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• @nyx@social.xenofem.me 2026-06-04 09:00

  @rowb1t@social.xenofem.me @MURRUMUR@social.xenofem.me @unmind@social.xenofem.me the thing about It Follows is that it *is* in a sense about an STD but it's also a very midwit interpretation of the film. the Entity propagates through sex like a virus, but that tells you more about what the Entity can do, how it works, what the rules are, what sort of body it is :xf_ascended-spinoza: rather than what it's "about" or what it's a metaphor for. It Follows is another one of my top horror movies of the 21st century thus far and I think part of that is self-evident by how timeless it feels despite being probably the most paradigmatic example of the 2010s horror revival before it became reterritorialized by soy "elevated horror" A24 slow-burn psychological horror tropes. much like Skinamarink it gets at something about horror that transcends conventions that make us think of horror as a "genre" like fantasy or sci-fi and is more like, about the emotion of fear itself. but it has a very different take on it from Skinamarink. not exactly a deconstruction of horror but more like a decomposition of it, stripping-down the components of horror media to its basic parts then making something completely new where the horror is not in the "text" in either a modern or postmodern way (i.e. either symbolic of something or reflecting on the symbolism itself in a meta way) but rather creates a conceivable concept and then sets it loose to do fucked up things to humans. basically It Follows to me was riding on the wave of speculative realism and renewed interest in Lovecraft in the 2010s but made use of the conceptual framework of like "weird fiction" or "philosophical horror" like that of Lovecraft and Ligotti (and the first season of True Detective which came out right around then) in such a subtle and skillful way that hardly anyone to my knowledge has ever noticed and commented on how well-engineered it is.

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