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It Follows is the scariest American horror movie in years
Vox ^ | March 13, 2015 | Todd VanDerWerff

Posted on 03/13/2015 10:54:15 AM PDT by EveningStar

... The central conceit of It Follows, the excellent new horror film from director David Robert Mitchell, sounds eerie the first time you hear it, but it only gets more frightening every time you think about it. And the movie goes out of its way to give you reasons to think about just how horrifying it would be for this to play out in real life ...

It Follows is a movie about a curse. While you're cursed, you will be stalked, mercilessly, by an entity that can take any form — including that of someone you love — and will stop at nothing to grab you and violently murder you. You can walk or run away from it easily. You can even drive away at top speed. But all that will do is buy you time. It will keep walking and keep walking. And it will catch you ...

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cinema; curse; davidrobertmitchell; film; horror; itfollows; movies; supernatural
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To: Zeneta

Yeah. Something that can take any form and can catch you no matter what? Only a Deus Ex Machina can save you.


21 posted on 03/13/2015 11:13:59 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: circlecity

The “Ring” was pretty good.


22 posted on 03/13/2015 11:17:21 AM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: Glad2bnuts

I remember that movie, and it WAS a good one...
Fallen.

“Ti i i ime... is on my side... yes it is!”


23 posted on 03/13/2015 11:19:37 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: WayneS

I was thinking “Final Destination 6” but either will do.


24 posted on 03/13/2015 11:25:40 AM PDT by stylin19a (obama = Eddie Mush)
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To: Zeneta

What about the exorcist?


25 posted on 03/13/2015 11:29:30 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: PapaNew
Seven years of monumental evil and catastrophic devastation wherein most of earth’s population will be killed, will be followed by 1000 years of the most blessed peace and harmony on earth since there was a nation.

Well, you can't make an omlette without breaking a few eggs.
26 posted on 03/13/2015 11:31:24 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: EveningStar

If I had some evil force coming after me to kill me, I wouldn’t try all kinds of outlandish ways to kill it... I would trap it in a steel cage and keep it prisoner.

If it is invisible, that is even better — no legal ramifications for keeping someone in a cage that only I can see.


27 posted on 03/13/2015 11:33:21 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: EveningStar
I have lived the scariest movie ever made...

28 posted on 03/13/2015 11:36:17 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: EveningStar

Didn’t the 1980s TV show Buck Rogers in the 25th Century have this as a plot(similar to TERMINATOR)?
Buck must protect a girl from a “terminator”. He leads the terminator over some sand trap creature hiding in it that pulls it’s victims down under the sand.
The terminator is caught, pulled down, and Buck saves the girl and gets her away. Everyone is happy.
Last scene is the terminator emerging from the sand after killing the sand creature.


29 posted on 03/13/2015 11:46:08 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: longfellow

What about the exorcist?


It may be the standard of scary movies.

But if the intent of the movie is to actually “Scare” their audience then IMHO, it falls short.

It’s still a great movie, but not scary.

If you consider “The Blair Witch Project”, which was a low budget film, and how its surprising success led to the adoption of camera techniques that are annoyingly found in way to many films.

The “Shaking Camera”, the constantly shaking camera.

Another thing that I’ve noticed about both “Scary/Horror” films as well as action films is the length of each “cut”.

Something that I find extremely annoying.

Next time you watch one of these films, count the cuts between one scene to the next within the same scene. More often than not the cuts only last 1 to 3 seconds and will run for 20 or 30 minutes like this.

I hate it.


30 posted on 03/13/2015 11:52:22 AM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: baltimorepoet

Yeah, I remember that one!


31 posted on 03/13/2015 11:52:44 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: EveningStar

worth a look.


32 posted on 03/13/2015 11:54:22 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Glad2bnuts

Yeah, that was “Fallen” I think you are talking about.


33 posted on 03/13/2015 11:54:23 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: EveningStar

Sounds like “The Thing”, just 33 years later.


34 posted on 03/13/2015 11:55:48 AM PDT by skinndogNN
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To: demshateGod

Yes, the second definition of conceit:

“a fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor.”


35 posted on 03/13/2015 11:55:49 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Zeneta
"I’ve always found that “Scary or Horror” films are so contrived that there is nothing frightful about them."

Yes. Like the GEICO ad. --"A group of kids are running from a murderer in the middle of the woods when they stumble upon an old cabin. “Let’s hide in the attic. No, in the basement.” One woman starts breaking down into tears “Why can’t we just get in the running car?!” She is dismissed as crazy “Are you crazy?! Let’s hide behind the chainsaws.”

36 posted on 03/13/2015 11:56:05 AM PDT by moehoward
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To: Zeneta

I hate that shaky camera thing on every show, damn that’s annoying. Couldn’t watch the blair movie cause I was getting sick.

As far as the exorcist, disturbing scary, cause it’s possible. I think that’s what got to people. Like the zodiac movie. It was real.
My wife til this day can’t hear the music. That’s scary.

Nobody is running out of the theatre during these stabbing shock movies.


37 posted on 03/13/2015 11:59:07 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: circlecity
Did you see Sinister? Good atmospherics, like the first Ring.
38 posted on 03/13/2015 12:00:07 PM PDT by FredZarguna (O, Reason not the need.)
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To: moehoward

Yep.

There’s a huge difference between a Horror flick and a thriller.

I grew up with all the “Jason” movies etc, but none compare to a classic like “Gaslight” (1944).


39 posted on 03/13/2015 12:02:19 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: baltimorepoet

Good one.

It will probably be like the destruction and mess you see at the beginning of a construction project only on a massive scale, and then the final, finished building.


40 posted on 03/13/2015 12:09:47 PM PDT by PapaNew (The grace of God & freedom always win the debate in the forum of ideas over unjust law & government)
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