It Follows

Director: David Robert Mitchell

2014 / 100min / DCP

Mitchell’s Detroit-shot sophomore film, winner of the Next Wave award at Austin’s Fantastic Fest in 2014 and the breakout horror phenomenon of the following year, is a work of potent sexual dread, in which erotic congress transmits something much worse than a dose of clap: the attentions of a spectral, shape-shifting entity that pursues the afflicted with methodical single-mindedness, a pursuit that ends in terrible carnage. Enigmatic and unsettling, its thick atmosphere of paranoia incalculably added to by a soundtrack courtesy electronic musician Disasterpiece (Rich Vreeland), per Pitchfork “a score that announces when something is about to happen, only to suddenly upend expectations and leave the room on edge.”

Distributor: Lionsgate

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