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It Follows

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It Follows	comment	It Follows is a 2015 supernatural horror film written and directed by David Robert Mitchell. It debuted at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival in May before receiving both limited and wide releases the following March.The film follows Jay Height (Maika Monroe), a 19-year-old student living in the suburbs of Detroit. After a sexual encounter, she becomes stalked by a nameless entity. The film then becomes an exercise in existential dread: no matter how far Jay runs, she must face the mounting dread of its slow but relentless approach, and the fact that she will never be totally safe, even if she passes it on.It Follows is notable for the audiovisual influence it takes (to retraux levels) from horror films of The '70s and '80s, with Mitchell specifically citing George Romero and John Carpenter as inspirations. He got the idea for the film from a recurring dream that he had as a child about being followed, later incorporating the idea of sexual transmission.In October 2023, a sequel entitled They Follow was announced, with Mitchell returning as writer-director and Monroe returning as the star. The film will be produced and distributed domestically by Neon, and filming will reportedly begin in 2024.
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It Follows / int_1073963d	type	Psychosexual Horror
It Follows / int_1073963d	comment	Psychosexual Horror: In this supernatural horror, after having a sexual encounter with a man called Hugh, a 19-year-old student called Jay Height is stalked by a nameless entity that kills those it catches up to. The stalker is relentless in its approach and she knows that she will never be completely safe, even if she passes it on through sexual intercourse. The movie itself has various sexual imagery and allegories, with the entity being the personification of venereal disease.
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It Follows / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
It Follows / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Tons, upon tons... Clamshell mobile device = birth control Greg’s death = Oedipus The pool trap = suicide via bathtub and electrical appliance The pool filling with It’s blood = the relief of a period following unprotected sex It’s partially naked form = slut shaming / rape victim The garage scene where It’s giant form smashes a hole in the door, followed by It changing into a child and crawling through the hole = pregnancy by rape It is invisible to anyone not affected by the curse = bystanders having difficulties relating to the victim’s experiences. The first time It assumes its giant form. Right before Jay closes her bedroom door, It is in its half naked form, which while creepy, doesn’t seem like an impossible adversary... cue the short feeling of relief as Jay’s friends enter the room, followed by a giant stranger who is significantly more imposing. It's like the visual representation of a potential victim putting a barrier between themselves and an attacker, and the attacker is able to physically defeat the barrier.
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It Follows / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
It Follows / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Word of God states that Yara is the only character that's well aware that she's in a horror movie, but she's too apathetic to care.
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It Follows / int_1828af51	type	Fright Beside Them
It Follows / int_1828af51	comment	Fright Beside Them: More from the audience's perspective than that of the characters. Jay is relaxing with her friends at the beach, enjoying some time away from being stalked by "It". Yara approaches her from behind as she chats with the others. After a few moments, we see that Yara is in fact relaxing in an inflatable tube in the water and has been for some time, which means that the "Yara" walking up behind Jay...
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It Follows / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
It Follows / int_18ce8f1d	comment	Full-Frontal Assault: "It" often appears in the nude, partially or otherwise, as part of its creepily sexualized theme, particularly the first time we as the audience actually see it, wherein it is entirely nude.
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It Follows / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
It Follows / int_1b122c5d	comment	Scare Chord: Brilliantly subverted when Jay spots "It" in her kitchen and locks herself in her room with her friends. When they hear a knock on the door, they open it to find only Yara - only for It, in the form of a truly enormous man with ripped-out eyes to calmly walk past behind Yara in complete silence with no loud sound effect whatsoever.
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It Follows / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
It Follows / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: At the pool, they merely ask Jay to point at It from a distance away, meaning It is within a few feet, not an exact spot.
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It Follows / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
It Follows / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Paul is not approving of Jay's affection towards Greg.
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It Follows / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
It Follows / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Tag, you're "it"!
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It Follows / int_1fdc1aa	type	See the Invisible
It Follows / int_1fdc1aa	comment	See the Invisible: At the pool, Kelly throws a blanket over "It" in order for Paul to aim correctly with his gun.
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It Follows / int_242f638e	type	Pastiche
It Follows / int_242f638e	comment	The rest is also a Pastiche of Sole Survivor, which shares a lot of the same scenes (such as a scene of an old person in a hospital gown walking up to Denise/Jay) with an intention of killing her, and the constantly walking antagonist.
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It Follows / int_24c685bf	type	Good Bad Girl
It Follows / int_24c685bf	comment	Good Bad Girl: Jay is a sweet and wholesome "girl next door" type who dresses fairly conservatively and doesn't come across as particularly flirtatious, but she is implied through dialogue to have an active sex life, even prior to the curse.
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It Follows / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
It Follows / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Jay's father appears to not be in her life. It's implied through dialogue about her past and through the monster's choice to take his form as it throws household items at her in the pool scene that this is because he was abusive.
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It Follows / int_2ab79021	type	Emerging from the Shadows
It Follows / int_2ab79021	comment	Emerging from the Shadows: Done to excellently creepy effect when Yara, one of Jay's friends, knocks on Jay's bedroom door after Jay realizes It is in the house and barricades herself in her room. Once the door is opened, all seems well because only Yara is standing there, until behind her out of the shadows, It, in the form of a tall man with no eyes looms into the room.
