It Follows review – genre cliches at an art-house distance, Back in the 80s, a slew of 1950s sci-fi horror remakes (The Fly, The Blob, The Thing etc) caused critics to wonder whether middle-aged film-makers weren’t somehow reliving, or revisiting, their childhoods onscreen.
Thirty years later, it’s the late 70s and early 80s that have become the subject of nostalgic desire, today’s genre film-makers returning with addictive regularity to the signature tropes of movies such as John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) and Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead (1981).
Forty-year-old writer-director David Robert Mitchell would have been just starting school when Halloween first opened in October 1978, and he’s clearly grown up with that movie. ..Read More
Thirty years later, it’s the late 70s and early 80s that have become the subject of nostalgic desire, today’s genre film-makers returning with addictive regularity to the signature tropes of movies such as John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) and Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead (1981).
Forty-year-old writer-director David Robert Mitchell would have been just starting school when Halloween first opened in October 1978, and he’s clearly grown up with that movie. ..Read More
