After carefree teenager Jay sleeps with her new boyfriend 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.
Further Reading
- It Follows: A Modern Day Fairy Tale
- Edmund Burke, It Follows and the transgressive pleasure of the horror movie
- Nicole Wethington, It Follows and The Power of Sex
- Haylie Kohn, An Academic Analysis of the Slasher and ‘It Follows’