I appreciate that Mitchell wanted to make this more existentially dreadful and not confine himself and his characters to working within a set of rules, but... there’s ambiguity, and there’s simply being vague.

It Follows represents a compelling evolution in how studios and audiences can (and should) conceive of its monsters.

No question that the storytelling here is impressive; the story itself, however, is a bit thin.

It Follows feels like a new thing in horror. It feels like a movement toward the conceptual idea of what drives horror. Strip down the overburdened tropes and monsters that make up what horror was for decades, and leave just the essentials.