It FollowsPub Date : 2018-08-27DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781911325581.003.0003
Josh Grimm
{"title":"Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: Deconstructing The Entity","authors":"Josh Grimm","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781911325581.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325581.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on how David Robert Mitchell's It Follows stands out from its horror brethren through ingenious design and use of the entity. It explains Mitchell's preference to use a shape-shifting killing machine instead of the traditional masked murderer, which added another dimension of suspense to an already-horrifying concept. It also discusses how a standard slasher/stalker/serial killer is grounded by the fact that it's a human committing the murders since that individual suddenly cannot take flight or turn invisible. The chapter reviews the basic rules of Mitchell's entity in It Follows, which implies that the entity will follow people, it can look like anyone, it's slow but not dumb, and it can be rid of by sleeping with someone else. It emphasizes that the threat is only as effective as the rules surrounding an antagonist when introducing a new element.","PeriodicalId":377751,"journal":{"name":"It Follows","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132451224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
It FollowsPub Date : 2018-08-27DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781911325581.003.0006
Josh Grimm
{"title":"‘I Can’t Do This’","authors":"Josh Grimm","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781911325581.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325581.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses the easy classification of David Robert Mitchell'sIt Follows that most closely falls into the slasher subgenre with its crop of teen characters. It explores the open universe concept that provides depth to It Follows's characters, resulting in audience involvement that moves beyond spectatorship. It also looks at the attribute binding the films characters Kelly, Paul, and Yara whose concern is at a level far beyond that is typically seen. The chapter highlights how the three characters in the film were quick to believe the main protagonist of the film named Jay before they saw any form of physical evidence of the entity's existence. It mentions teen romance as the most prevalent and popular subgenres that often takes the form of first dates, parties, and prom.","PeriodicalId":377751,"journal":{"name":"It Follows","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115291397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
It FollowsPub Date : 2018-08-27DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv13841bg.6
Josh Grimm
{"title":"Where Goes the Neighbourhood?","authors":"Josh Grimm","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv13841bg.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv13841bg.6","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter looks at one of the reviews of David Robert Mitchell's It Follows from a local paper in Detroit, which describes the film's surroundings as disorienting but well-suited to the local landscape. It mentions Mitchell's emphasis on the importance of Detroit as the city where he grew up and as the site for his first movie The Myth of the American Sleepover. It also talks about Detroit's economic decline, with the city losing over a quarter of a million people between 2000 and 2010 and half its entire population since 1950. The chapter explores other horror films that discuss urban poverty, such as The People Under the Stairs (1991) and Candyman (1992). It highlights the difficulty of separating issues of class and race in US horror cinema.","PeriodicalId":377751,"journal":{"name":"It Follows","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129386350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
It FollowsPub Date : 2018-08-27DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv13841bg.4
Josh Grimm
{"title":"‘A Hint of Joy Before it All Goes to Hell’","authors":"Josh Grimm","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv13841bg.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv13841bg.4","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses how David Robert Mitchell repeatedly listed John Carpenter as one of his main influences. It describes the opening scenes of Mitchell's It Follows on a tree-lined suburban street outside Detroit at dusk, which is considered a sister city of Haddonfield from the film Halloween (1978). It also explains the horror prologue as an essential component to the genre that serves as a mini trailer and provides a justification of the monster or as a way of keeping the audience tense or aware that they are watching a horror film and not a drama. The chapter assesses the striking opening vignette of It Follows, which is more than a typical horror film opening that features the killer attacking. It mentions Mitchell's first movie The Myth of the American Sleepover in 2011, which played a role in creating the world of It Follows.","PeriodicalId":377751,"journal":{"name":"It Follows","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115128983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
It FollowsPub Date : 2018-08-27DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781911325581.003.0007
Josh Grimm
{"title":"Path to Victory","authors":"Josh Grimm","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781911325581.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325581.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter investigates the final scene of David Robert Mitchell'sIt Follows as the ultimate conclusion for whomever is tethered to the entity. It reviews the entity that possesses the ability to move through obstacles at a walking pace until it gets within close proximity to its target. It also discusses the urban legend, which is a story that has exposition, an inciting incident, climax, and denouement. The chapter analyses how certain narratives become salient through the urban legend and become enmeshed in the fears, concerns, even pleasures of a particular cultural moment. It explores how the urban legend is useful as a warning about a local threat within the context of the horror genre.","PeriodicalId":377751,"journal":{"name":"It Follows","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116140795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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