The Best Horror Film in Years

Rating: 9/10 (25 May 2015)

A young woman (Maika Monroe) is followed by an unknown supernatural force after getting involved in a sexual encounter.
This film hit hard with intense hype, and created two camps: a larger, more positive camp that loved the hype and the film. And a smaller camp, who were disappointed and thought it was much ado about nothing. While it would be hard to say that one side was right and one was wrong (we all have opinions), the larger camp seems to be winning.
And why not? We have a fresh, new idea here played out with great actors and some creepy effects. Beyond the involvement of Robert Kurtzman, this was almost completely a cast and crew of people whose names are not going to ring bells in the horror community. But they will now, because many people were terrified. There is something about a creature that slowly stalks that can be far more terrifying than the in-your-face machete-wielder.
Most clever is the concept that after the creature (or virus or whatever) is passed on, it could still return to kill you if it kills the next person in line. This makes the task of avoiding it so much more difficult. You could pass it along, but five years later, just as you calm down and get back to a normal routine... bam! It has worked through the chain back to you!
Worth singling out is the score from Disasterpiece (Rich Vreeland), Jeff Szpirglas has called a "nifty fusion" of John Carpenter and Krzysztof Penderecki. The music is one of the best things of the film, completing the hollow, lifeless mood of the setting. It moves in a simple, methodical direction, creating the tension that something is slowly creeping from a distance... or right behind you. That is pure, aural gold.
"It Follows" is, without a doubt, the best horror film to be released in years, and perhaps the best of the 21st century so far.