The opening shot of It Follows could have been lifted from John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978): a wide, tranquil suburban street, dotted with autumn-colored leaves, an ominous synth score pulsing in the background. A young girl, scantily clad in a silky nightshirt, runs from her house, terrified. The camera slowly pans to follow her, its presence stealthy and phantasmal. The girl stares at something offscreen. Then she runs back to the house (the camera forming a complete, dazzling 360), tells her father she loves him, and flees in the family sedan. The next morning, we glimpse her corpse on a Michigan beach, mangled in gruesome, impossible directions. It’s one of the best openings of a horror movie—or any movie, really—at least since last year’s Under the Skin.
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