Give it a Chance | 31 Nights of Horror

Storyline

For 19-year-old Jay, autumn should be about school, boys, and weekends out at the lake. But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she is plagued by strange visions and the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay and her friends must find a way to escape the horrors that seem to be only a few steps behind.

Our Thoughts on It Follows (2014)

Unlike the movie last night, The Birds that created tension with no musical score, this one does the exact opposite and I think it does it very well.

This movie was decent. It is your typical stalker type flcik but offers a little bit different tale of the story.

It is the director debut for this one and he did a great job with a very small budget and filmed entirely in Michigan.

Trivia

The time frame of the movie is intentionally kept undefined so that it resembles a dream. Some of the cars shown are from more recent times. Many appear to be from the ’60s to late ’80s. Early CRT television sets are shown whenever the characters are watching movies. Conflicting technology includes Yara on a device that looks like a shell compact, but she reads from it like an e-book reader and uses it as a light source at one point. Also, the girl at the beginning of the film uses a cellphone and drives a modern automobile, with several modern vehicles in view.

(at around 9 mins) The theatre featured at the beginning of the film is the Redford Theatre, a historic Japanese-style theatre with a fully-functioning Wurlitzer organ, in the Old Redford neighborhood of Detroit, MI. The Evil Dead (1981) premiered there.

David Robert Mitchell has cited the works of George A. Romero and John Carpenter as major influences on his style of filming and creative decisions on this film.