The 2014 a girl sits alone at the back of a classroom dreamily gazing out of the window.

She suddenly sees a figure in the distance, an old woman wearing a hospital gown, a woman who

has no place being in a high school in the middle of the day.

This old woman is staring directly back at the girl and is walking slowly but directly towards her.

The girl flees, but she begins to realize that this thing, whatever

it is, is going to follow her and continue following her, and will stop at nothing until she's dead.

By the 2010s, the Saw franchise, the Final Destination franchise, the hostile franchise had all

ended. Horror audiences were no longer after the kind of visceral shocks offered up by

Splat Pack directors like Eli Roth. Instead they were yearning to look back into the past to

revisit the cinema of directors like John Carpenter or Wes Craven. David Robert Mitchell's film It Follows was a perfect blend of

nostalgia with fresh new progressive ideas. A slasher movie that defied all slasher

tropes and yet seemed to fit firmly and success. movie that

the defied all slasher tropes and yet seemed to fit firmly and successfully within the slasher model.

The sort of movie that not only wowed horror audiences around the world

but also high-brow critics at Cannes Film Festival, the type of

horror movie that is now often labeled with the divisive controversial term post-horror.

Join me as we complete our journey through the evolution of the slasher

and explore David Robert Mitchell's modern horror masterpiece.

It follows. Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your

host. If you're joining us for the first time then welcome in this podcast we explore and

dissect the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular sub-genres across

a number of weeks. We are currently in the midst of exploring the evolution of the of the 2014 horror masterpiece it follows.

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