I'm I'm Salutations, welcome to Pod Mortem.

I'm Travis Hunter, joined as always by my co-host, my sister, and my brother-in-law.

Hi, I'm Renee Hunter Vasquez.

Hi, I'm John Paul Vasquez.

This week, we're broadcasting live from the Redford Theater discussing the 2014

supernatural horror film It Follows.

The film was written and directed by David Robert Mitchell and stars Micah Monroe as Jay,

Kier Gilchrist as Paul, Daniel Zavato as Greg, Jake Weary as Hugh, and Olivia Lucardi as Yara. The film received

praise from critics and audiences upon its release for its originality and style, and according to

Wikipedia, it had the best limited box office opening in the U.S. in 2015. What did you guys

think of it follows the first time you saw it? I think we had rented it the first time that we saw it. And I enjoyed it because it was, I can't say that I've seen a movie ever with the same premise. No, not at all. Or really with the same execution either. Like, it felt very different. It almost felt like a European film. Like, if that makes any sense. All right, all right, yeah. There was some art film tendencies. Yeah, for sure. But I remember enjoying it the first time that I had seen it because it was very different. No, it was good. I do remember that we liked it when we seen it. Uh-huh. I think we seen it, what, that one time? We saw it the one time and then we haven't seen it again. At all, right? So we watched it for the show. It basically is like watching. There are a couple intense visuals that I remembered, but for the most part, it was almost like watching it again for the first time. Yeah, I remembered bits and pieces, but I didn't remember a lot of no, not at all. I actually saw it, I think, twice in theaters. I don't know why I do this. No, I liked it a lot the first time I saw it and the second time, obviously, if I went back. But yeah, it was really just the premise. Yeah. It's very original. And the way that it's executed, like you said, it has a different feel to it. There's a lot that's borrowed from filmmakers of the past, and we'll kind of get into that in a bit. But especially in 2014, it had a very original feel to it. Yeah, it did. And I feel like a lot of things have stolen from it since, or at least aped the atmosphere was trying to create.

Right.

We'll get into it a little bit more, but I feel like this coming out in 2014 and then

stranger things coming out in 2016, there's some real discussions that should be had.

That's a really good point.

I've heard a couple things about those brothers, to be honest.

Yeah, about a lot of things that have been lifted.

Not paid homage to, but lifted, yeah.

The stealing ones.

Yeah, I didn't know anything about that.

The stealing brothers.

But, yeah, I think David, Robert Mitchell's going to sue somebody.

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