
The film also pays tribute to older horror films in effective ways. And the way all the friends talk about their childhoods and the antics they get up to gives a feeling of true friendship, allowing us to easily invest in their situation. Her monologue about remembering her youth near the film’s beginning carries great weight because of her delivery. Maika Monroe particularly stands out as an incredibly likeable, sympathetic and genuine lead. But all the main actors feel like real teenagers. With the story centred around teenagers, the film could easily become laughable if the cast weren’t believable. The scoreĪlso builds a tense atmosphere through creating both a confrontational and To build anxiety about where the monster is and when it will strike. Using long takes, interesting camera movement and good actor direction

AsĪ horror film, It Follows has a firm grasp of how to create tension through its Purely from a technical point of view, the film is great. The hyperbolic claims that It Follows is simply not a goodįilm is baffling.
