Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
In this video, the third in our series on film genre, we look at how the film It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014) adopts the formal conventions and iconography of the slasher horror film, and also how it inverts those formal conventions. Particularly, we'll look at how its use of deep-space compositions, which encourage the spectator to scan the frame for the monster, invert the convention of jump scares, which tend to use confined space. To make this comparison, we'll compare the film to Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978).
In this video, the third in our series on film genre, we look at how the film It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014) adopts the formal conventions and iconography of the slasher horror film, and also how it inverts those formal conventions. Particularly, we'll look at how its use of deep-space compositions, which encourage the spectator to scan the frame for the monster, invert the convention of jump scares, which tend to use confined space. To make this comparison, we'll compare the film to Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978).
