It’s long been a sort of tradition in the slasher
sub-genre of horror films that those who choose to have sex are doomed to
succumb to a horrific death. It was enough of a trope that Wes Craven’s
post-modern slasher film Scream
listed it as a surefire way for any of its characters to seal their fate. It’s
no coincidence then, that It Follows,
written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, uses sex as the precise
mechanism by which its characters attract the attention of the slow-moving, but
undeterred creature that wants to take their lives.