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It Follows / int_2eedb330	type	Murderers Are Rapists
It Follows / int_2eedb330	comment	Murderers Are Rapists: Justified. It kills its victims by raping them extremely violently.
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It Follows / int_30de7a51	type	Chivalrous Pervert
It Follows / int_30de7a51	comment	Chivalrous Pervert: Greg shows an appreciation for the female form, ogling each of the three main female characters and having several female admirers at various points in the film. But he drops everything (including one of those attractive females) to help Jay with her whole "stalked by invisible monster" problem, and all-in-all comes off as quite the stand-up guy.
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It Follows / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
It Follows / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: "It" seems to like scaring the shit out of its victims, in one scene even pulling Jay's hair just to scare her before moving in for the kill. Jeff theorizes that it takes the form of loved ones just to hurt its victims more. Hugh (a.k.a. Jeff) doesn't just pass It onto Jay. He passes it onto her, chloroforms her, abducts her, ties her up and forces her to look at It. While some of this may be justifiable due to circumstances, it's unnecessarily violent.
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It Follows / int_3820a9ea	type	Tomboyish Name
It Follows / int_3820a9ea	comment	Tomboyish Name: Jay, short for Jamie.
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It Follows / int_38d17b6c	type	Boss-Arena Idiocy
It Follows / int_38d17b6c	comment	Boss-Arena Idiocy: A non-video-game example. The swimming pool during the climax is a rare example of the heroes falling victim to this, as It Can Think and immediately figures out that it's wandering into an obvious trap.
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It Follows / int_396579	type	Invincible Boogeymen
It Follows / int_396579	comment	Invincible Boogeymen: "It" always knows where its targets are, it can't be seen by anyone except its future victims, and nothing can stop its pursuit: sooner or later, it always catches up. The only way to escape is to have sex with someone and spread the curse to them, or spend the rest of your life on the run.
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It Follows / int_3d480b53	type	Trauma Swing
It Follows / int_3d480b53	comment	Trauma Swing: After the terrifying home invasion incident, Jay escapes and ends up on a swing in a playground.
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It Follows / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
It Follows / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The kids deploy quite a collection of electric devices in the pool to kill It. But the pool is far too enormous for this trick to work anyway, best case, and they use strips that have breakers. And also, It starts throwing these devices into the pool at Jay, most of the time ripping the devices out of their sockets anyway.
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It Follows / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
It Follows / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: The final shot of the film is of Paul and Jay walking down the street together...with a figure in the distance following them at a slow, even pace. Is this figure "It", having recovered from being shot in the head and following its victims once more, or just some random bystander that coincidentally happens to be walking in the same direction as them? There's enough ambiguity to take it either way. The writer of the film, however, has confirmed that "It" is almost certainly not dead.
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It Follows / int_430ae566	type	Ankle Drag
It Follows / int_430ae566	comment	Ankle Drag: In the pool, "It" drags Jay by her ankle back underwater.
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It Follows / int_4637914d	type	Suburban Gothic
It Follows / int_4637914d	comment	Suburban Gothic: The danger lies in a curse that's passed from one person to another by sex and is traveling invisibly between teenagers and young adults in suburban Detroit.
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It Follows / int_4864031b	type	Informed Attractiveness
It Follows / int_4864031b	comment	Informed Attractiveness: Yara tells Kelly that Jay is so attractive that it's obnoxious. Kelly agrees.
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It Follows / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
It Follows / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: While it is implied to prefer raping victims to death, in the climax, It cannot reach Jay directly without risking electrocution, and so it settles for trying to electrocute her in her own trap.
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It Follows / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
It Follows / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Possibly. Greg is dead, Yara is injured and according to the film's writer, It is still alive despite all the teens efforts to stop it. The last shot of the film is Jay and Paul walking hand in hand while farther away, another person walks behind them.
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It Follows / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
It Follows / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "What the fuck, mom?!"
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It Follows / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
It Follows / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Invoked after Jay and Hugh have sex. Jay is peacefully monologuing...then Hugh crawls up behind her and suffocates her with chloroform. While the kids sit on the beach, we see a figure in the background, and our first instinct is to freak out as it might be the monster. Then the figure gets closer and we breathe a sigh of relief as we realise it's just Yara. Then we cut to a shot of Paul sitting and drinking, and in the background, on an inflatable ring in the sea, is Yara. Which means we were right the first time - the figure is actually "It" taking the form of Yara. Later, there are the shots establishing just how "It" kills. As Jay steps into Greg's room, she finds the entity pinning him down and raping the poor guy to death. Even more shocking due to the fact that "It" chose to take the form of Greg's mother.
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It Follows / int_4f40f2b9	type	You Can Run, but You Can't Hide
It Follows / int_4f40f2b9	comment	You Can Run, but You Can't Hide: The only way to survive "It" is to run away from it, as far and as fast as you can. It can't teleport, or even move faster than an ominous walk. But no matter where you hide, It WILL find you when it catches up.
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It Follows / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
It Follows / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The almost bizarrely calm shot of Annie's corpse at the beginning, with her leg snapped backwards over her head.
