It Follows Offers Intriguing But Uneven Horror
A girl sprints out of the front door of her nondescript suburban house. The sun is setting. The girl is scantily clad and out of her mind with panic. She dashes into the middle of the street, stops, not sure what do do next. The girl’s father comes outside and asks her if everything is okay. Clearly it’s not, and the girl runs back into her house. She emerges again holding car keys. She hops in the car and tears out of there at high speed. We next see her on a moonlit deserted beach, babbling into a cellphone, telling her parents that she loves them. Finally, the sun has come up. The girl is on the beach, dead.
As movies go, It Follows has a hell of an opening. It grabs our attention with filmmaking that’s, while low-key, very self-assured. There’s a simple and effective hook, along with some solid performances. Unfortunately, there’s some dodgy FX, set pieces that go nowhere, and a tone that feels restrained when it should be bursting at the seams.
After the opening, we meet Jay (Maika Monroe) a suburban girl just on the cusp of adulthood. She’s got a date with Hugh (Jake Weary), a …read more
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