Tuesday 19 January 2016

It Follows (2014) review

SPOILERS

There is something that chases people and kills them. The people being chased can see the chaser, but no-one else can. Oh. And the chasers walk, they don't run...

And one more thing. If you are being chased then having sex with someone will make them get chased instead of you... until they die... then you are the chased again.

All very simple. Except that there are quite a few layers to the plot. For a start, when our friend first gets tagged there's the fact that none of her friends believe her. Why would they? They can't see it.

Then she thinks she can outrun it. Then she realises she can't. Then her friends do believe her...

At which point a couple of nice boys are very keen to sleep with her, even at risk of death. Kind huh?

So, it is a slow burning build up of tension with the odd jump thrown in. I quite enjoyed it. Not really a horror film, more suspense... except you know what is going to happen, pretty much.

I really couldn't see how it was going to end. And that was the one real disappointment. There isn't really an ending. It just stops.

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