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It Follows / int_506bf16a	type	Sex Signals Death
It Follows / int_506bf16a	comment	Sex Signals Death: A more literal example than most. When you pass It to someone else, it's essentially a death sentence unless you tell your partner what's going to happen. Also how possibly how It kills; it's sort of hard to tell.
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It Follows / int_56401e68	type	Teaser-Only Character
It Follows / int_56401e68	comment	The movie opens with Annie getting caught by It.
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It Follows / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
It Follows / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Justified. Early in the film, someone asks Jay if they ought to inform the police. She declines because she's not certain if "It" is real or imagined by her because of Hugh; later, "It" reveals itself as Nigh-Invulnerable, completely caustic and/or lethal upon contact, and physically unstoppable, validating her original decision.
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It Follows / int_5a24baf5	type	Sinister Nudity
It Follows / int_5a24baf5	comment	Sinister Nudity: Though the title monster is invisible to everyone except the target(s) of its pursuit, its often perceived as an either partially or completely naked human being. On one occasion, its target was able to see it standing totally naked on the roof of a house.
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It Follows / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
It Follows / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: There are a number of scenes of "It" slowly walking toward its victim, who is obliviously looking away. There is also a case of Meaningful Background Noise at the very beginning. We hear the door to Annie's house open twice while she's walking away, but we only see her father outside.
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It Follows / int_5d68a369	type	Horror Hates a Rulebreaker
It Follows / int_5d68a369	comment	Horror Hates a Rulebreaker: Effectively turns this trope into a metaphor for an STD. Having sex with someone carrying the curse passes it on, causing a malicious spirit (taking the form of a random bystander, and only visible to anyone cursed) to relentlessly stroll towards you, killing you if it catches up and moving back to stalking whoever passed it on. The only solution is to keep moving, or pass it on and hope for the best.
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It Follows / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
It Follows / int_606244c2	comment	Later, there are the shots establishing just how "It" kills. As Jay steps into Greg's room, she finds the entity pinning him down and raping the poor guy to death. Even more shocking due to the fact that "It" chose to take the form of Greg's mother.
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It Follows / int_652bf890	type	Drone of Dread
It Follows / int_652bf890	comment	Drone of Dread: The musical score plays a huge part in this movie.
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It Follows / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
It Follows / int_659ef759	comment	Implacable Man: You cannot stop It. You can barely slow It down. It knows where you are and will find you.
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It Follows / int_6a1c2a6	type	Cosmic Horror Story
It Follows / int_6a1c2a6	comment	Cosmic Horror Story: "It" is fairly eldritch, having no set physical form and no known motivations. Most of all, you can never destroy or even defeat "it". You can either die to the entity (in which case it will set its sights on one of its previous targets again), or you can only delay it by dooming someone else and hope that it does not come back to you. It is heavily implied that the protagonists are about to suffer a horrific death.
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It Follows / int_6e8b95dc	type	The Teaser
It Follows / int_6e8b95dc	comment	The Teaser: The movie opens with Annie getting caught by It. However, in the photograph Jay finds in Hugh's house, Annie is with him in the picture, implying she is an ex-girlfriend of his and he passed It on to her.
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It Follows / int_6f619fab	type	Let's Split Up, Gang!
It Follows / int_6f619fab	comment	Let's Split Up, Gang!: When they investigate the house Jeff/Hugh was holed up in, they split up.
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It Follows / int_798a9e41	type	Auto Erotica
It Follows / int_798a9e41	comment	Auto Erotica: Jay and Jeff/Hugh's sex.
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It Follows / int_7a667c8d	type	A Threesome Is Hot
It Follows / int_7a667c8d	comment	A Threesome Is Hot: Averted. Jay sees some guys partying on a boat and swims out to them, implying she intends to have sex with one or more of them to buy herself time. We don't see any of the "action," just Jay weeping in her car afterwards. It's ambiguous whether she had sex with them or not.
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It Follows / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
It Follows / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: The main characters only get a little bit of gun training with Greg's revolver about halfway into the film, and their lack of experience definitely shows both times they try to use that gun against "It". In particular, both times the shooter fails to account for what's behind their target before opening fire, so Jay nearly shoots Greg the first time, and the second time Paul does hit Yara with his first shot - even worse considering he can't see what he's trying to shoot. He does wisely decide to wait until Kelly throws a sheet over it so he can see what he's shooting at before trying again.
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It Follows / int_7dad519f	type	Sex Is Evil
It Follows / int_7dad519f	comment	Sex Is Evil: The monster is set upon Jay after she sleeps with her fit new boyfriend. Sex is the only way to transfer the 'thing' onto someone else, effectively making the thing a paranormal STD - you can pass it on, but that doesn't get rid of it, since now it's just found a new victim, and once it gets them it comes back for you. Also, once the thing gets you... sex is how it kills you.
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It Follows / int_7eb2bc15	type	Ambiguous Time Period
It Follows / int_7eb2bc15	comment	Ambiguous Time Period: The time period is left subtly vague and undefined. Yara has an e-reader, and modern cars are seen, but only one person has a cellphone (not a smartphone either), the televisions are all tube screens, the characters watch exclusively old movies even at the cinema, there's no mention of the Internet, and the main characters drive cars from the '70s and '80s. It also extends to the soundtrack made up of 80's-style synth sounds.
