Archive of films It Follows / It Follows

USA
2014, 100 min

Section: Midnight Screenings
Year: 2014

High school student Jay starts having alarming visions that someone is following her. What is worse, she is convinced that if they catch her, she will die. This dynamic and engrossing run from inevitable danger garnered considerable attention at this year’s Critics’ Week at Cannes.

Synopsis

Jay is just another high school slacker who, like her friends, would like to meet a pretty guy for a date. But she has no idea that, one evening, her entire world will be turned upside-down as she becomes the victim of a wandering curse. She begins to be tormented by demons lusting for her life, which is now reduced to merely looking over her shoulders the whole time to make sure that nobody is following her. Together with her friends, who don’t share these terrifying visions, she sets out across the state in order to avoid a confrontation with her sadly inevitable destiny. It Follows is an interesting and refreshing take on the stale genre of ghost horror, which today represents an oft-ignored sub-category of the horror movie. Thanks to its chilling atmosphere, the film manages to convince even hardened skeptics, while also creating a world with real heroes whom we truly care about as they set out on their dramatic journey.

About the director

David Robert Mitchell is a distinctive young American independent filmmaker. His feature-length debut The Myth of the American Sleepover (2010), which explored the world of teenagers, was shown at South by Southwest, where it received the Jury Prize for Best Ensemble Cast. He was later the only American participating director in the Critics’ Week at Cannes, which is open to just seven films from around the world. His second and so far latest film also looks at the lives of young people; It Follows received positive praise from both audiences and film professionals at its world premiere during Cannes’ Critics’ Week. The Los Angeles-based director has earned numerous awards and is currently working on several other projects.

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About the film

Color, DCP

Section:	Midnight Screenings

Director:	David Robert Mitchell
Screenplay:	David Robert Mitchell
Dir. of Photography:	Michael Gioulakis
Music:	Disasterpeace
Editor:	Julio C. Perez IV
Producer:	Rebecca Green, Laura D. Smith, David Robert Mitchell, David Kaplan, Erik Rommesmo
Production:	Animal Kingdom, Northern Lights, Two Flints
Cast:	Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary, Olivia Luccardi, Lili Sepe
Contact:	Visit Films

Guests

Rebecca Green

Producer