It follows

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Movie
German title It follows
Original title It follows
It Follows Title.png
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director David Robert Mitchell
script David Robert Mitchell
production Rebecca Green
Laura D. Smith
David Robert Mitchell
David Kaplan
Erik Rommesmo
music Disasterpeace
camera Mike Gioulakis
cut Julio C. Perez IV
occupation

It Follows ( English for following it ) is an American horror film from the year 2014 . The screenplay was written and directed by American director David Robert Mitchell . The film celebrated its world premiere on May 17, 2014 at the Cannes International Film Festival and then screened at other film festivals such as the Fantasy Film Festival , the Toronto International Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival . It was initially restricted in the USA from March 13, 2015 and published regularly from March 27, 2015. The German theatrical release was on July 9, 2015.

action

A girl flees her house in fear and drives to the beach, where she tearfully tells her parents over the phone that she loves them. In the morning it turns out that it was brutally murdered.

Nineteen-year-old Jaime “Jay” Height, a light-hearted college student from Michigan, goes to the movies with a boy named Hugh. When Hugh discovers a young woman at the entrance, whom Jay cannot see, he suddenly becomes frightened and asks Jay to leave the theater. Another day, Hugh and Jay go out on a date where they have sex in his car before he numb them with chloroform . Jay then wakes up tied to a wheelchair and sees the panicked Hugh, who explains to her that she is now under a curse. She is pursued by a being who appears in various known or unknown shapes and kills her as soon as he is touched. The curse would then bounce back on the person from whom she took it over. To prevent that from happening, she has to pass the curse on by sleeping with someone in order to be released from it. In order for her to believe him, he waits in a wheelchair with the tied Jay until the creature appears. It is now slowly walking towards her in the form of a naked woman. Just before it can get hold of her, Hugh escapes with Jay. Then he drives her home, throws her out of the car and disappears. She now has to figure out how to escape the curse.

At school, Jay meets an old woman in a nightgown who slowly approaches her. She flees to her sister Kelly. Jay's sister and her friends Yara and Paul, who has had an eye on Jay since childhood, decide to help her and keep watch during the night.

During the night the kitchen window is smashed and Jay tells Paul to look. When he examines it, however, nobody can be seen. While Paul is about to wake Jay's sister to call the police, Jay sees a half-naked woman approaching them in the kitchen. But the others cannot see them. Jay then flees to her room. When the creature in the form of a tall man with gouged eyes enters the room, Jay jumps out of the window and rides her bike to a nearby playground, the others follow her. Jay now decides to look for Hugh.

Since Hugh has disappeared without a trace, Greg, Jay and Kelly's neighbors get his car and drive them to Hugh's house, which he has rented under a false name. While rummaging through his belongings, they discover a high school photo of Hugh. With the help of the photo, they can now find out which high school he attended. Once there, they learn from the yearbook that the school knows him and that his real name is Jeff Redmond. They get his mother's address where he really lives. The group now drives to this address to finally find Jeff and confront him. He explains to them that he believes he has the curse from a one night stand and that only the cursed can see the being, even if they have already passed the curse on. He affirmed again that Jay would have to sleep with someone in order to pass the curse on. He now advises them to go away for a while, to get some distance and to buy time to develop a plan. The group then drives together to Greg's house on the lake, where Jay learns to use a gun. But the curse finally catches up with Jay and the creature attacks her. Paul notices this, who grabs a chair and hits something invisible to him. The others, with the exception of Greg, who is a little way away, now notice this too. The friends then run to the nearby shed. Jay grabs the gun hidden there and shoots the thing to temporarily incapacitate it. Then they block the door from the inside. When it breaks through the door to get in, Jay escapes the shed, jumps into Greg's car, and drives away. She comes off the road and crashes her car into a corn field. She wakes up in the hospital with a broken arm surrounded by her mother, sister, and friends.