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It Follows / int_7f9b12a6	type	Chairman of the Brawl
It Follows / int_7f9b12a6	comment	Chairman of the Brawl: When "it" grabs Jay by the hair at the beach, Paul retaliates by attacking the invisible force before him with a folded beach chair. He then painfully learns just how strong "it" really is.
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It Follows / int_8071d6ed	type	Alcoholic Parent
It Follows / int_8071d6ed	comment	Alcoholic Parent: Jay and Kelly's mother is implied to be one, based on the minimal glimpses we see of her. At one point, she pours a bottle of booze into a mug during the morning.
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It Follows / int_80847f95	type	Our Slashers Are Different
It Follows / int_80847f95	comment	Our Slashers Are Different: Teens are being stalked by an invisible, seemingly invincible killer only visible to them and which eventually mercilessly kills them. The movie adds two major supernatural changes to the Teen Slasher formula with a heavy dose of Sex Equals Death: it's a curse of unknown origin passed through sexual intercourse and it only targets teenagers who've been exposed to the curse.
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It Follows / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
It Follows / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: Nobody explains what It is, what It wants (other than to kill), or from where It comes. We only know that Its targeting reticule passes via sex and that It will follow you to the ends of the Earth until It catches you or you have sex. It also has the ability to shapeshift, and can only be seen by those who are 'cursed'.
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It Follows / int_8658cd14	type	Agent Scully
It Follows / int_8658cd14	comment	Agent Scully: While all characters are initially skeptical of Jay's experiences and Jeff/Hugh's explanations, Greg remains completely unconvinced of the paranormal activity unfolding. It doesn't help that he's the only member of the group who didn't witness the confrontation on the beach, which proved It existed to the others.
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It Follows / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
It Follows / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: At least some bearers of the "curse" have knowingly passed it on without prior warning or subsequent explanation, meaning even if the sex is consensual, the consequences are not. Also. "It" seems to kill its victims with rape, which makes its slow inevitability all the more horrifying.
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It Follows / int_933576c8	type	Mighty Glacier
It Follows / int_933576c8	comment	Mighty Glacier: "It" is the culmination of the trope. A Humanoid Abomination that cannot or will not move faster than walking pace, but if it catches you... see the picture in the Nightmare Fuel section for a glimpse of the fate that awaits you.
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It Follows / int_943b920b	type	Electrified Bathtub
It Follows / int_943b920b	comment	Electrified Bathtub: The protagonists try doing this with an entire swimming pool at the end in order to kill It. Their plan fails, partly because It sees the trap coming and turns the tables on Jay, and partly because electrifying an entire swimming pool to the point of killing somebody requires far more electricity than the grid could handle, causing it to short out.
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It Follows / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
It Follows / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Paul appears to be the "Betty" to Hugh's "Veronica", but when he establishes just how dangerous he is, it turns out that Paul is actually the Betty to Greg's Veronica. Not that Greg survives the movie, bringing any particular love triangle to a harsh end.
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It Follows / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
It Follows / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: On top of everything listed under Homage, Jay is named after Jamie Lee Curtis (Laurie Strode) and Jay's sister Kelly is named after Curtis's real-life sister.
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It Follows / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
It Follows / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: The nameless, speechless, unknowable "it." No motive, no back story, no nothing. The only thing known is that if you have the curse, it will walk towards you eternally until it catches you or you pass it on. The total lack of explanation of course adds to the creep factor.
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It Follows / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
It Follows / int_97926168	comment	However, in the photograph Jay finds in Hugh's house, Annie is with him in the picture, implying she is an ex-girlfriend of his and he passed It on to her.
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It Follows / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
It Follows / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: While playing "trade," Jeff/Hugh chooses a child to trade places with, explaining that he'd like to "start fresh." Of course, this is because he's infected by "It." Another early scene features several characters playing Old Maid on the porch. It's a game in which there is only a loser, not a winner, and everyone's only choice is to try to pass the losing condition off onto someone else. Also, the form that "It" takes to menace Jay at school is, indeed, an "old maid" - that is, a creepy-looking old lady. While explaining "It" to Jay, Hugh states that "It's very slow, but it's not dumb." The gang's plan to kill "It" hinges on the entity walking blindly into a pool in pursuit of Jay, ignoring the electrical devices they have set up around the perimeter. It's not fooled for a second, and immediately starts hurling said devices into the water with her. Hugh explains that "It" can look like anybody, whether it's a complete stranger, somebody you know, or even a loved one; whatever lets "It" get close enough to its victims. When "It" kills Greg, "It" has taken the form of his mother.
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It Follows / int_9e86e227	type	The End... Or Is It?
It Follows / int_9e86e227	comment	The End... Or Is It?: Paul shoots It in the pool, causing Jay to see a gigantic cloud of blood permeate the pool. Whether It has been destroyed is unclear. Jay and Paul have sex, and in the final scene, they walk down a sidewalk with a person far down the road following them. Whether it's It or not is left ambiguous.
