate about whether the entity is even a demon. In this edition: It Follows uses wide angles and a disorienting setting to unsettle before delivering a one-two punch scare for the ages. The layered clues continue if we consider that the man at the pool house looks exactly the same age as the one in the photographs. She's the naked lady. But you could read things another way. Yes, mom? And given that he isn't actually in the rest of the film, the odds are likely that he's either divorced from their mother or dead. )Writer/Director David Robert Mitchell knows how to build a chilling atmosphere. [4] A slow-burning scene from the atmospheric horror film "It Follows" (2014).http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3235888/Subscribe for more powerful, inventive, and art. It Follows is about abuse. The police can find no trace of the naked woman or Hugh, as they discover it was a fake identity. It's never stated who he is, but it seems like a pretty safe assumption that this man is Jay and Kelly's father. Is it a demon? It Follows Horror 2015 1 hr 40 min English audio R CC Buy or rent After a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, 19-year-old Jay becomes trapped by a vicious curse - "it" is following her, and. Finally, when Jay sees Greg dying, the motif on her T-shirt, a blonde girl and a ball, is seen clearly. The monster is still with them, in one form or another, because even if the literal monster is no more, death is still coming for them, and until that happens, this experience will always follow them. It Follows (2014) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Inside the house, Jay sees a disheveled, urinating, half-naked woman walking toward her and runs upstairs to the others, who cannot see the entity. For example, windows appearing in offices where there couldnt have been a window, Jack Torrance inexplicably reading an issue of Playgirl magazine before his job interview it goes on. If it's about death, then death will still get our heroes eventually. It looks like a vintage makeup compact but seems to act like a smartphone-combo-e-reader Yara even uses it later as a light source, the way you would a phone. 'It Follows' Disorients With Atmosphere So It Can Set Up A Perfect Scare. However, when the entity in the form of a middle-aged man arrives, it begins to fling appliances into the pool without getting in. After a successful limited release beginning on March 13, 2015, the film had a wide release on March 27, 2015. When "It" finally arrives, things don't go exactly as our heroes planned. Jay sees the entity having sex with a dead Greg, then flees by car and spends the night outdoors. One of the more curious forms the entity takes comes after the beach hut, as it becomes a teenage girl and chases after Jay,who responds by hopping into Greg's car. It was the so-upset-I-feel-sick kind of . We then see her sitting outside her car in a clearing, talking to her parents on the phone. So what's this old cliche doing here? The moment of relief gets punctuated by a music sting and the startling appearance of a tall man from the darkened room just behind Yara. Contents 1 Description 2 Biography 3 Personality 4 Gallery 5 Navigation Description Finally, she convinces her sister Kelly and their friends of the danger, and they take shelter in her neighbor Gregs lakeside hideout. Therefore, we can piece together that the entity has taken on the likeness of the girls father. 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