IT FOLLOWS...side effects of losing your virginity

Horror is a genre that has been always underestimated. Full, mostly, of scary stories, attempting to create the audience into atmospheres that will make them jump, scream, fear, or simply create a pop phenomenon but since the beginning the real intention behind all this creepy stories has been the fact of using them as a metaphor to expose, criticize, analyze, test or perform what society is lacking of, the worst scenarios that could been told as a drama or documentary, horror turns it into a scary version of reality showing the nature of such events and its consequences by using something fictional as a way to be straight forward.

Coming from that, we have seen stories of zombies just to expose actions of society and its side effects in a capitalism world, or werewolves that expose the turn out of humanity into primal instinct as a teenager coming to age. Through decades this stories have evolve into alien attacks, animal as predators of humans, and serial killers with motives that mostly teenagers would suffer as a serial preach from your closest church. So after seen all this kind of stories where even coming back from death has been used, not to say, visually we have witness the worst and more sadistic tortures humans can be expose to, that we have got to the point that is hard to feel scared again.

We've lost capacity of feeling scared, surprised, being sitting at the edge of the seat, cracking our knuckles wondering what will be the faith of mostly young souls that are tested in to any kind of faith  just as a test for something from love to become a better self. No doubt that young audiences are the most attracted to this genre but they are also subject of most of the situations where as part of their lost of innocence and lack of experience but full of youth and opportunities make them the perfect subject as mice to a laboratory.

So what now? what possibly could be scarier in times where everybody is connected and knowledge is in everybody's hand. no more killers in the woods, no more ghosts, or monsters, we all know thats no real, that not gonna happen. So whats happening? truth is that all this new era of knowledge has turn human interactions in something easy and casual, so when as young teenagers come to the point of following their hormones and willing to go on dates, putting themselves out to get to know someone and as part of it, get laid and lose their virginity and become an active sexual person.

We are caught in to a new generation full of sexual openness that has brought dozens of diseases just as a warning that is as scariest as any horror movie. Usually the bottom line would be stop having sex as they have been using it in ancient times. No this time. "It Follows" (2015), the new most see and well reviewed film uses this premise to expose teenage and their introduction to sex and dating as a warning of, careful if you use it because if so you will have to use it more. That's its premise, when a young girl, as pretty as innocent decides to finally go on a date with a cute guy from the next county, she gets caught in the game of his seduction just to realize after the moment that has been used for him to pass a curse that he also got the same way.

Nobody knows where it came from, or how to cure it, as many disease no one knows the cure or how to deal with it, so, so far, what they know is that the way to avoid it, will be pass it to someone, but if that someone dies, will comeback to you and will go from there backwards. That's scary as any in reality we know someone or have been informed about all this risks that affect us, and to make it worst in this case, this curse we just got by having sex also will kill us but how? won't be physical but psychological, something will follow us, just like that, without warning, or pattern, will harass us till we can't avoid it so it can kill us.

Doesn't too scary until visions of people we knew start showing up anywhere out of the blue just to start following us and won't stop until we run away to take some advantage of them or we would be able to pass it. As so, this indie film will follow you even when the credits start rolling up. The images will be stuck in your head and the idea of being cursed and no one can see and understand what you are going through make you feel lonely and vulnerable in ways that once you realize will creep you out. No need of blood or big jumps to scare you but the truth about what sex means, it's consequences when you decide to become a player and as part of the deal, to grow up and ace the horrors of life and relationships just to find the good among the worst and that, will definitely follow you for the rest of your life.