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It Follows / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
It Follows / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: It could be argued that "It" has one. When "It" attacks there is a repeated, discordant and violent melody which sounds like a mix of the Jaws theme and the infamous screechy glissandos from Psycho, evoking the feeling of being relentlessly pursued by a monster. The leitmotif is introduced in "Heels" (played at the start of the film while Angela, the girl in red heels, is being stalked), but it also appears in "Old Maid" (played when "It" shows up at Jay's school), and "Father" (played when "It" takes the form of Jay's father, who is implied to have abused her).
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It Follows / int_a080d7a9	type	Door Handle Scare
It Follows / int_a080d7a9	comment	Door Handle Scare: When It invades Jay's home and the kids hole up in Jay's room, the camera focuses on the door handle of her room as it starts to move. However, the person seeking entrance is Yara.
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It Follows / int_a0d22bfe	type	Inescapable Horror
It Follows / int_a0d22bfe	comment	Inescapable Horror: Even if you pass "It" along, "It" can always come back. If "It" succeeds in killing someone, "It" goes back to following "Its" previous target. Those who pass on the curse will live looking over their shoulder, always terrified that the creature has worked "Its" way back to them.
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It Follows / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
It Follows / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: The film's Stepford Suburbia aesthetic and synth-heavy soundtrack feel like a homage to Halloween (1978). The scene in which 'It' comes after Jay as she looks out of the window of the classroom at her school is very similar to the scene in which Laurie looks out of the classroom window and sees Michael Myers staring at her. There's also the use of old movies on the television, which was a memorable feature of Halloween. It also pays homage to the invincible killer like Michael Myers who hates sex, although It is literally supernatural and passed along via sex. The scene where It, in the guise of Greg's mother, rapes Greg to death is filmed the same way as Calder's possession by the two women in Prince of Darkness (though, there, it's a Kiss of Death). The angle of Jay getting dressed in her pink dress for her date, looking at herself in the mirror and putting makeup on, calls back to Carrie (1976), when Carrie is getting ready for the prom. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) A nightmarish scene where Jay flees out of class and runs into a couple of girls who can't see It (an old woman) is a shout out to a scene in the film where Nancy also runs out of class and sees Freddy in the corridor in the guise of someone else and her murdered friend in a body bag. So is the scene where Jay runs across the street to try and save her dark-haired hookup who's unaware in his bedroom that It is coming for him, reminiscent of Nancy running around the neighborhood to try and save Glen as Freddy goes for him in his bedroom. Greg's death, which mirrors Glen's death (note the names). Nancy tries to call Glen, who lives down the street, only to realize that he's fallen asleep, so she runs over to try and save him. Jay lives across the street from Greg and notices It breaking into his house. She runs over there to try and save him, but is also too late. The rest is also a Pastiche of Sole Survivor, which shares a lot of the same scenes (such as a scene of an old person in a hospital gown walking up to Denise/Jay) with an intention of killing her, and the constantly walking antagonist.
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It Follows / int_a2492aff	type	Dogged Nice Guy
It Follows / int_a2492aff	comment	Dogged Nice Guy: Paul waits around for Jay's relationships with more aggressive guys to run their course. It works. What that means for either one of them is still unclear at the end.
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It Follows / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
It Follows / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: When It appears as the tall man, its eyes appear as though someone's attempted to gouge them out.
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It Follows / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
It Follows / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: After Jay and Jeff/Hugh have sex, Jay lies on her stomach in the back of the car, smiling contentedly and talking about her young fantasies of what her romantic life would be like. Then Hugh joins her and seems to start cuddling up to her... then he suddenly chloroforms her. Immediately after Jay has an extremely close encounter with the entity in her own home, there's a bit of comic relief as we see some of her neighbors watching in confusion as she dives out the window and makes her escape down the street on a child's bicycle.
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It Follows / int_a55b762	type	Neverending Terror
It Follows / int_a55b762	comment	Neverending Terror: The titular "It" is an Implacable Man Eldritch Abomination that, oddly enough, can't move faster than regular walking speed... the scary part is that it never stops, it always knows where its victims are, and it can go through any obstacle by smarts, shapeshifting or sheer brute strength alone. Anyone who becomes Its target must keep moving, as fast as they can, and never stop.
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It Follows / int_a6bd04e0	type	Rule of Scary
It Follows / int_a6bd04e0	comment	Rule of Scary: Word of God states that the audience should consider this the de-facto rule on how It works, if they have any questions via Fridge Logic. Whatever answer is the most scary or unnerving, that's the correct one.
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It Follows / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
It Follows / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Jeff/Hugh deliberately passed this on to Jay, putting her in mortal danger and by extension causing the death of Greg. He gets no comeuppance beyond spending the rest of his life in Its line of murder. Jay herself, if she really did have sex with those guys she saw at the beach. Since "It" is following her again soon afterwards, she probably didn't even inform the one she passed "It" onto, as they must have died rather quickly.
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It Follows / int_a74ca4fc	type	The Peeping Tom
It Follows / int_a74ca4fc	comment	The Peeping Tom: Near the beginning, two young boys are spying on Jay as she has a dip in her pool (her reaction indicates this isn't the first time this has happened). One of the boys is later seen trying to peer into Jay's bathroom while she's in her underwear. "It" later takes the form of this boy as it climbs through the hole in the shed door later on.
