Sure! Here’s a long-form English summary of “It Follows” (2015) — a psychological horror film that stands out for its eerie atmosphere, slow-building dread, and original concept:
“It Follows” is a 2015 indie horror film written and directed by David Robert Mitchell. Blending supernatural horror with psychological unease and a haunting retro aesthetic, the movie quickly became a modern cult classic for its unique premise and disturbing slow-burn tension.
The story centers on Jay Height, a 19-year-old college student living in suburban Detroit. After a seemingly innocent date with a new boyfriend, Hugh, Jay’s life takes a terrifying turn. They have sex in his car — but soon after, Hugh reveals a chilling secret: he has passed on to her a deadly supernatural curse.
The curse is a mysterious entity that takes the form of random people — sometimes strangers, sometimes people the victim knows — and slowly, relentlessly walks toward the cursed individual. If it catches them, it kills them horribly, and then begins to hunt the previous person in the chain. The only way to delay the curse is to pass it on to someone else through sex, but even then, it never truly disappears — if the new person dies, the entity returns to hunt the previous victim again.
Jay, at first skeptical, begins to see eerie figures following her: a woman with vacant eyes, a tall man in the hallway, people no one else can see. With no adults who can understand or help, Jay confides in her sister Kelly, and their friends Paul, Yara, and Greg. The group tries to help Jay, researching the phenomenon and even trying to confront or escape it. But the rules of the curse are inescapable — the entity can look like anyone, moves at a walking pace, but never stops, never speaks, and never rests.
Jay’s attempts to pass on the curse are filled with emotional confusion, desperation, and trauma. As the group becomes more entangled in the nightmare, they try to trap and destroy the entity in a dramatic final confrontation at an abandoned pool — though it’s left ambiguous whether they succeeded.
The film ends on a deeply unsettling note. Jay and Paul, who has always cared for her, become romantically involved, suggesting that Paul has now taken on the curse. In the final scene, they walk down a street together, and far behind them, a person is slowly walking in their direction — a chilling reminder that it may never truly be over.
“It Follows” is notable for its minimalist soundtrack by Disasterpeace, dreamlike pacing, and the way it plays on deeper psychological themes — especially fear of mortality, sexual trauma, and the inescapability of consequences. It avoids cheap scares and instead builds a persistent, existential dread that lingers long after the credits roll. With its haunting ambiguity and fresh take on horror, It Follows is often praised as one of the most original and thought-provoking horror films of the 2010s.