Jay now sleeps with Greg in the hospital because he wants her to pass the curse on to him. But Greg doesn't really want to believe that this curse really exists, because he hadn't witnessed the attack on Jay first hand. Jay later observes from the window how the creature in the form of Greg smashes a window pane of his house to get inside. She tries to warn the real Greg over the phone, but he doesn't answer. Jay then runs into Greg's house and finds the thing in the form of his half-naked mother knocking on his room door. When Greg reacts and opens the door, the creature jumps on him and appears to be raping him. Greg dies and Jay is forced to flee again because the curse will return to her. She escapes into the forest and spends the night at the nearby lake. The next morning Jay watches three young men on a boat. She undresses and goes into the water.

Jay returns home where Paul visits her. He asks Jay why she chose Greg. She replies that Greg wanted it that way because he wasn't scared, but she shouldn't have. Paul offers to sleep with her to pass the curse on to him. But Jay refuses.

Jay and her friends now plan to lure the creature and electrocute it in an abandoned swimming pool. To do this, you pack all electrical devices in the house into the car. On departure, Jay sees the creature in the form of a naked old man standing on the roof of the house. When they arrive at the swimming pool, they distribute the electrical devices and plug them into sockets. When the creature appears after a while and approaches the edge of the pool, Jay realizes that it has taken on the appearance of her father. Instead of going into the pool, it takes the electrical devices and throws them into the water at Jay to kill them. Paul tries to shoot it, but cannot see its target. He begins to fire blindly at the invisible target, accidentally injuring Yara in the leg with one shot. Kelly then throws a blanket over the thing so that Paul can shoot him in the head. The being now falls to Jay in the pool and pulls her under the water. Paul then shoots in Jay's direction and finally hits the creature again in the head, causing it to let go of Jay and she can get out of the pool. Paul asks her if she can still see the thing and it's dead. Jay approaches the pool, which is slowly filling with blood.

After these terrible events, Jay sleeps with Paul after all. Then he drives past prostitutes on his way home through a run-down part of the city. Some time later, Jay and Paul are strolling hand in hand down the street while someone slowly approaches in the background.

background

The film was shot in Detroit , Michigan . It is a co-production of the American film production companies Animal Kingdom , Northern Lights Films and Two Flints . The shooting with a budget of approximately two million US dollars took place from September 2013. Since its release in the United States, it has brought back around 15 million US dollars. It Follows was published in Germany by the Leipzig- based Weltkino Filmverleih GmbH .

In the United States, the Motion Picture Association of America gave the film an R rating for "serious violent and sexual content including vivid nudity and offensive language," while in Germany it was approved with an FSK -12 seal. Weltkino Filmverleih itself sells the film in the home theater market with an FSK-16 label. The FSK's statement of reasons for approval states, among other things: “While children under the age of 12 can be overwhelmed by the threatening atmosphere and individual depictions of violence, 12-year-olds are already able to process the film in its genre context. The violence and sex scenes are not played out voyeuristically, and the connection between the curse and sexuality is clearly recognizable as a fictional construction. The film addresses pubertal fears to an extent that is acceptable for 12-year-olds. "

Film music

The music for the film comes from Rich Vreeland under the pseudonym Disasterpeace . The soundtrack was released on February 2, 2015 via Editions Milan Music with the permission of The Weinstein Company, together with a digital booklet as a download and the version of the album on CD on March 24, 2015.

It follows
Disasterpeace soundtrack

Publication
(s)

2015

Label (s) Editions Milan Music

Format (s)

Download , compact disc

Genre (s)

Electronic music

Title (number)

18th

running time

44:43

occupation
  • Rich Vreeland

production

  • Richard Glasser
  • JC Chamboredon
  • Stefan Karrer
chronology
The Floor is Jelly (2014) It follows -
It Follows - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 
No. title length
1. Heels 2:46
2. Title 2:17
3. Jay 1:28
4th Anyone 1:48
5. Old Maid 2:32
6th Company 4:12
7th Detroit 1:20
8th. Detritus 2:18
9. Playpen 1:28
10. Inquiry 2:20
11. Lakeward 1:34
12. Double 5:25
13. Relay 1:52
14th Greg 3:28
15th Snare 0:59
16. pool 1:35
17th Father 5:01
18th Linger 2:20
Overall length: 44:43

reception

source rating
Rotten tomatoes
critic 97%
audience 66%
Metacritic
critic 83/100
audience
IMDb
AllMovie
critic
audience

