10 Terrifying Horror Films That Exploit Your Everyday Fears
4. Fear Of The Inevitability Of Death - It Follows (2014)
On the surface, the message of this film seemed to be a bastardisation of Mean Girls Coach Carrs approach to sex education dont have sex, because youll get cursed and die but there is far more to it than a message of abstinence. Yes, the curse which will see you followed mercilessly by a malevolent, deadly entity only visible to you and those who share your fate is passed on via sexual intercourse, but what this film is truly about is less the worlds most convoluted STD and more a fear of the inevitability of death. In It Follows, once youre cursed, youre cursed. All that you can do is delay your certain doom by dooming others. Death in this case, horrible, screaming, disgusting death can be delayed, but it can never be entirely avoided. Sure, the film begins to lose its way when it stops playing by the rules it gives itself (it follows; it doesnt follow, muck about a bit and throw things), but nothing serves as a better reminder for the inexorable march towards your demise than the image of a calm, staring figure walking, walking, always walking towards you.
