It Follows REVIEW by @killfillm on Instagram

Rating: 10/10 (6 May 2015)

**VERY MINOR SPOILERS IN LAST PARAGRAPH**
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IT FOLLOWS .
Written & Directed by David Robert Mitchell .
So horror movies are part of what makes me able to function in everyday life and after 2014 being a not so great year for horror....I needed something bad. If it weren't for Oculus and The Babadook I probably wouldn't have made it to 2015. After all I've heard about this, my expectations were high. Well, It Follows surpassed my already extremely high expectations by a mile.
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So It Follows is about Jay, a sweet girl who has sex with a guy, and after having sex he reveals what he just got her into. This monster, demon, supernatural force, STD, whatever "IT" is hunts you down and kills you. The only way to get rid of IT is to pass it on by having sex, but you'll never be rid of it. It will just follow down the line and eventually IT will be after you. IT can be anyone anywhere, IT doesn't stop, IT Follows.
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This is one of the most unique and coolest horror movies I've ever seen. David Mitchell, the directing was pure insanity. Its masterful. Every single shot looks like a beautiful painting. The cinematography in this is straight Eye Porn. The score, probably one of my favorite scores of all time. The musical score in It Follows defined and made the movie. Without it this movie wouldn't have been as great. Maika Monroe was phenomenal and all her teenage friends were too and all really likable. Which is different because usually when there's a group of teens in a horror movie they're 25yr old college jocks and whores who have half a brain and just want to have sex in the Woods. It Follows dodged every cliché and made a very likable group of characters, that actually looked like teenagers, with an incredible story. What I really love about this, although it's a horror, it feels a lot like a terrifying adventure that you're on, but you're just hanging out with these cool people adventuring place to place as they run from IT. It's not the scariest film ever, but it's very suspenseful and thrilling and there were scenes that were completely terrifying.
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Is it a perfect film? No. The way it is marketed and the way "IT" is in the film, "it doesn't think. It doesn't stop. It doesn't give up." Well, there's a point in the film where they break their own code. "IT" thinks. Without spoiling....the pool scene. Also, the ending was a bit disappointing to me. This may be a bit of a spoiler so if you haven't seen it just skip to the grade at the bottom: the way it ended, I feel like they never really made any progress the entire movie. Like they started at Point A, and by the end, they were still at Point A and I wanted to see them get to Point B. All that said,this was still a very unique horror movie, and its one of the best horrors i've seen in years. If you're not a horror fan, the cinematography and score alone make this worth a watch.
It Follows gets an: A .
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