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Wombaticus Rex » Mon Feb 09, 2015 5:23 pm wrote:Just caught "It Follows" - a horror film due for release a little later this year - damn.
Won't say a thing about the plot, but suffice it to say this was a very fresh, smart film with a gnawing nightmare of an idea behind it.
Especially impressive for the photography -- and apparently the director (David Roberts, I think?) is one of those hands-on auteurs and he is Fincher-type talented with making even average scenes compelling.
Luther Blissett » Wed Apr 01, 2015 9:59 am wrote:It Follows is going to be one of my favorite films of the year, I can just feel it. This is coming highly recommended. I love atmospheric films that say more with their implicit nature than with their explicit formal qualities (see Kubrick) and this one doesn't disappoint. I'm going to have to give it multiple viewings to try to analyze some of the background and settings.
One of the most interesting things about this movie is that it takes place in a parallel universe, though it's subtle. Near the beginning the characters are watching a black and white flying saucer film on a tube television (a motif repeated throughout) even though they're wearing contemporary clothes; there does not seem to be "an internet" or "social media" though one character carries a sufficiently technologically advanced device in the form of a seashell makeup compact, with which she reads books (Dostoevsky) and poetry; Detroit is already collapsed; cars and signage are all disjointed and out-of-time; college coursework appears as giant folded paper charts and tables (in a class on Prufrock). I loved this about the movie and it's totally separate from the horror on-screen, the performances and the score (all of which are great).
I'm not going to post the trailer because I don't think it does the film justice. But if you like atmospheric, dreamy, well-crafted horror, I implore you to go see it.
If you worry that this is some kind of morality play, it definitely isn't.
http://io9.com/it-follows-proves-that-h ... 1691019297
http://www.avclub.com/review/it-follows ... ge--216311
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