When he was 10 he had a recurrent nightmare about something relentlessly following him. It Follows work so well because Mitchell draws on his own fears, fears that date back to his childhood.
#It follows me free#
And that’s the scariest thing, the unknown, something that our imaginations are free to create in details that reflect our own individual fears. We feel tense, we’re worried about the girl but we can’t figure out what could possibly be out there. The woman gets in her car and speeds away.Īnd Mitchell has us hooked because he has created a sense of anxiety. The camera its 360-degree move allowing us to scan the entire area and conclude that there’s nothing unusual to report. In fact, she tells her dad and a neighbor not to worry, everything’s fine.
She looks like the big-breasted, stiletto-heeled slasher victim we’re familiar with but she’s not screaming. As the camera continues to pan it picks up a panicked young woman running out of her house. The sun is going down and everything seems quiet and calm. The camera slowly and objectively begins a 360-degree pan of the suburban neighborhood. It announces the tone by creating an initial sense of unease, and then ramps up to build tension. First cue the music…ĬLIP music (which will play under the whole description) Let’s dissect the opening scene from It Follows. Instead of the smug superiority of the Scream franchise, It Follows critiques genre clichés by embedding them in the story and making us see them in fresh ways. Mitchell sends up genre tropes as much as Scream did but in a wildly different manner. People like Jim Mickle with We Are What We Are, Jennifer Kent with The Babadook, and now David Robert Mitchell with It Follows. It’s been a long road back to serious horror but recent films make my heart race with excitement about a new generation of horror directors dead serious about scaring us. They seemed to think that every scare required a punch line. The film scored at the box office and with many horror fans, and ushered in a generation of filmmakers who couldn’t take horror seriously. Some stupid killer stalking a big-breasted woman who can’t act and is always running up the stairs when she should be going out the front door, it’s insulting… In 1996 Scream served up a meta-horror comedy that ridiculed the tropes of the genre.ĬLIP Do you like scary movies? What’s the point they are all the same. So she can’t understand why the studio has been delaying the release and making access to press materials so difficult. ANCHOR INTRO: KPBS arts reporter and horror aficionado Beth Accomando says It Follows is one of the best horror films in years.
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