12 Most Disturbing Moments In It Follows Ranked
By Mia Tucker
"It Follows" opens in a sunny suburban neighborhood. Then, a young woman named Annie bursts out of her house and sprints down the street. Shrieking horror music plays. She's clearly running away from something, but nothing seems to be chasing her. Annie pauses and looks back towards the house, waiting for her moment. Eventually, she makes it into her parked gray sedan, then drives away.
Later that night, Annie sits by a lake. Her back is to the waves, and she's watching the road. Her cell phone rings and she answers it, and she tells her dad that she loves him. She then looks up, as if seeing something approaching, but a wide shot of the beach reveals nothing — just the sandy shore illuminated by the headlights of the car.
The next morning, everything is still, overcast, and gray. Annie lies dead on the beach, with one leg twisted around and snapped into an unnatural angle, a bone jutting out of the skin. Her face is relaxed and unreadable. We don't know what killed, but whatever it was, it was both fantastically strong and unfathomably cruel.
The shot of Annie's dead body is definitely the goriest image in the film. It's undeniably haunting. The only reason it's not higher on the list is because, by the standards of this film, it's a little obvious. Yes, a teenager's mangled body is indeed a sure-fire way of making audiences gasp, but as the film unfolds, it will reveal that it has far more insidious ways of making us suffer.