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It Follows / int_a8c6a317	type	Super-Strength
It Follows / int_a8c6a317	comment	Super-Strength: "It" is shown to have pretty abnormal strength on a few occasions — it smacks Paul aside with such force that he flies a few feet, is able to smash a hole in a wooden door, effortlessly jump-tackles Greg to the floor from a standing position, and is able to throw large electrical items — such as tube screen TVs - without much effort.
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It Follows / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
It Follows / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: All of the main characters are in their late teens/early twenties and live with their parents, who are barely present and are oblivious to the situation. Kelly and Jay's mom is implied to be an alcoholic, although some scenes do show that she cares for her girls (or at least, Jay). Her father is implied to be an Abusive Parent, if the Final Battle is any indication. Greg's relationship with his mom is indifferent at best. Even Anne, at the very beginning, doesn't enlist her father's help; she spares him, at the very least, third degree burns.
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It Follows / int_aa2cd0c9	type	Motifs
It Follows / int_aa2cd0c9	comment	Motifs: Water. Annie prepares for death at the beach. Jay is shown in her above-ground pool several times. The gang escapes to a lakeside cabin for a time. Jay swims out to meet some men on a motorboat. The climax takes place in an Olympic pool. Fingers and toes. There are numerous insert shots of Jay's fingers fiddling childishly with things. She also spends most of the film barefoot, with a number of shots showing her toes. "It" also appears barefoot most of the time.
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It Follows / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
It Follows / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: When Jeff/Hugh is first explaining the nature of "It" to Jay, he speculates that the entity sometimes appears as someone its target knows or loves, just to hurt them. This later seems to be the case, as "It" appears to Jay as her (implied to be abusive) father, the peeping tom child, either one of her grandparents, and Yara.
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It Follows / int_b03634f8	type	Right Through His Pants
It Follows / int_b03634f8	comment	Right Through His Pants: Greg doesn't even pretend to remove his shorts before climbing under the hospital blanket to have sex with Jay. There isn't even a pause to indicate he got them off first. Jay also apparently has sex through her panties at the beginning of the movie, and later It dry-humps Greg to death.
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It Follows / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
It Follows / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Implied, but not outright stated in the case of Jay and Kelly's father.
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It Follows / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
It Follows / int_b1bf5c9b	comment	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain: Averted. Shooting It through the head seems to have no lasting effect as demonstrated at the beach. That's why the kids change the plan to kill it with an Electrified Bathtub. That plan fails due to inexperience as well.
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It Follows / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
It Follows / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Greg, who spends a lot of time with Jay and still ultimately doesn't believe anything supernatural is happening. His libido is obviously getting in the way of his good sense. It gets even worse when it seems like he didn't take any precautions after sleeping with Jay.
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It Follows / int_b6060b7	type	Run or Die
It Follows / int_b6060b7	comment	Run or Die: The only true way to prevent It from killing you is to make sure it doesn't touch you.
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It Follows / int_bc97f0c6	type	Jealous Romantic Witness
It Follows / int_bc97f0c6	comment	Jealous Romantic Witness: Paul is established to have a longstanding crush on Jay, and we often watch through his eyes as Jay and Greg gravitate towards each other.
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It Follows / int_bcbf7aef	type	Plucky Comic Relief
It Follows / int_bcbf7aef	comment	Plucky Comic Relief: Yara. It's the only use of her character in the film. She cracks a fart joke, knocks over some stuff at the abandoned house and is playfully in the water while everyone else mopes on the beach - but her character could be completely written out of the the film and the plot would barely change.
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It Follows / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
It Follows / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: While Hugh states the creature subverts this (saying it is clever enough to know who you are, where you are, and how to get close to you), Jay doesn't believe him for some obvious reasons. When she's in class a couple of days later, the creature comes for her...but takes the form of a very old woman in a hospital gown, aka someone who stands out a lot in a college. This turns out to be the quickest way for Jay to believe Hugh and to set about trying to catch the creature.
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It Follows / int_bdacb848	type	Purely Aesthetic Glasses
It Follows / int_bdacb848	comment	Purely Aesthetic Glasses: Yara is bookish with big 80's glasses. It's also obvious the lenses aren't prescription.
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It Follows / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
It Follows / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Greg is seen flirting with a number of girls throughout the film. He even pauses to admire Yara's legs while they're at the cabin.
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It Follows / int_c042eee9	type	Invisible to Normals
It Follows / int_c042eee9	comment	Invisible to Normals: "It" can't be seen by people who haven't been cursed. "It" has a physical presence, however, and can be made visible by doing stuff like throwing a piece of cloth over "It". In one scene, Jay's friends even notice "It" before she does, as "It" makes its presence known by lifting Jay's hair before attacking her.
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It Follows / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
It Follows / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: Masterfully subverted. After seemingly spotting It in her house, Jay runs upstairs in terror and locks herself in her room. When her friends plead with her to let her in, she eventually opens the door and...it's them, not the monster. While comforting her, they suddenly hear a knock on the door, and grab things to defend themselves before opening the door, and...there's still no monster there. It's just Yara, another one of Jay's friends, and as Yara asks what's wrong, with no warning or Scare Chord whatsoever, a seven-foot tall eyeless monster of a man calmly walks towards her in the dead center of the frame straight out of the shadows behind Yara . Played straight at a few other times, though, like the ball that hits Jay's window when she's recovering from being kidnapped by Hugh, and the sudden cut from Annie on the beach to her mutilated corpse.
