The 21-year-old also has two other completed projects arriving soon. In addition to well-received releases in 2014, Monroe wrapped shooting on a pair of movies and just signed on to star in the drama The Tribes of Palos Verdes with Tye Sheridan and Jennifer Garner. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. As the lead in a horror movie, you are the audience, and you have to provide the nuance of real life in very unrealistic situations. That sounds simple enough, but when that teen's life is suddenly disrupted by a traumatic sexual experience and the subsequent plight of being stalked by an unstoppable malevolent force, you have to keep the audience believably engaged. For It Follows, she plays Jay, an easygoing, well-adjusted teenager with a super ordinary suburban life. She looks like the third Fanning sister and feels like she could be seamlessly swapped into any role played by Elizabeth Olsen. Monroe has a haunting, soft beauty on screen. I was just thinking 'I want to play this role. "I feel like both movies have a kind of throwback feel to them. "I remember reading The Guest and thinking 'This is going to be something!'" she says. Follows premiered to broad acclaim in May, then in September her second genre picture of the year, The Guest (directed by Adam Wingard), garnered huge critical praise even if it only got a narrow theatrical release. And yet, like the best horror flicks, “It Follows” just might make you start looking around to see who - or what - is behind you.Monroe had a quietly spectacular 2014. While the film delivers several moments of sheer terror, at times it seems to be more about the dangers of trusting the wrong person than anything else. But the scary conceit that the demon might appear as anyone - from an elderly stranger to a BFF - keeps us on the edge of our seats. Jay’s sister (Lili Sepe) and their friends (played by Keir Gilchrist, Olivia Luccardi and Daniel Zovatto) band together to try to protect Jay. And this story is greatly aided by Monroe’s skill at projecting a sense of strength that elevates her character above merely a scantily clad damsel in distress. While this might seem like an exploitative plot device to set up a scenario in which a pretty young woman must sleep her way through the town to rid herself of a demon, Mitchell never actually presents anything particularly sleazy. He advises Jay to make love to someone else as soon as possible - a suggestion that is not altogether altruistic, since if it kills Jay, it will start trailing Hugh again. This force had been following Hugh, he says, but he passed it to Jay by having sex with her - the only way a potential victim can get rid of it. This force can take on the appearance of any human, whether a stranger, acquaintance or a friend. Then, in the next scene, we see him telling Jay, almost apologetically, that she is going to be followed by something - a supernatural force - one that can be seen only by its intended victim. Her suitor, Hugh (Jake Weary), is a bit older, and it’s clear they don’t know each other well just yet.īut soon they make love in the back seat of Hugh’s car. Though still young, she is self-possessed and confident. Things are languid and dreamy at Jay’s Detroit home as she prepares for a date. The terror lingers as the scene shifts to the film’s central character - Jay, a lithe 19-year-old blonde, played by relative newcomer Maika Monroe (“The Guest,” “Labor Day”). The quiet of her suburban neighborhood at dusk and a pulsating musical score only intensify the anxiety as she jumps into the family car and speeds off to seek refuge. Terrified, she is running in circles from something we can’t see. In a gorgeous, highly choreographed long take, we see a girl in short shorts and high heels burst out of her home. Writer-director David Robert Mitchell, who gained attention for his 2010 film “The Myth of the American Sleepover,” wastes no time before setting the mood with an invigorating prologue.
That’s exactly what happens in “It Follows,” an unconventional horror film that ranks as one of the more brilliant and stylish genre send-ups in recent years. Actually letting anyone in is, at best, a gamble - one that could turn out disastrously.
Some are benign, like the boys leering through a fence at a beautiful girl in a swimming pool. Review: ‘It Follows’ - teenage girl’s worst nightmare – Marin Independent Journal Close Menuįor a teenage girl, it can seem as though everyone is a potential predator.
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