It Follows.

I can't wait to see this. It looks so good!

Saw this earlier this week, the concept of the horror is primal, I wasn't surprised when I read the director got the idea from nightmares he had as a young child.

Would really like to see this but even though it "comes out" in the US today there are no screenings in my backwater 'burgh for the foreseeable future. I figure if MPC made a sincere post about it it must be fuckin' good.

It'll be an uncivil war, I presume? North v. South? Provinces v. Home Counties? Something like this, maybe?

Saw this last night with Iffy and we both absolutely loved it. It was great to see with a big audience who were obviously horror fans because you could practically feel people leaning away from the screen in terror during some scenes. I already want to watch it again! 

I quick-scrolled past all the comments so as to avoid spoilers, because I need to say hooray! It Follows opens in my town tonight and I never, ever thought that would happen. Can't wait.

Just got back from seeing it, and holy shit, that film was so much fun! More thoughts about it on the Last Movie Watched Thread. 

The tl;dr version: highly recommended! 

The majority of filmgoers are stupid, so take solace in that! 

One thing I loved about the film is how some of the 'timeless' details (TV sets with bunny ears, older cars, etc) could be read as both an homage to older horrors films and a commentary on the urban decay of Detroit. 

In many wonderful ways, it felt like a great 80s horror film that hadn't been released before. 

I really wanted to love this movie, and it was pretty good, but felt very overhyped to me, whereas The Babadook completely lived up to my expectations. My biggest issue with it was that it was just too much of a throwback, too focused on imitating Carpenter and 80's horror in general to really develop up much of it's own style. The score was gorgeous though, and better than most actual 80's horror scores. It also frustrated me how it refused to engage with the sexual themes... it seemed like an idea the director had to to give it an "edge" but he didn't really seem like he was comfortable with that aspect, and the way the creature often looked like a rape victim or someone who had been sexually traumatized seemed too much like it was done for shock value. And it was filled with absolutely ridiculous and terrible horror movie behavior, in which people put themselves in completely vulnerable positions for no reason at bad times. And the dialogue was just flat and banal in a bad way.

The only parts I really found scary to were the times when we would see someone following the characters from a distance... when we got to the actual face to face encounters with the creature things just a bit silly. Pretty much every "horror" sequence felt like a variation on the same theme, and it got pretty repetitive at a certain point. The climax at the pool was a very memorable and intense setpiece, but the character's whole plan to kill the creature made no sense and seemed really forced to get us to that place.

But the cinematography and set design were pretty great, and the acting was quite good when it wasn't hampered by weak dialogue. The setting and environment was extremely well realized, which is always a bonus for a horror movie. And it established the initial atmosphere very well, and that sense of thinking someone's following you at a distance but not being quite sure is a great primal fear that hasn't been tapped into quite as thoroughly as this movie did before. But I feel like the genre is so starved in a lot of ways that a decent "B" horror movie like this comes along and it gets praised way out of proportion to it's actual value (the same thing happened with You're Next, though I thought this was definitely better than that movie). I have a really hard time seeing this one becoming a classic, or even remembered by much of anyone other than horror junkies in a few years' time.

Pretty much agree with a lot of what drjacoby said. A lot of the encounters between Jay and the creature felt more silly than threatening (I burst out giggling when we saw the first solo encounter with the creature as an elderly lady in a hospital gown, me and my friend said "What the fuck" at a certain kill that takes place in the movie) but I guess my main criticism would be toward the setting of the where I watched the movie though.

It Follows feel more like a film to watch at home during a dark and stormy night instead of a theater with many audience members visibly bored by the movie. Maybe I'll check it out again when it hits VOD and have a lot more positive things to say about it.

Definitely this; I'm sure there are still a lot of Detroit homes (though not necessarily in the characters' neighborhood) that use digital antennas on similarly crappy analog TVs. For me, the only really weak part of the movie was when they were crossing Eight Mile and directly mentioning it (I kept expecting to see "CLASS COMMENTARY" flash across the screen like "SATIRE" during the "Architects' Sketch" in Monty Python). Other than that, all the oblique references were brilliantly done; really looking forward to plumbing the reviews.

Agreeing with flapjackriley in particular that it often wasn't all that scary per se; most of the best horror movies (for my money) generally aren't (or at least they try not to rely too much on the jump scares that mar so much of the genre these days through overreliance). Mitchell's really mastered that kind of indefinable dread that marks the best.

I loved it. Not only did it scare me silly, it was just so dang beautiful. I was really charmed by the nebulous time frame - 60s? 70s? but filled with modern anachronisms, like the compact e-reader (does this exist and where do i get one) and white boards in the classroom. Every ruined house and sweater and lamp was perfect. IMHO, the Carpenter-esque soundtrack felt more like an homage than a rip-off, and it made me smile over and over. And did I mention scary? Oh lord it was so scary. Do I need to mention spoilers here? SPOILERS Y'ALL .............. holy shit the tall man when he came through her bedroom door. Brilliant I thought - the swimming pool scene especially, so well-framed and planned, I wanted to cheer when I saw they had an actual plan to beat the thing, and then it went somewhere they never could have predicted. One of the best movies I've seen in recent memory. I'll do my best to see it again before it's gone.

That's a really compelling interpretation! I'm not sure if it works for me, mostly because it took the form of Greg's mother too - was he abused as well? But I concede that the tying of not just household items but things from her childhood into it was a stroke of genius. Sadness and creepiness, familiarity and revulsion, comfort and harm all rolled into one fucked up confrontation. Oh! I have goosebumps - I just saw it a couple of hours ago!

The House of the Devil comparisons are particularly spot on. Both it and It Follows feel like great horror films we somehow haven't seen. 

One thing I loved about the anachronistic details in It Follows is how they feel both like an homage to 70s/80s horror cinema and a sly commentary on class in Detroit (how many of the characters, even in the suburbs don't have a lot of money so their possessions are predominantly simpler).