It Follows
Movie • 2014 • Horror
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After carefree teenager Jay sleeps with her new boyfriend, Hugh, for the first time, she learns that she is the latest recipient of a fatal curse that is passed from victim to victim via sexual intercourse. Death, Jay learns, will creep inexorably toward her as either a friend or a stranger. Jay's friends don't believe her seemingly paranoid ravings, until they too begin to see the phantom assassins and band together to help her flee or defend herself.
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Your Triggers
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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No but the parents are very purposefully not focused on, they’re distant at best
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Abuse
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone gaslighted?
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No one intentionally gaslights someone, but someone is not believed, because she can see things others can't. I'm not sure to what degree she doubts her own perception because of this.
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There’s a scene that’s left purposefully ambiguous as to whether Jay has passed the curse onto a group of unknowing men.
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Is someone stalked?
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Sort of. It's not a human doing the stalking, but the creature does follow the characters wherever they go. It finds them and hunts them down relentlessly, breaking into homes and following them when they go on a beach trip.
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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No but only because for whatever reason Jay doesn’t seem to process what Hugh did as abuse
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Are there abusive parents?
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the monster is disguised as a character’s mother and then kills him and SAs his dead body
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Addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Implies underage drinking in multiple scenes.
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Not willingly, but jay is drugged into unconsciousness early on
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Animal
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An ant.
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Are there bugs?
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An ant is lowered into a pool and drowned.
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Assault
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Main character is misled for the purposes of sex and drugged afterwards, so can be viewed that way.
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Is rape mentioned?
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No but it’s sort of talked around. People who don’t know about the entity ask jay about “what really happened that night?” Assuming she’d been assaulted (which technically she was) and was in denial about it.
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Is someone drugged?
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Someone is made unconscious by having a drug-soaked cloth pressed against their mouth.
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Is someone restrained?
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The protagonist gets drugged and then strapped into a wheelchair. She is later released
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Is someone held under water?
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Dragged down rather than held but yes
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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A rag of presumably chloroform or something similar is held over Jay’s face till she loses consciousness
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
145 supporters
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No bleeding or anything of the sort, but some monsters have entirely black eyes that almost look caved in.
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Is there excessive gore?
141 supporters
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The first death near the beginning is pretty gory. After that, I would say it has an average horror movie level of occasional gore.
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Is someone tortured?
128 supporters
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Torture imagery when the main character is tied up early in the film. She isn't physically tortured, but shows traumatization from the event.
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Is there body horror?
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I think one scene qualifies (about three minutes in to the movie, according to another commenter): We see a dead person whose extremely broken leg (so to speak) has been placed in a sickeningly unnatural angle - bent the opposite way to how a leg normally bends by the knee, toes pointing towards the person's stomach. The way the body is positioned with the bent leg looks absolutely bizarre, and we're definitely meant to be shocked, disturbed and disgusted by the sight.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Leg mutilation early on in the film. Time stamp 3:43 to 3:53.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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The main character is smothered with chloroform. Later she is held in a pool by the monster.
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Are there dislocations?
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At the very start of the movie a characters body is shown dead at the beach severely brutalized and contorted, it's super brief but also really creepy. Fast forward a bit when she's talking on the phone with her dad at the beach if you wanna miss that.
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Does someone break a bone?
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The opening scene shows a dead person with a horribly broken leg.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Does someone die?
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From start. Kinda the plot of the movie.
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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This ones a bit tricky... The onus that drives the plot is passed on by sex, and one character offers to take it off another character's hands, knowing full well what would happen. Furthermore, the ending is ambiguous on what was accomplished and could very well be seen as self sacrifice for the sake of being together "at the end"
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Does a parent die?
41 supporters
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The main character's father is dead before the movie begins, his death is mentioned, and (spoilers) the creature shapeshifts into him at the end of the film.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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The protagonist is knocked out and wakes up bound to a wheelchair at one point. It's not the longest sequence, but it's there.
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Fear
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Is someone possessed?
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No, but the creature can shapeshift to look like people.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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SAFE!
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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The entity takes a form that does this when it breaks into the kitchen.
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Does someone spit?
