![]() ![]() Verdict: ★★★ – It’s no Blair Witch Project Still, it’s fun watching the teens trying to solve their supernatural problem in their world without adults. Failing to settle on a character trait, the haunting presence at times metamorphoses into what appear to be casualties of sexual abuse and at other times into the victim’s parents (why?). But It Follows can’t help but trip over its own internal logic by trying to overstretch its premise. Instead, Detroit’s empty streets provide vast spaces for the wide screen format that effectively encourages us to search the screen for new arrivals of terror – for once, a horror movie that doesn’t rely on confined spaces. While the movie is set in Detroit, a favorite location among recent genre works (Only Lovers Left Alive and Lost River), it doesn’t abuse the city’s economic deprivation. We soon find out it takes the form of a slow-moving zombie-like figure, which will violently murder her if ‘it’ catches up. Pretty teen Jay (Maika Monroe) has sex with her new fling Henry, who tells her he has passed on a sexually transmitted curse. While it´s a call back of older horror, it nonetheless attempts to update the familiar set-up of the American teen terror flick. Referencing John Carpenter’s teen slasher Halloween, the slow zooms and synth score of It Follows pays its homage to the ♇0s classics of the genre. After scaring audiences at Imagine Film Festival, it follows Dutch audiences for a nationwide theatrical run.Īppreciation: In its opening minutes, It Follows declares itself to be a horror movie with a penchant for retro stylistics. ![]() It FollowsĪnticipation: Receiving great reviews since its premiere at Cannes Film Festival in 2014, some have suggested writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s second feature, It Follows, is the best American horror movie since The Blair Witch Project. “When Marnie Was There” will be released on May 22.What To Watch Thursday is Overdose’s weekly movie injection: every Thursday we highlight movie releases that shouldn’t be missed! This week we present two movies by new voices of familiar genres. Women and Hollywood included Studio Ghibli’s “The Tale of the Princess Kaguya” in our list of 2014’s best films about women, writing that the film “reminds us what we’ll lose with Studio Ghibli’s imminent closure: wonderfully complex movies about girls from Japan’s premiere animation studio.”Īt least we have one more wonderfully complex movie about a girl from the studio to look forward to. Rumors have been swirling about Studio Ghibli figurehead Hayao Miyazaki retiring, and the studio has revealed that it will likely shut down or restructure when Miyazaki departs. ![]() Joining Steinfeld and Shipka in the voice cast for the English-language version of the film are Vanessa Williams, Geena Davis, Kathy Bates, Ellen Burstyn, Catherine O’Hara, Grey Griffin (“Avatar: The Last Airbender”), Ava Acres (“Adventure Time”) and Raini Rodriguez (“Girl in Progress”). Marnie begs Anna, “Promise me something - that we’ll remain a secret forever.” The trailer suggests Marnie is hiding a secret of her own, but Anna “doesn’t care who Marnie really is” and only focuses on helping her. This spot for the movie focuses on the complicated and intense friendship that Anna, who very much identifies as an outsider, strikes up with Marnie. After discovering a mansion that seems eerily familiar to her, Anna finds some unexpected company in the form of a mysterious girl named Marnie (Kiernan Shipka,”Mad Men”). Robinson’s young-adult book of the same name, focuses on Anna (Hailee Steinfeld), an orphan whose foster parents send her to the country. “When Marnie Was There,” an adaptation of Joan G. A trailer has been released for Studio Ghibli’s latest feature, which unfortunately may also be its last. ![]()
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