Q&A: David Robert Mitchell on the Dread of It Follows

It Follows is terribly eerie. It’s also clever and stunningly composed, viciously getting at inevitability—the doldrums of the suburbs, our eventual end, the onset of such anxiety as we enter adulthood. And of course, reprieve from it all. It’s initially hard to move past its conceit though, this sexually transmitted haunting that overwhelms both your fear and…