Clickonline writes: "In some ways, It Follows feels like a lost film from John Carpenter’s heyday. There’s a strong and terrifying hook but also a sense of playfulness and pacing which most modern horror filmmakers have forgotten in their rush for gore and gracelessness."
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.
I hope it comes soon. I don't think it has started yet. We've only got a few good horror films. Nothing really different from past years.
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:
