Midnight Screenings 2014 / It Follows / USA 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.
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.
100 min / Color, DCP
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
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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