15 Films Critics Got Right (But Audiences Got Wrong)

Rotten Tomatoes: 97% (Average rating: 8.1)

IMDb: 6.8

This one is extremely odd.

It Follows is a terrifying horror film and one of the decade's best. It's fast-paced, it's loaded with scares and it should be easy to watch (for those who can handle just how frightening it is), so its reduced popularity among audiences makes no sense.

Admittedly, It Follows has a truly awful finale, but that comes at the end and hardly undoes all the great stuff that came before it. Other than that, it's a generally excellent film that's brilliantly-made, highly intelligent and genuinely disturbing. There is a certain scene relatively early on where the unnamed entity pursuing the film's protagonist breaks into her house that's by far one of the creepiest movie scenes of recent years.

These lower IMDb ratings do happen quite a lot with acclaimed modern horror films, since many of them are artier, slower and more unconventional (The Babadook and The Witch, two other excellent modern horror films with unfairly low scores, are good examples), but It Follows is an entertaining, relentless thrill ride where the pace rarely drops, so one would expect audiences to have a great time with it.

This IMDb score is unfortunate, but it remains a modern horror classic nonetheless.

Should Be Rated: 7.7