It Follows (Mitchell, 2014): Barbican Cinema, 6.40pm
The presentation, part of the 'Post-Horror Summer Nights season', features an intro from David Church, author of ‘Post-Horror; Art, Genre, and Cultural Elevation'.
BFI review (for the London Film Festival):
Horror cinema has a long history of chastening the sexually active
teenager, with the old sex equals death adage firmly established in the
pantheons of genre cliché. Taking the skewed morals of the slasher
heyday and subverting them into an entirely fresh and stimulating
meditation on sexual paranoia, David Robert Mitchell’s remarkable
shocker has the power to provoke and terrify in equal measures. For
19-year-old Jay, an exploratory sexual encounter subsequently turns into
a living nightmare when she begins to experience strange visions and
the unfathomable sense that she is being followed. Terrified and
helpless, Jay must find a way to pass on the curse that has seemingly
befallen her. The suburban milieu evokes John Carpenter’s iconic
Halloween, and the cyclical persistence of the horror undeniably recalls
Hideo Nakata’s Ring, yet It Follows remains a defiantly original piece
of work, impeccably realised and with enough subtext to keep your mind
buzzing for days.
Michael Blyth
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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