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It Follows is a 2014 American horror film written and directed by David Robert Mitchell. It stars Maika Monroe as a young woman who is pursued by a supernatural entity after a sexual encounter. Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary, Olivia Luccardi, and Lili Sepe appear in supporting roles.
It Follows debuted at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and was later purchased by Radius-TWC for distribution. After a successful limited release, the film had a wide release two weeks later on March 27, 2015. It Follows received acclaim from critics, who praised its originality and Monroe’s performance. It grossed $23.3 million worldwide against a $1.3 million budget.
Plot[]
A girl runs out of her house, seemingly being pursued, but denying that she needs help to onlookers. She runs back into her house, then runs out with car keys and drives away. That night, the girl sits alone on a beach, frightened, and calls her parents to tell them she loves them. In the morning, the girl's mutilated corpse remains on the beach.
Oakland University student Jay goes on a date with her new boyfriend, Hugh. At a movie theater, Hugh points out a girl in a yellow dress. When Jay says she cannot see the girl, Hugh is unnerved and asks that they leave. On another date, Hugh and Jay have sex for the first time in his car, but afterwards, he incapacitates Jay with chloroform. She wakes up tied to a wheelchair in the Packard Plant, where Hugh explains that she will be pursued by an entity that only they can see and which can take the appearance of any person. If it catches Jay, it will kill her and pursue the previous person to have passed it on: Hugh. He urges Jay to have sex with another person soon to "pass it on." Hugh waits until a naked woman slowly approaches them to prove Jay is being followed, then drives Jay home and flees. The next day, the police cannot find the naked woman or Hugh, who was living under a false identity. Jay goes to the hospital and it is determined that she has not caught a sexually transmitted infection.
At school, Jay sees an old woman in a hospital gown walking towards her, invisible to others, and flees. Jay's sister Kelly and her longtime friends Paul and Yara spend the night in Jay and Kelly's house to support Jay. Someone smashes a window; Paul investigates but sees no one. Jay then sees a disheveled, urinating, half-naked woman walking toward her and runs upstairs to the others, who cannot see the entity. When a tall man, seemingly with no eyes, enters the bedroom, Jay flees the house by bike. With the help of their neighbor, Greg, the group discovers Hugh's real name, Jeff Redmond, and find his home. Jeff's mother answers the door, and Jay realizes the naked woman she saw in the Packard Plant was in the form of Mrs. Redmond. Jeff explains that the entity began pursuing him after a one-night stand and that it is slow but relentless. He urges Jay to protect them both by passing it to another person through sex.
Greg drives Jay, Kelly, Yara, and Paul to his family's lake house, and teaches Jay to shoot a revolver. The entity arrives in the form of Yara and attacks Jay on the lakefront. Jay's friends hit it with a chair, but it throws and scratches Paul. Jay shoots it in the head, but it recovers quickly and attacks her again, taking the form of Jay's young neighbor. She flees in Greg's car and crashes, then wakes up in a hospital with a broken arm.
Greg has sex with Jay in the hospital, as he does not believe the entity exists. Days later, Jay sees the entity in the form of Greg walking towards Greg's house. It smashes a window and enters. Jay runs into the house and finds the entity in the form of Greg's half-naked mother knocking on his door before he answers and it attacks. Jay sees the entity having sex with a dead Greg. Jay flees by car and spends the night outdoors. On a beach, Jay sees three young men on a boat. She partially undresses and walks into the water. Back home, Paul, willing to take the risk, asks Jay to pass it on to him, but she refuses.
The group plans to kill the entity by luring it into a swimming pool and dropping electrical devices into the water. Jay waits in the pool until the entity arrives with the appearance of her father. Instead of entering the pool, it throws the devices at her. Firing at an invisible target, Paul accidentally wounds Yara but shoots the entity twice before it falls into the pool. As it pulls Jay underwater, Paul shoots it again, and Jay escapes. She alone sees the pool filling with blood.
Back at Jay's house, Jay and Paul have sex. That night, Paul drives through town, passing prostitutes. Yara recovers at a hospital. Later, Jay and Paul walk down the street holding hands, as a figure walks behind them.