Horror is going back to its roots!

Rating: 8/10 (27 February 2015)

Until this week It Follows was a film I hadn't even heard of, then I saw the overwhelming attention it had received and I actually felt like this would be a horror film that my stick with me, turns out I was right, this is the best horror experience since The Babadook and it truly terrified me, in fact as I am writing this review I am getting shivers because it is a film that relies on psychological horror rather than jump scares (it had one or two but they were well executed at least), and the more I think about it, the more I like it.
The film follows Jay, who is a girl who has everything going for her, until a sexual encounter changes everything. A curse was passed to her like a sexually transmitted disease and the only way she can get rid of this curse is by sleeping with somebody else. As the film progresses Jay is plagued by zombie-like imagery of people she knows and loves that only she is able to see and it makes for some skin-crawlingly scary scenes. The way the plot sounds doesn't make the film sound like it is anything special and i have to admit the plot synopsis on IMDb didn't make me want to rush out and see the film, but I am very glad I did.
Horror films recently have been tripe, back in the 70s and 80s we had classic horror such as The Evil Dead and A Nightmare on Elm Street among others, these films were heavily reliant on psycholgical and creepy imagery that really did work. More recently we have had a slew of films that have just been jump scares thrown into a sequence of events and called a film.. Prime examples of recent films are Annabelle and The Woman In Black Angel of Death.. neither of these films worked as horror and I found myself more bored than creeped out. Then I saw an awesome film called The Babadook which really made me feel like good horror still exists, I don't want to compare this film to The Babadook too much but I found them to be similar in the way that they both scared the living daylights out of me and had me thinking about them long after seeing them. I cannot remember the last time I felt that way about horror, but with these examples I believe with some more work horror cinema will get back to the way it once was.
In the end It Follows is a well acted (especially the main actress who was believable and a pleasure to watch) and downright creepy film that I would definitely recommend to anybody who is a horror fan. The cinematography really shone and the soundtrack was terrifyingly awesome, the score is still in my head and i guarantee after seeing this you will walk out of the cinema and will be really conscious of the people around you. Never will I look at an old lady behind me again without thinking she is going to follow and murder me for her own amusement. It also has what most horrors don't nowadays which is an INCREDIBLY intense climax. I was on the edge of my seat gripping my girlfriend's hand tight in suspense until the very end.
One of the gripes I do have is that the ending did kind of suck and was so abrupt that I don't know exactly how I feel about it, although I can see why it was done in this way. Now if you will excuse me there is a creepy lady walking towards me and I have to run, looks like this will be a sleepless night.