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It Follows / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Jay's sister Kelly friends Paul and Yara, and neighbor and Old Flame Greg all stick by her side in the aftermath of her trauma, and when the supernatural horror is proven to exist none of them hesitate to guard her and confront it with her. Unusally for a horror/slasher film, there is not a single coward or traitor in the bunch.
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It Follows / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
It Follows / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: The only thing that seems to affect "It" is shooting it in the head, which causes it to collapse on two occasions. In the finale, the results are more ambiguous.
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It Follows / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
It Follows / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: It often takes the forms of naked or partially naked men or women, but they're never a pleasant sight. While none of the sex scenes in this film are played for Fanservice, the second one, in which Jay and Greg have sex, is uncomfortable to watch because Jay is only doing it to pass It onto Greg, essentially giving him a death sentence. She looks anguished during the act. Not to mention, they're doing it in a hospital bed, which is pretty unappealing by itself and Jay has been in the hospital for quite some time and is terrified that It will appear at any time.
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It Follows / int_c8ba12ee	type	Interplay of Sex and Violence
It Follows / int_c8ba12ee	comment	Interplay of Sex and Violence: The Movie. Notable examples include Its near-constant nakedness, Greg getting raped to death, Annie being in her underwear and possibly also violently raped to death (causing her leg to be cracked off), and Hugh chloroforming Jay right after they have sex, aside from the premise itself.
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It Follows / int_c95d04f2	comment	It Can Think: Jeff/Hugh warns Jay early on never to enter a room with only a single exit, given "It" is "slow, but not dumb." "It" seems to be mindlessly driven to a victim and pays little attention to who or what is in the way. But when "It" walks back into the neighborhood looking to kill Greg, it takes the form of Greg himself so that Jay, watching from the window for any sign of "It", doesn't realize "It" isn't Greg until "It's" at his door and therefore can't alert Greg quickly enough. During the pool scene, it seems that "It" knows a trap has been set and tries to kill Jay through the very means meant to kill "It".
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It Follows / int_ca720408	type	They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich
It Follows / int_ca720408	comment	They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich: When Jay returns from the hospital near the beginning, someone, presumably her mother or Kelly, has prepared a snack, along with an unknown pill, and left it for Jay to eat when she wakes up. Much later, after several days have passed, we can see that the same food is still in Jay's room, completely untouched aside from the pill, and mold has started forming on the sandwich.
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It Follows / int_cd427ce1	comment	A Man Is Always Eager: Jeff/Hugh tells Jay that she should have no trouble passing the curse along, because she's a girl (so presumably any guy will want to have sex with her whenever she wants). It's also played straight, as Greg is willing to sleep with Jay to protect her, and Paul immediately offers to take It from her.
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It Follows / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
It Follows / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Some shots go on for a long time, usually the panning shots. In fact, the very first shot after the opening titles is one of these, starting with a pan across the street to Annie's house, and ending when Annie drives off. Later, there is a slow pan around a school corridor when Jay and Greg try to track down Jeff/Hugh and you can see - though the camera shows it no favour - "It" walking off of the campus pavement toward the door of the hallway bearing the school records room in which Jay and friends are doing research.
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It Follows / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
It Follows / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: Aside from a few background characters, everyone is white, even the various forms It takes. Justified, as it's explicitly set in the suburbs of Detroit - which, due to de facto segregation, are indeed mostly white.
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It Follows / int_cfbbd075	type	Porn Stash
It Follows / int_cfbbd075	comment	Porn Stash: When Jay and her friends locate the derelict house that Jeff/Hugh was staying in, Paul comes across a stack of porno magazines... surrounded by balled-up tissues.
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It Follows / int_d139ffaf	type	Genre Throwback
It Follows / int_d139ffaf	comment	Genre Throwback: The whole movie is based on the Sex Signals Death and Ominous Walk trope of the Slasher Movie genre. The films' debut poster invokes the "80s horror movie" brilliantly.◊
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It Follows / int_d3f8ad06	type	Close on Title
It Follows / int_d3f8ad06	comment	Close on Title: The Title happens only after the film is over. Especially because that's the last thing we see someone doing to Jay and Paul.
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It Follows / int_d41a6617	type	Wandering Walk of Madness
It Follows / int_d41a6617	comment	Wandering Walk of Madness: The only defense against It is to keep moving, which leads to multiple scenes where people around Jay or Hugh think they're going insane due to their erratic habit of walking/running/driving - which makes sense to them, but only they can see what's pursuing them.
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It Follows / int_d4c98786	type	Writing Around Trademarks
It Follows / int_d4c98786	comment	Writing Around Trademarks: Notice that whenever someone drinks from a can, they're holding it in a way that hides the labelled side.
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It Follows / int_d820f28	type	Reaction Shot
It Follows / int_d820f28	comment	Reaction Shot: Jay does not point out the fact that she sees It on the roof of the house, giving us as an audience time to infer whatever emotion we feel about the movie at that point.
