It Follows
Movie • 2015 • Horror
ReportAfter 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.
This movie contains 40 potentially triggering events.
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Unanswered Triggers
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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TBN1994
No but the parents are very purposefully not focused on, they’re distant at best
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Abuse
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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TBN1994
No but only because for whatever reason Jay doesn’t seem to process what Hugh did as abuse
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Is someone stalked?
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roughentumble
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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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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TBN1994
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 gaslighted?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
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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Addiction
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Larkinik
Not willingly, but jay is drugged into unconsciousness early on
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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CharlieCharlie
Implies underage drinking in multiple scenes.
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Animal
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AlisonLyon
An ant.
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Are there bugs?
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Diabird
An ant in the pool scene at the beginning (very brief and seen from afar).
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Assault
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Is someone drugged?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Someone is made unconscious by having a drug-soaked cloth pressed against their mouth.
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Is someone held under water?
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TBN1994
Dragged down rather than held but yes
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Is rape mentioned?
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TBN1994
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 restrained?
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The protagonist gets drugged and then strapped into a wheelchair. She is later released
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Larkinik
Main character is misled for the purposes of sex and drugged afterwards, so can be viewed that way.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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TBN1994
A rag of presumably chloroform or something similar is held over Jay’s face till she loses consciousness
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Bodily Harm
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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CharlieCharlie
The main character is smothered with chloroform. Later she is held in a pool by the monster.
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Is there body horror?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
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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Are any teeth damaged?
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Diabird
One of the human forms that the creature takes (at 38 mn) has some real fucked up teeth.
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Does someone break a bone?
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CharlieCharlie
The opening scene shows a dead person with a horribly broken leg.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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lottie727
Leg mutilation early on in the film. Time stamp 3:43 to 3:53.
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Is someone tortured?
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CharlieCharlie
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 eye mutilation?
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groobled
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?
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hsilsbee
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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Children
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Does a kid die?
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Gwendolyn Cox
Teenagers
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
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roughentumble
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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Does a parent die?
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roughentumble
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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Fear
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Is someone possessed?
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groobled
No, but the creature can shapeshift to look like people.
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Gross
Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Nautilus
The entity takes a form that does this when it breaks into the kitchen.
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Does someone vomit?
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Y0kale
SAFE!
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Does someone spit?
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iletarwa
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?
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neoballs
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?
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TBN1994
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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Loss
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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madliv
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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Is there a hospital scene?
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Nautilus
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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Mental Health
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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hsilsbee
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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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is there misophonia?
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cjn2491
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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Is there body dysmorphia?
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groobled
No. Body dysmorphia is not body horror.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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hsilsbee
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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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
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 dick to them (or the like) - akin to a suicide letter.
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Noxious
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Are there underwater scenes?
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TBN1994
In a (fairly large) pool
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Is there shakey cam?
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NoahMichael
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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hsilsbee
Yes, there is one death scene with strobing lights. (Spoiler.... It's shortly after Jay enters Greg's house)
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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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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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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CharlieCharlie
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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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
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Are there demons or Hell?
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TBN1994
It’s never stated or even specualated what “it”’s origin is
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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NoahMichael
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?
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a lot of nudity throughout the entire movie
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Is there BDSM?
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Anonymous
Some pictures of bondage in a playboy magazine shown very briefly
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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TBN1994
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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g3thaunted
"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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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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roughentumble
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 car crash?
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CharlieCharlie
Minor accident is shown. Main character crashes into a mailbox and a corn field. She sustains mild injuries.
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Does a plane crash?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
No flying scenes.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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CarolineMar
No hit by a car, but one of the characters suffers a car accident
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
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Nautilus
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?
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SleepyMoony
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?
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futurafree
a lot of it in the last half of the movie
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