8 Disturbing Horror Movie Monsters (And What They Represent)

Whilst the entity in It Follows seems to warn teenagers off from engaging in rampant sex acts throughout a careful and brooding narrative, an argument can be made that the creature itself represents exactly the opposite. Relentlessly following those that engage in sex and brutally murdering them should it catch up with its victims, the 'it' in question appears to punish those that freely dib their dabs in each other with visceral intensity.

But, and it's an important but, it remains that the only way to safely get rid of the entity is for those infected in the chain of victims to continue to have as much sex as possible.

Yes, the classic horror movie conventions of those that are 'immoral' by being sexually liberated are the ones that get their just desserts quickly and painfully, but It Follows is a unique beast by perpetuating that having sex is also the one true way to avoid a nasty death. Putting as many people as possible between you and the creature is far more effective than continuously running away, and those that don't infect anyone else are met with a gruesome end.

Interestingly, the entity in the movie also doubles up contradictorily as a representation of incurable STDs. Something like Herpes or HIV is a disease that once caught, haunts you for the rest of your life - the latter able to kill those that contract it if it develops into AIDS.

In this sense, the entity is symbolic of both the pleasures and the dangers of sex, and how you don't necessarily know which one you're going to get.