'It follows' will send chills down your spine
- 9 years ago
For 19-year-old Jay, life should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake.
But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she finds herself plagued by the feeling that someone, or something, is following her.
‘It Follows’ is US writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s second feature following his poignant coming-of-age drama ‘The Myth Of The American Sleepover’.
Maika Monroe plays the lead character.
“The idea came from David (Robert Mitchell)‘s nightmares and it was… as a kid he had this consistent dream about this thing following him. Sometimes it would be people that he recognized or unknowns, so I think in the movie there are some characters, her father comes in one and then her grandmother in another. I think that is when it is the scariest, when it is someone that you know following you,” says Monroe.
The film premiered last year at Cannes’ Critics’ Week to mostly positive reviews.
Daniel Zovatto, who plays Jay’s neighbour Greg, said he was delighted to
But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she finds herself plagued by the feeling that someone, or something, is following her.
‘It Follows’ is US writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s second feature following his poignant coming-of-age drama ‘The Myth Of The American Sleepover’.
Maika Monroe plays the lead character.
“The idea came from David (Robert Mitchell)‘s nightmares and it was… as a kid he had this consistent dream about this thing following him. Sometimes it would be people that he recognized or unknowns, so I think in the movie there are some characters, her father comes in one and then her grandmother in another. I think that is when it is the scariest, when it is someone that you know following you,” says Monroe.
The film premiered last year at Cannes’ Critics’ Week to mostly positive reviews.
Daniel Zovatto, who plays Jay’s neighbour Greg, said he was delighted to