HorrorTriviaMaster wrote:
To all of the haters of It Follows:
My personal take on It Follows is, it is several things. First, it is a movie that (in MY opinion) successfully manages to make an entire story out of the often played to death Horror movie cliche where the killer (or one of the killers) is merely walking towards a person and no matter HOW FAST the person runs, the killer somehow successfully manages to catch up to him/her. The second thing It Follows is, is possibly a metaphor for the danger of STD's. Why not? Horror films can have morals, and I definitely think that a lot of people don't give It Follows enough credit. Let's take into account how small the budget for this film must have been, and this film STILL manages to pull off the "classic Horror movie feel" often shown in 70's and 80's Horror movies! The soundtrack is probably the best thing about this movie! It was done by DisasterPeace. Pardon my French, but I love the SHIT out of this movie! I agree with Joe 999%! It is also one of the best Horror films I have seen in years as well! Someone on this board said the plot was "sloppy"? I disagree. The reason why the plot of It Follows may SEEM sloppy is because you are misinterpreting it. Whenever you watch a movie or show, NEVER try to see it how YOU want it to be. That mindset is doomed to failure. Instead, try to see it how the crew of the movie sees it. In other words, if you think every movie and show is tailor made just to suit JUST YOU and nobody else, you are going to hate every single movie and show ever made! Realize that, unless you worked on the movie, you had nothing to do with any of these movies, so of course you're probably not going to like EVERYTHING about a movie. True, SOME movies have sloppy plots, like Troma movies, where they couldn't give a $&@% about ANYTHING in the movies they produce. I DO NOT think that is the case for It Follows. I think what you call "sloppy", I call "vague on purpose". Why would a Horror movie villain be made to be so vague and mysterious? Well, do you really think a Horror movie villain would be anywhere NEAR as creepy if EVERY SINGLE DETAIL about the villain were told to you in the first five minutes? Of course not. A good Horror movie slowwwwwly leaks the details of the plot and the intention of the villain(s) as the movie progresses.
With an 83 on Metacritic, a 96 on Rotten Tomatoes and 7/10 from IMDB users (just to pick a few measures) there are very few It Follows "haters" out there in the world.
While I stand by my criticism that it is sloppy at points, I also said I LIKED the movie. I just didn't like it to the degree that so many others have. To put a letter grade on it, I'd say it is B/B-. I think it's a clever idea, with ok execution (i.e. not bad, but also not revolutionary/amazing/heretofore unseen). As for the score, I really liked the pieces when the kids were just driving around, but any time it wanted to build tension it shifted to this piercing, shrill electric mess. Yes, I know music is used to build tension all the time, I just found the use here to be intrusive more than effective.
And what's this you say? Movies aren't made to suit just me? Boy have I wasted the last 30+ years of movie watching.
The movie is the movie. I believe filmmaker intent should be a factor in any evaluation, but if the movie doesn't deliver, those intentions don't mean very much. I say that more as a general point about watching movies, not specifically to It Follows.
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but in all seriousness if you liked IT FOLLOWS that's cool but I guess I don't like this new trend in Horror films where they leave it up to the viewer to figure out the meaning (Like The Babadook) I mean come on sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, why does everything have to be so cryptic?