The reviews of the film were mostly positive. On Rotten Tomatoes , It Follows received a rating of 97% based on 226 positive and 8 critical reviews as well as an average rating of 8.1 / 10 and a user rating of 66% with an average rating of 3.5 out of 5 possible points. The critical consensus of the site reads: "Intelligent, original and above all terrifying, It Follows is the rare modern horror film that works on several levels - and leaves a lasting sting." The website Metacritic calculated an average Metascore of 83/100 based on 37 reviews from well-known media and our own user rating of 7.8 / 10 based on 981 votes. (As of January 2018)

Reviews

David Kleingers from Spiegel Online attests the film an exciting kind of genre cinema with cross-references to the horror cinema of the 1970s and 1980s with a, literally, “quintessence and abstraction of pathological teen fear; a versatile metaphor for adolescent crossing borders and fear of loss ”. He writes on Spiegel.de:

“Mitchell's aesthetic access to the rich fund of horror cinema is delightful. He makes no secret of the prominent godparents of his film, and so in 'It Follows' the wide-angle shots and treacherous changes of focus between the foreground and background from John Carpenter's ' Halloween ' (1978) can be recognized as well as the deceptive suburban idyll from Wes Craven's original ' A Nightmare on Elm Street ' (1984) and the delirious moment of Dario Argento's best films. […] The way Mitchell sets exciting impulses beyond the clever homage and virtuously combines tension, style and substance in an independent story, makes “It Follows” a stroke of luck for the genre: a horror film in which the pleasure of fear on the Foot follows. "

- Spiegel Online

Gregor Torinus from Filmstarts.de thinks that the film offers an exciting plot, but the shock moments begin to wear off over time. Still, he thinks the film is a solid “teen shocker”. He awards 3.5 out of 5 stars on Filmstarts.de and draws the conclusion:

“'It Follows' is an atmospherically successful teenie shocker with a very nice basic premise. Even if the plot loses momentum towards the end, the strong soundscape provides enough tension right up to the end. "

- movie starts

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for It Follows . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2015 (PDF; test number: 152 295 K).
  2. ^ It Follows Goes Everywhere; Director David Robert Mitchell on finding horror in Detroit (English) . austinchronicle.com. Retrieved July 7, 2015.
  3. ^ It Follows Box Office . boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved July 7, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Rotten Tomatoes : It Follows (2015). In: rottentomatoes.com. March 13, 2015, accessed January 20, 2018 .
  5. ^ "It Follows" MPAA Rating CARA . filmratings.com. Archived from the original on July 9, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 8, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / filmratings.com
  6. ↑ a b Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry: FSK - release reasons for IT FOLLOWS. In: spio-fsk.de. September 15, 2015, accessed August 7, 2017 .
  7. ↑ World cinema: IT FOLLOWS. In: weltkino.de. July 9, 2015, accessed August 7, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Jonathan Barkan: Stream 3 Tracks From The 'It Follows' Soundtrack. In: bloody-disgusting.com. February 25, 2015, accessed October 10, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Amazon : It Follows (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) + digital booklet. In: amazon.de. February 2, 2015, accessed September 10, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Amazon : It Follows: Amazon.de: Music. In: amazon.de. March 24, 2015, accessed October 10, 2015 .
  11. ↑ a b c Metacritic : It Follows. In: metacritic.com. March 13, 2015, accessed January 20, 2018 .
  12. ↑ It Follows (2014) - User ratings. In: imdb.com. May 27, 2016. Retrieved May 29, 2016 .
  13. ↑ a b Tim Holland: It Follows (2014) - Review. In: allemovie.com. March 13, 2015, accessed July 4, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Simon Abrams: It Follows Review & Film Summary (2015). rogerebert.com, March 13, 2015, accessed December 15, 2015 .
  15. ↑ David Kleingers: Horror film "It Follows": Sex as a survival strategy. In: Spiegel Online . July 7, 2015, accessed July 4, 2017 .
  16. ^ Gregor Torinus: The film starts criticism of It Follows. In: film starts . Retrieved July 4, 2017 .