It Follows (USA: David Robert Mitchell, 2014)

 

It Follows (USA: David Robert Mitchell, 2014: 100 mins)

It Follows may boast a doozy of a high-concept scenario that referentially riffs on all manner of horror subgenres, but the steady hand of director David Robert Mitchell ensures no resting on conceptual gimmickry. Anonymous monsters are in solemn pursuit of suburban high-schoolers, a curse only shed – and passed on – through sex. But this is no puritanical cautionary tale, its metaphorical ambiguities enveloping the teenage experience in an all-consuming blanket of dread. The stately march of its menace coupled with Mitchell’s gliding camera instils an inexorable terror. Not for nothing does water serve as a recurring motif in a film that itself feels submerged in a pressurised state of liminal arrest. – Matthew Thrift

Abrams, Simon. "It Follows." Roger Ebert (March 13, 2015)

Barone, Matt. "TIFF: Sex Is a Scary Killer in This Early Contender for 2015's Best Horror Movie." Complex (September 9, 2014)

Crucchiola, Jordan. "What Makes the New Horror Film It Follows So Good?" Wired (March 17, 2015)

Dalton, Ben. "It Follows: Horror in a Straight Line." Intensities #8 (January 2016): 88-93.

Digging Deeper. "It Follows: The American Nightmare." (Posted on Youtube: September 23, 2015)

Drumm, Diana. "Interview: David Robert Mitchell on Making It Follows." Slant (March 19, 2015)

Eggert, Brian. "It Follows." Deep Focus Review (March 27, 2015)

Leeder, Murray. "David Robert Mitchell's It Follows (2014) - The Limits of Knowledge." Horror. ed. Simon Bacon. Peter Lang, 2019: 11-18. [Professor has copy of the book.]

McKee, Lucky. "Talks David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows." Talkhouse (January 29, 2016) ["The director of an indie horror classic shares his appreciation for a new classic – and explains why it made him want to punch a kitten in the balls."]

Muncer, Mike and Tim Robey. "Slashers Pt. 13: It Follows." The Evolution of Horror (December 8, 2017)

Prewitt, Zach. "The Best Horror Cinema of the 21st Cinema." (Posted on Vimeo: October 2016)

Renée, V. "This is What Supernatural Horror Film It Follows is Really About (Besides Scary Sex)." No Film School (February 27, 2016)

Rossi, Jason Di. "It Follows." Final Cut (April 17, 2015)

Salisbury, Brian. "Q&A: It Follows Director David Robert Mitchell On Turning Nightmare into Magic." Film School Rejects (March 30, 2015)

Samoylenko, V. "Defying STIgma in It Follows." Monstrum 1.1 (April 2018)

Visvikis, Dylan. "A Pretentious Film Student Analysis of It Follows." Flicks/Kicks/Politics (July 12, 2016)

Wethington, Nicole. "It Follows and the Power of Sex." The Artifice (May 20, 2015)

Yanick, Joseph. "It Follows from Video Gaming: An interview with Soundtrack Composer Disasterpeace." Noisey (April 7, 2015)

 IT FOLLOWS, as a Slasher Video Essay from Haylie Kohn on Vimeo.