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It Follows: Panic! At the Paramount

The Paramount Theater here in Austin, wrapped up it’s annual Halloween selection of movies, Panic! at the Paramount, with this atmospheric contagion movie. Director David Robert Mitchell (he of the three first names) delivers plenty of fright with this film that features a curse, passed on by sexual contact. So there is a provocative concept, layered in guilt which results in a fear induced sense…

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I just watched It Follows (2014)

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:)     :)     :)

Creepy, right?

But, why? 

They're just smiling. 

It's what you see behind the smile, I suppose, that counts.

Dr. Bacon 

(it's really Dr. Rose Cotter, but when there's a Bacon in your midst, one shows some friggin respect) 

here is a workaholic trying to save the world with long hours, bending some rules (treating some patients who don't have insurance - bless her heart), and lying to her patients (kinda... i'll show you what I mean). You want a lil liar in your doctor. The truth, at times, can be damning.

Ex.

Patient: "What's the news, doc?"

Doc: "Well, you've got IT. In about a week, you're going to be covered in boils, painfully grow wings, which will involuntarily fly you into the deepest parts of Hell. It's been real. Nurse, please hand this man a lolli on his way out."

VS

Patient: "What's the news, doc?" (still having "IT")

Doc: "Everything is going to be just fine. Nurse, what do you say we pray for this man??"

Big difference :) 

Dr. Bacon is accustomed to telling her patients that "it's going to be ok." (it'd be "good" to "great" if you had insurance, but for now, "ok").

I'm alright with that, but sometimes, people just ain't trying to hear that. When you've got a person who's mind is imploding, and they're forced to live at a hospital, and see your exhausted, workaholic, pill-passing-out ass every week, and they are still tormented... get the bleep out of here with your "okays".

She comes across a patient who is very troubled and very sexy (Caitlin Stasey). 

You say, Praphit, what does being sexy or not have to do with anything in this instance?"

Everything if she's single. These days, even if she's not.

(Udoka)

She believes that an entity is following her, and smiling at her through the faces of others. It's trying to kill her. Dr. Bacon does not believe her and  says "It's going to be ok." To be fair, doctors don't believe anything that you say; they're going to go by the tests. However, when you have a sexy patient, the rules change.

  "Yeah, yeah evil presence, that's very scary. How would you like to talk about your hallucin... I mean your concerns over dinner?"

Dr. Bacon quickly realizes that her sexy patient isn't full of it when things go horribly wrong in that session, and some sort of curse/entity is now following HER. 

[cue evil laughter]

She must now try to figure out what's going on and save herself. She meets some interesting people. She heads to an abandoned home in the middle of nowhere... at night (great decision), and there's Kal Penn (for some reason). 

All of this without any help, because everyone now believes that she's crazy. And no one likes to associate with people who are truly broken (in this context). Unless it's for a humble brag post for social media.

This is the main reason why I like this movie. It's layered with the real struggles of those with mental health/illness issues. I'm not talking about the mental health issues like being burnt out at work or something (although mental health problems on that level are important to take care of as well). I'm speaking about some of that screaming for help from the world type stuff, and you don't know if you're going to be able to cope. This movie touches on many mental health talking points like stigma, loneliness, and a lot of the nature of trauma. The mental health awareness train rolls steadily throughout the whole movie, until we get to the end, and it kinda crashes and burns.

BUT, even then, the horror fan in me becomes jubilant. No happy endings here.

The concept of feeling like you're losing your mind is always scary. People smiling at you when they shouldn't be is creepy in general. I live in Baltimore. Whenever anyone smiles at me I kick into "fight or flight" mode. This movie has jump scares, some psychological stuff, and the images here, though silly at times, can also be disturbingly entertaining.

On the topic of silliness, the last act of this film starts popping in and out of laugh-out-loud absurdity. Some of the "creepy smiles" made me laugh more than get freaked-out. The best creepy smile was from that sexy patient.

There's a therapist in here with a "creepy smile"... 

Ha! but... it kinda looks like the face of... someone farted, and she knows who it was, but she's not going to tell you (btw - it was her). Then, she starts drooling all over another person. Is that supposed to be scary? :)

There are some plot holes throughout the movie, and the acting is... less than good. I would never talk bad about a Bacon, but everyone else - yikes. The best actor was a man whom Dr. Bacon visits in prison (Rob Morgan). He screams at one point, and it's the best screaming from an actor you'll see/hear all year. Idk if there's an award for that, but there should be.

The casting is kinda off as well in some respects. Dr Bacon's fiance is played by Jessie T Usher. They don't have any on-screen chemistry at all. It was weird. 

I tried to find a photo where they don’t look awkward... even off camera.

(Jessie on the left)

This was the best I could find, and she is clearly leaning away from him :)

It's like she went to rent-a-black dude. For all the white women out there who need a date, and would love for it to be a black guy to impress her friends, there's Rent-A-Black Dude. No returns, if there’s no chemistry.

Plus, Kal Penn, why are you in this movie? You are next-level accomplished in so many ways (aside from acting). It just seemed weird to me. Did the film crew barge into a hospital that he was actually working at (cuz he's super smart, so why not??), and he simply didn't realize? There are times when Kal himself looks surprised to be there.

Despite all of these failings, I liked the movie. One could argue that it bites off a lot from "It Follows", and it has a slight "The Ring" vibe, but those movies don't have Sosie Bacon or Kumar in them.

Grade: B-

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#31PelículasDeHorror #Halloween2023 #ItFollows √

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