It Follows (2014)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 100m
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Cast: Maika Monroe, Lili Sepe, Jake Weary, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto
Synopsis:
After making out with an older boy, a teenage girl becomes trapped in a pernicious endgame, wherein she is followed and killed by a mutating entity unless she passes the curse on to someone else.
Review:
Very much like the VHS cassette in Ringu (1998) (qv.) therefore, except that there is no comforting explanation - or remedy, only a waiting game. The young director makes much of this element of suspense, and plays on the dread that something will happen, only we do not know when or in what form it will come. Equally, he paces out the attack sequences to keep us edgy. The trick with such remorseless supernaturalism is that there is no way out, of course, and the film's solution is a neatly open ending, though one where the keen-eyed viewer will easily spy a nemesis. Unsettling short film fare, shrewdly extended to feature length. Happily no sequel followed.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 100m
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Cast: Maika Monroe, Lili Sepe, Jake Weary, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto
Synopsis:
After making out with an older boy, a teenage girl becomes trapped in a pernicious endgame, wherein she is followed and killed by a mutating entity unless she passes the curse on to someone else.
Review:
Very much like the VHS cassette in Ringu (1998) (qv.) therefore, except that there is no comforting explanation - or remedy, only a waiting game. The young director makes much of this element of suspense, and plays on the dread that something will happen, only we do not know when or in what form it will come. Equally, he paces out the attack sequences to keep us edgy. The trick with such remorseless supernaturalism is that there is no way out, of course, and the film's solution is a neatly open ending, though one where the keen-eyed viewer will easily spy a nemesis. Unsettling short film fare, shrewdly extended to feature length. Happily no sequel followed.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 100m
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Cast: Maika Monroe, Lili Sepe, Jake Weary, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto
Synopsis:
After making out with an older boy, a teenage girl becomes trapped in a pernicious endgame, wherein she is followed and killed by a mutating entity unless she passes the curse on to someone else.
Review:
Very much like the VHS cassette in Ringu (1998) (qv.) therefore, except that there is no comforting explanation - or remedy, only a waiting game. The young director makes much of this element of suspense, and plays on the dread that something will happen, only we do not know when or in what form it will come. Equally, he paces out the attack sequences to keep us edgy. The trick with such remorseless supernaturalism is that there is no way out, of course, and the film's solution is a neatly open ending, though one where the keen-eyed viewer will easily spy a nemesis. Unsettling short film fare, shrewdly extended to feature length. Happily no sequel followed.