For 19-year-old Jay, autumn should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she finds herself plagued by strange visions and the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay and her teenage friends must find a way to escape the horrors that seem to be only a few steps behind.
»How I see it, and how I tried to convey it in It Follows, sex is the way the haunting starts but it's also the way to survive as well. So it's not as simple as using sex to honour or reference those older horror films, which, don't get me wrong, I grew up watching and love. In my film, sex is the only way you could survive, and that felt like something new. I've never seen that before in a horror film.« (David Robert Mitchell)
David Robert Mitchell
Born in 1974, in Michigan, USA. After finishing high school, he enrolled in Florida State's graduate film programme. He had started making shorts in high school. It Follows, his second feature film, and The Myth of the American Sleepover, his debut full-length film, were selected for the Critics' Week section of the Cannes Film Festival.