It Follows

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“A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.”

While a lot of horror movies elude to sex being something to kill you, this movie screams it. It’s almost like a form of STD. Although that makes me wonder – does it still transfer if you use a condom?

Casual sex can be enough of a risk without paranormal involvement. At first, you think that maybe this boy didn’t know but as we soon find out, the seduction itself, the whole dating scene was a facade. One of the scariest scenes, to me at least, was that moment of postcoital bliss and then – BAM! Chloroform time!

The other analogy at play here is people not really believing the victim. Since you can only see the activity if you have been, well, infected for lack of a better term, then others see you as crazy. Date rape victims experience this all too often.

If you’re old like me, you may remember the old chain letter urban legends. You would have to send the letter to others to keep the curse from getting you. This goes along that same line.

So what would you do? Could you knowingly pass on the entity to someone else?

SPOILERS FROM THIS POINT

Since there is no way to actually kill something when we never even find out what it really is, they pass it to what appears to be a sex worker. This is brilliant and horrifying at the same time. It most likely will be passed on again fairly quickly but to whom? Anyone. Because even if you didn’t get it from the sex worker, what if your partner did?