Interview: Director David Robert Mitchell on Nightmares + 'It Follows'

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It Follows, indie writer/director David Robert Mitchell’s follow-up to his acclaimed 2010 debut, The Myth of the American Sleepover, couldn’t be further from the coming-of-age-in-suburbia drama. In terms of tone, that is. His latest is similar in that it deals with teens in suburban Detroit, but the comparisons end there. It Follows is a nightmarish tale of one girl and the unstoppable curse that has latched itself onto her, a ghost who’s hauntings can only be transferred by some good old hanky-panky. The entity follows her relentlessly until it either catches her or she can pass the curse onto another, unlucky person. Mitchell utilizes these two simple ideas to create one of the scariest, cinematic experiences to come along in awhile. ›››

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