Nowadays it is difficult to find a horror film that really scares us, we live in a world where reality gives more fear than fiction, in recent years the cinema has threshed too certain ideas in horror films like exorcisms, resource of movies based on found footage have made it just see the advertisement for a horror movie makes you think it is more of the same. This is where independent cinema emerges to show us that we can still make horror movies that are worthwhile.
It Follows (2014) presents us with the premise that something (this It) follows you and will not rest until you capture and kill yourself, the only way to get rid of this thing is to pass it on to someone else by having sex with that person and waiting he or she is not captured or will return to you, the film cleverly uses this idea of sex in a manner contrary to that used in the 70's where young people having relationships were killed in most cases. The story focuses mainly on a young Jay Height to which her boyfriend passes this curse and explains that it is this thing and how to release it by passing it on to someone else, with the help of his friends she will seek the exit but soon realize that it is impossible to escape from this because although late in arriving, it always finds it.
The film uses resources different from those accustomed in the genre, despite being slow-paced, has the ability to build tension in the viewer by the lack of dialogues, in addition to the pictures and music used in some scenes are able to submerge In the plot that in moments you feel like shouting at the screen. We must remember that as an independent film does not have the same resources that a work of Hollywood could have, this is a merit in photography and the technique of filming directed David Robert Mitchell uses little accustomed resources in this type of films without Make them the most striking of the film.
The low points of the film could be some performances and also the slow pace of the film could bore that sector of the horror film that seeks action throughout the film, the end felt very rushed and even a little improvised, despite this end holds a kind of metaphor related to sexually transmitted diseases, It Follows has great potential in becoming something more over the years. It is a horror movie for young people that we must take into account, but with more quality to usual. If you like terror and want to see something different you should see It Follows.
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