It Follows

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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Jordan

Well this is awkward, got to see this film so early that there isn't even a trailer for me to post. This is a  brilliant 80's style throwback teen horror film with a great concept. A curse that is passed on through sexual transmission. It's not a subtle metaphor but it's a fun one.

You see when you get the curse an unknown creature that takes the form of random people that only the victim can see, stats walking towards you. Just casually walking, with a menacing look. You got two options to buy time, run really far away or pass it on to someone else. But once they are killed it'll come right back for you.

Delightful.

And it yields some surprisingly tense scenes. It's also not just a mater of this curse picking off a group of teenagers one by one. What makes it scary is that the friends can't even see it.

This was obviously a very low budget film, but despite some iffy sound recording the film really works and besides a few bigger section in the finale, it's made really simply and efficiently. And it has a great John Carpenter-esque synth soundtrack. The whole film has a timeless film, mixing decades of fashion and technology, so that it exists in a strange limbo of it's own.

So I have no idea if this is ever getting a release anywhere, but remember the title. It's rather fun.