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There is a farting scene a character does for laughs but it's quick, plus another scene involving pee.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
52 supporters
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Cops do appear and question the main character. They are not praised or talked about in any negative/positive light, but are on screen for a small amount of time.
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LGBTQ+
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Is there bisexual cheating?
33 supporters
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I’m not sure why there were yes votes. There is no cheating in this movie, nobody is in any established relationship beyond jay/Hugh “dating” but that ends quickly
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Live Theatre
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Loss
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Medical
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Is there a hospital scene?
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One around the middle of the movie, following a car crash, and one at the end as one character recovers from the events of the climax.
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Is electro-therapy used?
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No, but there is a drawn out scene where characters attempt to lure the evil entity into a pool in an effort to electrocute it. Various electric appliances are plugged into outlets near a pool beforehand. They are thrown in, but no electrical violence occurs.
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Mental Health
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No, but someone decides to stop running from the killer and sits down to wait for certain death. While waiting, she calls her parents to say she loves them and that she's sorry for sometimes being a d**k to them (or the like) - akin to a suicide letter.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is there misophonia?
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It’s one of the last scenes of the movie. A character is reading something out loud with a mouth full of food. It’s very noisy. And there’s no background music to drown it out.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
39 supporters
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Not explicitly, but the main character exhibits several PTSD symptoms throughout the movie, due to the central conceit of the plot.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Could be seen that way from POV of characters who carry the curse.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
34 supporters
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No. Body dysmorphia is not body horror.
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Jay spends a hell of a lot of time dissociated
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Not exactly, but there are multiple times when characters are trapped for a certain amount of time in one room, and also a near drowning at the end of the film.
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Natural Disasters
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
68 supporters
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The sequence in which Jay is bound in a wheelchair could be considered shakey cam, but it was a fairly brief scene.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Yes, there is one death scene with strobing lights. (Spoiler.... It's shortly after Jay enters Greg's house)
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Are there underwater scenes?
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In a (fairly large) pool
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
53 supporters
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Not language, but in the film the monster is portrayed often as people with "unusual" body types. A very tall man, an elderly woman, and a disheveled woman with possibly bashed in teeth. The fact that these people are supposed to be scarier because they're "abnormal" can have ableist undertones.
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Is there hate speech?
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Hate speech, no. Dog whistles, yes. The characters have a short discussion about being told never to go south of 8 Mile. Anyone who’s lived in Southeast Michigan will know this as a racist and classist dog whistle of a statement
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Does the black guy die first?
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No, but the brown guy does.
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
Are there demons or Hell?
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It’s never stated or even specualated what “it”’s origin is
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Sex
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"Relationships" isn't quite right. A mother possessed by "it" rapes/kills her son but it's quick and mostly implied
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Is there sexual content?
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The movie is based around sex as the conduit for "it" and sexual activity is a major theme in the plot and throughout the story.
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Are there nude scenes?
69 supporters
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a lot of nudity throughout the entire movie
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Is someone sexually objectified?
55 supporters
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I kind of think that is one of the core concepts of the horror here. The use of sex as a transmitted curse. The need to be chosen and sexualized for that. The 'evil thing' therefore, becomes a predatory entity. I could be wrong though.
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Is there BDSM?
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Some pictures of bondage in a playboy magazine shown very briefly
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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It’s not stated but I believe it’s implied paul’s first time is with Jay at the end of the movie
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
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Is someone homeless?
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No, though at one point it is revealed that one character has been living in very poor, dangerous conditions.
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
90 supporters
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Ending is ambiguous. I find it hopeful and uplifting and sweet, others might find it to be depressing.
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Vehicular
Does a plane crash?
23 supporters
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No flying scenes.
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Does a car crash?
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Minor accident is shown. Main character crashes into a mailbox and a corn field. She sustains mild injuries.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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No hit by a car, but one of the characters suffers a car accident
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
80 supporters
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Gore 3 minutes in of a messed up leg, and right at the climax of the film there's a lot of blood clouding up a swimming pool
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Does someone drown?
45 supporters
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There is a scene where a person is held under water and there is a threat they might drown
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Is there gun violence?
41 supporters
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a lot of it in the last half of the movie
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