It Follows (2014) Limited Edition Review
It Follows (2014) Limited Edition Review
Care-free high school student Jay Height (Maika Monroe – THE GUEST) has just started dating a ‘nice’ guy – Hugh (Jake Weary – ZOMBEAVERS), but they have sex, everything changes and life will never be the same again…
When she wakes up, she’s tied up in a deserted parking lot, where Hugh reveals his dark and disturbing secret… he’s passed on something unimaginable… a deadly curse that will see her relentlessly pursued by evil… A shape-shifting force It follows its victims and will stop at nothing to kill them. The only way to escape, is to pass it on to another person through sex…
The brand-new Limited Edition is set for release on 28 August and is presented in a stunning box with new artwork by Thinh Dinh alongside a 150-page book, with new essays. There will also be Standard Editions in 4K/UHD and Blu-ray, and all versions come complete with a host of fantastic extras, please see full details below.
Believe the hype – IT FOLLOWS – leads the way as a genuinely scary, modern horror classic and now this nightmare inducing freakout fest, from award-winning director David Robert Mitchell, is about to creep up and shock you with an immense new Limited Edition 4K UHD / Blu-ray dual release from Second Sight Films this August.
Lauded by critics and audiences alike, IT FOLLOWS has been described by The Independent as ‘Ingenious…… gets under the skin’ and by Little White Lies as ‘Petrifying and refreshingly original… unremittingly pursues the two greatest themes in both art and life’ and now Second Sight Films has relentlessly chased down the best special features, contributors, and design for a stellar must-have release of this seminal film.
Much like the central entity in IT FOLLOWS writer and director David Robert Mitchell’s seminal horror flick comes at you slowly but surely, getting under your skin like no other horror flick has this millennium. Seen by some as a contemporary take on MR James’ 1911 ghost story CASTING THE RUNES (adapted into the classic 1957 film NIGHT OF THE DEMON) and by others as a parable about HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, IT FOLLOWS was conceived by the director based on several reoccurring dreams he had in his younger years about being followed.
IT FOLLOWS plays out like you’re in someone else’s nightmare and you feel like you’re in that dream-like state throughout. Taking inspiration from Romero and Carpenter, Mitchell’s movie plays to the same visual aesthetics. Mitchell has no interest in explaining the entity’s origins and instead pushes forward with what is effectively an extended chase as Maika Monroe’s Jay does her utmost to avoid a grisly fate at the entity’s hands. Whilst (fortunately) there has (yet) been no sequel to IT FOLLOWS recent horror flick SMILE dared to tread a similar path and in doing so proved that when something has been done so brilliantly and effectively already then you really don’t need any another like it.
Special Features
Dual format edition including both UHD and Blu-ray with main feature and bonus features on both discs
Second Sight Films 4K master produced in conjunction with the original postproduction facility
Approved by director David Robert Mitchell
UHD presented in Dolby Vision HDR
New Dolby Atmos audio track produced by Second Sight Films
New audio commentary by Joshua Grimm
Audio commentary by Danny Leigh and Mark Jancovich
Chasing Ghosts: a new interview with actor Keir Gilchrist
Following: a new interview with actor Olivia Luccardi
It’s in the House: an interview with Producer David Kaplan
Composing a Masterpiece: an interview with composer Rich Vreeland
A Girl’s World: an interview with production designer Michael Perry
It Follows – The Architecture of Loneliness: a video essay by Joseph Wallace
Limited Edition Contents
Rigid slipcase with new artwork by Thinh Dinh
150-page book with new essays by Anne Billson, Martyn Conterio, Kat Ellinger, Eugenio Ercolani, Matt Glasby, Kat Hughes, Jennie Kermode and Katie Rife
Six collectors’ art cards
