It Follows: an allegory for the pandemic, and more
Phil Hobbins-White
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December 2020
“Somebody gave it to me and I passed it to you… It could look like someone you know, or it could be a stranger in a crowd”, Hugh says to Jay, after he has infected her with a deadly and mysterious virus in
It Follows. But what is “It”? Is “It” a metaphor? This horror film has something in common with some of the greats of the genre – an incredibly wide-range of ways it can be understood.
It Follows’ director David Robert Mitchell said that the film is set in “a mixture of universes, a world we don’t live in”