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It Follows / int_d93c5989	type	Stepford Suburbia
It Follows / int_d93c5989	comment	The film's Stepford Suburbia aesthetic and synth-heavy soundtrack feel like a homage to Halloween (1978). The scene in which 'It' comes after Jay as she looks out of the window of the classroom at her school is very similar to the scene in which Laurie looks out of the classroom window and sees Michael Myers staring at her. There's also the use of old movies on the television, which was a memorable feature of Halloween. It also pays homage to the invincible killer like Michael Myers who hates sex, although It is literally supernatural and passed along via sex.
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It Follows / int_dda12cb3	type	Cat Scare
It Follows / int_dda12cb3	comment	Cat Scare: A few of these are included to keep the audience guessing. One is the red rubber ball that hits Jay's bedroom window.
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It Follows / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
It Follows / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Greg admires Yara as she examines some shelves, and the camera lingers on Yara's bare legs.
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It Follows / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
It Follows / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: Whenever "It" is personally seen "It"'s either in the nude or wearing undergarments or sleepwear that is colored heavily white, which adds to the unearthly appearance. "It" apparently can show up in clothing other than this as well as early on it's hinted that "It" was a woman in a yellow dress Jeff/Hugh could see but Jay couldn't. This is what also lends some ambiguity to the ending when a figure can be seen following Jay and Paul, as he's clearly wearing casual clothing including jeans and a black jacket, but also a white shirt very similar to the color of clothing "It" is usually seen in.
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It Follows / int_e6132e31	type	Old Flame
It Follows / int_e6132e31	comment	Old Flame: Neighbor Greg seems to be on friendly terms with the sisters and first name basis with Paul and Yara, but he is not part of the initial group that hangs out with Jay. We later learn that he and Jay had shared a fling in high school, and despite growing apart since clearly still have trust and attraction for each other.
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It Follows / int_e7e558	type	The Oner
It Follows / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: Some shots go on for a long time, usually the panning shots. In fact, the very first shot after the opening titles is one of these, starting with a pan across the street to Annie's house, and ending when Annie drives off. Later, there is a slow pan around a school corridor when Jay and Greg try to track down Jeff/Hugh and you can see - though the camera shows it no favour - "It" walking off of the campus pavement toward the door of the hallway bearing the school records room in which Jay and friends are doing research. Most notable is when Jay runs from the beachhouse and gets in the car, driving off - it's one shot from inside the car, all the way down the drive and off the road to her accident.
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It Follows / int_e7fe3ece	type	Ominous Walk
It Follows / int_e7fe3ece	comment	Ominous Walk: "It" walks slowly, but never stops until "It" catches you. This is one of the key ways to identify if "It" is around.
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It Follows / int_eb6ea560	comment	Convenient Photograph: Hugh aka Jeff just happens to leave a photograph in a porn magazine that shows him with Annie (who the audience may recognize as the opening victim, explaining how she got cursed and explaining how Hugh learned that "It" upon killing Its latest target resumes hunting the previous target). The part important to Jay and her friends is that Jeff happens to be wearing a letterman jacket in the photograph, allowing them to track him down from the school's information.
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It Follows / int_ecbf37ff	type	Disposable Sex Worker
It Follows / int_ecbf37ff	comment	Disposable Sex Worker: It is implied that Paul plans to pass the curse on to a streetwalker. Whether or not he does so is left ambiguous.
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It Follows / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
It Follows / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Jeff/Hugh. If nothing else, the main characters could have easily had him locked up for intentionally passing the curse onto Jay, chloroforming and kidnapping her, which would have effectively been a death sentence for him if anything happened to her. Instead, they rather casually talk to him on his lawn with Greg being the only one to show him any animosity (and even that is because Greg is convinced Hugh is making everything up to torment Jay). While it could be argued that his actions are sensible because he's being stalked by a murderous abomination — and it served to warn Jay about "Its" existence and how she could pass it on so that she'd have a chance at survival, which is probably more than Jay or Paul did for any of the hapless people that they implicitly passed the curse onto to buy themselves time — the extreme violence of Hugh abducting Jay and chloroforming her is horrific.
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It Follows / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
It Follows / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: The form "It" takes when Jay and friends are in the cabin at the beach, as it climbs through the hole in the door. Also, if you look closely, this form is of the young voyeuristic neighbour who is seen spying on Jay a few times.
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It Follows / int_f88f2449	type	Downer Beginning
It Follows / int_f88f2449	comment	Downer Beginning: The film starts off with Its previous victim running for her life before turning up dead.
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It Follows / int_fa4fd288	type	Humanshifting
It Follows / int_fa4fd288	comment	Humanshifting: One of Its powers. "It" even seems to have some forms it favors for utility purposes, like turning into a tall male form when it needs to break down doors, or a Creepy Child when it needs to get through small passageways.
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It Follows / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
It Follows / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Jay gets a cast on her arm, a few scrapes on her elbows and a bandage on her eyebrow, but otherwise remains perfectly attractive through her trials.
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It Follows / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Little is revealed about Jay's past, but what is known is that she did not have a happy childhood, and it is implied that she did not have a healthy relationship with her family, especially her father.
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