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Title: IT FOLLOWS
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Year: 2014
Reviewed: August 19, 2015
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Birthday Cake-Second Highest Rating |
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"Less artsy! More Fartsy!" --Homer Simpson
I did not like "It Follows". I found it to be so derivative, it was painful. The music especially was a hackneyed rip-off of everything John Carpenter has ever done. Maybe the director was trying to capture a time (the 80's) when horror movies were made, some of them even made well, however, the whole movie came off not as a loving homage or a nostalgic ode to a bygone decade, but more of a mediocre facsimile. Ad an overdrawn, "artsy" sense of pacing, and a stilted bunch of young actors who look as if they just stepped out of drama class or worse, they just stepped out of a Gus Van Sant drama class, and you've got a cool concept of a movie with a horrible, stale and vapid execution. There were some creepy scenes, but they weren't barely creepy enough. And I get it. I do. It's an allegory. The monsters no one can see except for the kids that have sex, are euphemisms for S.T.D.'s. But that leads me to believe who produced this film? The Christian church, maybe? Because when you get to the root of the story it's painfully pro abstinence. Which, let's be honest, makes me like the movie even less.
"It Follows" is an arty, "hipster", rip-off of better, more engaging, and more thought provoking 80's horror films. It sucks. That's why it gets a low BIRTHDAY CAKE review.
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