It Follows

It Follows
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	David Robert Mitchell
Produced by	Rebecca Green Laura D. Smith David Robert Mitchell David Kaplan Erik Rommesmo
Written by	David Robert Mitchell
Starring	Maika Monroe Keir Gilchrist Daniel Zovatto Jake Weary Olivia Luccardi Lili Sepe
Music by	Disasterpeace
Cinematography	Mike Gioulakis
Edited by	Julio C. Perez IV
Production company	Northern Lights Films Animal Kingdom Two Flints
Distributed by	RADiUS-TWC Dimension Films
Release date	May 17, 2014 (2014-05-17) (Cannes) March 13, 2015 (2015-03-13) (United States)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2 million
Box office	$20.6 million

It Follows is a 2014 American supernatural psychological horror film written and directed by David Robert Mitchell. It stars Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary, Olivia Luccardi, and Lili Sepe. The plot follows a girl pursued by a supernatural entity after a sexual encounter.

Filmed in Detroit, Michigan, the film debuted at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. It was purchased by RADiUS-TWC for distribution. After a successful limited release beginning 13 March 2015, the film had a wide release on 27 March 2015 and grossed $20.6 million worldwide. It received widespread critical acclaim.

Michigan college student Jaime "Jay" Height sees a film with her new boyfriend, Hugh. In the theater, Hugh points out a girl whom Jay says she cannot see. Afraid, he asks that they leave. On another date, Hugh and Jay have sex in his car and he incapacitates her with chloroform. She wakes up tied to a wheelchair. Hugh explains that she will be pursued by an entity that only she can see, which can take the appearance of any person. Although it only moves at a walking pace, it will always know where she is and will be constantly approaching, and if it catches Jay, it will kill her and pursue the previous person to have passed it on: Hugh. After they see a naked woman walking toward them, Hugh drives Jay home and flees.

The next day, the police cannot find the woman or Hugh, who was living under a false identity. At school, Jay sees an old woman in a hospital gown walking towards her, invisible to others. Jay's younger sister Kelly and her friends Paul and Yara agree to help and spend the night in the same house. Paul investigates a smashed kitchen window but sees no one; Jay sees a bloodied half-naked woman walking toward her. Jay runs upstairs to the others, who cannot see the entity. When a tall man with gouged-out eyes enters the bedroom, Jay flees the house.