It Follows (2014) poster
2014 · horror

It Follows

Directed by David Robert Mitchell1h 41m2014
ElsewhereIMDb6.8297kRT95%Metacritic83TMDB6.67k
  • sombre
  • intense
  • bleak
Movie DNA

Sombre, steady, measured horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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

Our read · It Follows (2014) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive horror entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want slow-burn dread where the monster is a mood, not jump-scare spam.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 12attention 4/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexjump scares

Skip it tonightYou need closure tonight and ambiguous horror will just irritate you afterward.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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