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While watching this trailer for It Follows, something dawned upon me: There really is a strong, visible connection between sexuality and horror films that I never noticed before. Whether it’s playing on the genre’s kitschy history or something much deeper and intuitive, horror films always have sex play into the film’s plot in one form or another. By first appearance, It Follows takes the element and crafts the entire film around sex and adolescence.
Maika Monroe stars as a teenager who loses her virginity to a stranger. Following the event, she begins to have nightmares and visions of someone (or something) constantly following her. As is narrated in the trailer, “Somebody gave it to me, and I passed it to you. […] All you can do is pass it along to someone else.” Without putting too much judgment on the film (given this is just a trailer), It Follows could shape out to be an allegory for unprotected sex and STDs. Whatever it may be, it has me excited to find out more.
It Follows will be released in American theaters next March following its screening at next month’s Sundance Film Festival. You can read the film’s mini-synopsis below.
After a strange sexual encounter, a teenager finds herself haunted by nightmarish visions and the inescapable sense that something is after her.