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It Follows
Director:
David Robert MitchellGuión:
David Robert MitchellCámara:
Mike GioulakisMúsica:
Rich VreelandReparto:
Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Jake Weary, Daniel Zovatto, Lili Sepe, Olivia Luccardi, Linda Boston, Bailey Spry, Claire Sloma, Debbie Williams, Rich Vreeland (más)Streaming (4)
Sinopsis(1)
Después de un encuentro sexual extraño, una adolescente se encuentra a sí misma plagada de visiones inquietantes y con la constante situación de que algo extraño está pasando. A sus 19 años, Jay (Maika Monroe), no es capaz de desprenderse de la sensación de que algo se oculta entre las sombras. A medida que la amenaza se va cercando, Jay y sus amigos deberán escapar de los horrores que les acechan. Aclamado trabajo de David Robert Mitchell, que recibió el apoyo de la crítica en festivales como Cannes, Austin o Deauville. (Surtsey Films)
(más)Reseñas (11)
Dos décadas de mi género favorito en un plato. La música intensa y los steadicams de las calles como si fueran de los inicios de Carpenter, a veces llevados a un giallo psicodélico, trabajan aquí con la dimensión misteriosa del horror oculto al estilo de La señal moderna, manteniendo la lógica de la trama y el comportamiento creíble de los personajes. Además, el horror lo transmiten las relaciones sexuales de apuestos adolescentes protagonizados por una rubia bastante frágil, y no es un placer, sino un sufrimiento culpable. Y todo acompañado de localizaciones oscuras de la exánime ciudad de Detroit. Un manjar para los conocedores del género, que podría haber sido el evento de la década si la brillante combinación de rumbos históricos hubiera sido coronada con algo nuevo y visionario.
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(49th KVIFF) I’m very happy after the screening at KVIFF. Seeing a good horror movie on a big screen, in a theatre full of people who, considering the circumnstances (the late hour and the booze), behaved well and weren’t a nuisance is not something you see very often. Objectively, I could complain about it being somewhat repetitive, most of the film consists of either how they try to catch the scary spirit or of how they go from one place to another, but these complaints are very well compensated by a premise that is original and entertaining for the genre, the likeable characters (finally, teenage protagonists in a horror movie that aren’t dull chess pieces, but nice young people, and you don’t want anything bad happening to them) and how effective it is overall – the opening sequence already gave me chills, and that feeling repeated itself during the entire 100 minute run. But what’s most valuable is that most of those scenes take place during the day. The climax at the swimming pool and the scene on the beach are some of the moments I will remember at the end of this film year. I was expecting something dirtier given the theme, and more sexually explicit, but It Follows is very lame in this aspect. As the producer said, in some sense it is actually a “pretty” film – the sun shines, the music is nice and the characters love each other. Only that they are followed by a horrifying spirit.
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The film follows its inspirations quite flamboyantly, but it's also not afraid to go its own way. Therefore, the only thing that really comes to mind is why the adults in the story are glossed over with such vigor and why we don't know more about the gentleman in the photo - in that case, it would have been a decent crawl at the end and not just a flowing breast-stroke.
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A sympathetic horror hipster that works quite well as a "coming of age" story about uncertainty, but worse as a genre piece. The attack attempts by ghosts in make-up are stupid and bring the film down. Although Mitchell has a good sense for visuals, the design (Detroit again) works best when it comes to working with tension and space, but it's not particularly inventive (the scene on the wheelchair is explicitly amateurish). I value the effort to update and the overlap, but the result is only slightly above average.
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The Christian fundamentalist right in the USA once again came up with a plan on how to strike a deadly blow to sin, and they realized that they should use more modern methods when addressing the young generation. So they paid David Mitchell and he crafted a script on how one's first sexual experience can unleash the worst demons and destroy those who wanted to have some fun and sin a little bit. It's definitely not clever or impressive to me. There are much better films in this genre, so why waste time with this? Overall impression: 25%.
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A pretty original idea and a pleasantly unpleasant Carpenter-like atmosphere, but the shooting scenes and the like bring it down from my point of view. Surely characters who appear in a horror movie don't have to act stupid just because they appear in a horror movie, right?
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Halloween for the XXI century. Unlike Carpenter’s masterpiece, Mitchell doesn’t bring anything particularly new or refreshing to the table, the power and effect of It Follows comes primarily from the way it returns to the prudent and old-fashioned representatives of the genre – there’s no need to create a cool killer and attack the viewer with exhibitions of style, it’s enough to highlight the most natural human needs, making you nervous with the sensation that your space will be breached by an indomitable, mysterious intruder. A very well cast and very beautiful Maika Monroe, a great retro music score and lots of creative awareness, all producing an attractive film space without any concrete period definitions (the cars speak of the 80s while the clothes and the design of the houses are almost identical to the present), without deviating formally from the “slasher” plane towards broader intellectual lines, which the premise smartly attacks. I would have liked a tighter ending, but it does keep its coherence and ambiguity. 85% and the fifth star is because no other horror movie from the entire decade deserves it more.
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Una película de la vieja escuela. Funciona en muchos aspectos (personajes, diálogos, música, creación de tensión y miedo) de los que muchas entregas de terror carecen. No puedo sino apreciar este logro. Es una pena que los creadores no hayan jugado más con la forma de los perseguidores. Sin embargo, estoy impresionado con todos los demás aspectos de la película, y es sorprendente el gran espectáculo de terror que D.R. Mitchell ha conseguido crear sin escenas de susto, ¡y construyendo un ambiente de forma excelente! [KVIFF 2014]
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El tema de la película es imaginativo y original (aunque sencillo). Me gusta cómo el director decidió no optar la carnicería sangrienta o molestas escenas de sustos y en vez de eso hizo una película de terror en el sentido tradicional que da miedo por la atmósfera y las tomas del personaje que se acerca lentamente. Pero podría haber sido aún más aterradora y mejor si hubiera sido al menos un poco inteligente. Los personajes de la película actúan como idiotas y sus intentos de matar al enemigo son ridículos (¿qué querían conseguir en la escena de la piscina?) y me pregunto qué pasaría si se fueran a otro continente. La premisa de la película es excelente y excepcionalmente aterradora, pero no garantiza un terror excepcionalmente bueno.
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Personally, the movie "You Can't Escape" didn't really appeal to me that much, but I still think it's at least an average good horror. It could benefit from being a bit shorter, as not that much significant happens in those hundred minutes that couldn't be cut by twenty minutes. Additionally, I believe that in such case, the atmosphere could be even more oppressive.
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Brilliant minimalism. How sumptuous a genre horror film can look when it sets two simple rules that it sticks to dutifully from start to finish! David Robert Mitchell has won my great fondness, mainly because he has managed to make one hell of a genre entry for two million using a specific retro-analog atmosphere and a homogenous script. And that the soundtrack is very reminiscent of Carpenter's classics or Argento's giallo pieces is probably no coincidence.
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