David Weaver from Examiner writes:
Every now and then a movie comes along that grabs you by the balls and just won't let go. That movie doesn't have to be ground breaking or even great. All it has to do is hit that single nerve, that thing that catches your attention and won't let go even long after it has ended. The new horror film It Follows is just such a film as even as I write this certain images have engrained themselves into my mind so well that it is almost distracting. They say the best praise any film can receive is when you can't stop thinking or talking about it and in the case of It Follows, I haven't been able to stop thinking or talking about it since the moment those end credits rolled.
Sometimes you just have to decompress after a movie and talk about it with others...or listen to two other guys talk about. That's were we come in.
The A.V. Club
There’s an old saying that one is an example, two is a coincidence, and three is a trend. That’s especially true when it comes to horror, where either because of synchronicity or cold commercial calculation, trends bubble up seemingly overnight, and then dominate the genre for years. One slasher film is an anomaly. Two? Well, sometimes minds—great or otherwise—think alike. But if there’s three? Brace for the glut.
The Babadook is freaking terrifying. It's that scream though... "DOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKK!!!!!! !!!"
Collider
A few days ago we shared some quotes from a recent Quentin Tarantino interview during which he called David Robert Mitchell‘s It Follows a movie that is “so good that you start getting mad at it for not being great.” He went into more detail pinpointing specific elements of the film that irk him like mythology inconsistencies and problems with Keir Gilchrist‘s character Paul, and then, as one might expect, Mitchell found out about it and he decided to use Twitter to respond to the comments: