It Follows 2018
DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781911325581.003.0002
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‘A Hint of Joy Before it All Goes to Hell’

Abstract: This chapter discusses how David Robert Mitchell repeatedly listed John Carpenter as one of his main influences. It describes the opening scenes of Mitchell's It Follows on a tree-lined suburban street outside Detroit at dusk, which is considered a sister city of Haddonfield from the film Halloween (1978). It also explains the horror prologue as an essential component to the genre that serves as a mini trailer and provides a justification of the monster or as a way of keeping the audience tense or aware that t… Show more

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