It Follows takes a good deal from the greats in the horror genre, namely Halloween. With the enemy being as far-fetched as it may come across in conversation, it's easy to get caught up in the surroundings of the characters looking for "it." Having to watch over the characters' shoulders throughout the movie makes it all the more frightening when something IS seen, and there's never a sense of safety. This is a movie that knows what it's doing, and its main concern is to make the audience feel as if they are a part of the experience with the sense of realism. That being said, the film breaks a lot of the norms set by today's "scary" films. There is no real way to explain the plot of this film without it coming across like a more twisted game of "tag," which played a part in exactly how many people I could talk into seeing it after the mixed feelings from the trailer. Dread is felt in this movie almost immediately because it combines so well with the tone, another forgotten about ingredient in horrors. In the past few years more and more horrors have relied on jump scares to make up for the true scariest part of any horror film, the sense of dread. This is a movie that was light on the jump scares, which is a delightful change of pace. It Follows is a horror film made for horror fans, and it's about time one of those came around again.
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