The first pick is the movie date gone wrong with Hugh Jeff (as transcribed), with praise for the great old-school movie theater.
Skipping the first scene, Annie's death, draws an objection: she runs out in a nightgown and high heels, changes into more sensible shoes while her dad asks if she is okay, and every parent in this movie is an F minus.
One list goes chronologically: the first movie date, then Jay waking up handcuffed to a chair, with the chloroform scene called really creepy; the scares are structured so the first kill leaves you waiting a long time, as in Halloween, before the wheelchair bit jumps it up a level.
A favorite is Jay in the backseat of the car talking about her hopes and dreams, shot so dreamily before he tenderly kisses her on the shoulder and the chloroform comes out.
Annie's leg facing completely backwards prompts a question for Craig about an NFL injury like it, with Tyquan Thornton named.
In the handcuffed-to-a-chair scene all the rules are laid out at the start in a remedial way, like an urban legend or a creepypasta, and it is shot from Jay's perspective as an ingenious bit of POV filmmaking.
The naked lady on the railroad tracks slowly walking over to Jay turns out, per the research, to be Jeff's mom, who shows up again later; the demon is said to get a little lazy later, going from Greg to Greg's mom to grandpa and dad.
The list continues with the classroom scene where Barbara Bush comes after her, the topless no-teeth peeing lady at the sleepover, and the giant black-eyed tall guy, called a favorite character in the movie.
The crunchy glasses white t-shirt lady who gets shot in the neck and just gets up, the tall guy coming back and creepy Michael Cera guy, the neighbor, are listed, and the lake house is called one participant's most rewatchable scene.
Greg dying while his half-naked mom grinds on him is called the worst way to go, followed by the naked guy in the house and the pool trap, a 10 out of 10 idea for a movie set piece though a terrible idea for killing the entity.
The kids should have a dumb idea, throwing electronics into the pool; Jay's dad as bearded t-shirt guy, the headshot, bullets going through water and missing, and Jay protecting her sister, who can't see it, are enjoyed.
Another pick is Jay waking up after Jeff has drugged her; the lake is liked and called the Dan Campbell moment, and Greg getting fuck-killed by his mom is also offered.
The crazy tall guy gets the Todd Parker award for best character entrance and is called so scary; Mike Lanier is a 7'7 basketball player in real life with a twin, given a black eye and white pancake makeup.
There is something freaky about somebody super tall, as in Backrooms, Barbarian and Patrick Ewing in Exorcist 3; the way he comes in behind her is singled out.
The answer is being post 2008 housing crisis. — Chris Ryan
Post-occupy, abandoned houses and economically disappointed millennials still living at home are added.
A 2015 Funny or Die spoof, What Follows After Watching It Follows, came at the tail end of Funny or Die; nobody thinks or remembers that the spoof was funny.
Her side bangs, with a lot of flat ironing involved, are very 2014.
One pick is Annie's leg broken all the way backwards, likened to the Tyree Kale (as transcribed) injury.
Another is the Scooby-Doo gang trope of kids trying to figure out what's coming after them.
A third is the director doing multiple Halloween homages: the opening street shot, Jay walking with her friends toward a camera going backwards like Jamie Lee and her two friends, and Jay in the classroom looking out the window, called homage rather than ripoff.
Breaking into Greg's house while she calls him on the phone, and being afraid to fall asleep, are called Nightmare on Elm Street.
The It Follows sports-trade jokes; the Disasterpeace score; the pick-someone game; Paul as the supportive friend; the simple premise; the unobserved followers; the supportive group of kids; the repeated water imagery
Early, one participant had it for this category (transcribed 'one stage the best'): a legacy of the movie coming out in 2014 is that it became a joke, for a player traded to a team that goes downhill and then traded again, so it follows sports trades, with Corey Brewer and Jeff Green offered as the 2014 hoops examples; in the category itself the nomination returns, with the jokes about It Follows named again as that participant's pick.
The phenomenal score was done by Disaster Peace, picked because the director was a huge fan of the video game Fez, and it pounds in a loud theater; a track maybe called Detroit has about 8 million streams, and it and Drive are the synth-y soundtracks that went.
Detroit again, and the pick-someone-in-the-room-you'd-want-to-be game, which adds to not knowing when the movie takes place, since people now would be on their phones on the date.
A tangent recalls a name game played to pass the time, and an actor, movie, actor version.
Paul, the supportive friend of the final girl who is secretly in love with her, is a favorite horror trope, a real Justin Long type played by Keir Gilchrist, angling for sex early.
The simplicity of premise: the director never said it out loud when pitching because it was too embarrassing, yet it is a perfect elevator pitch, three words, sexually transmitted demon, unlike Barbarian.
The unobserved followers: the guy outside the restaurant on the date, the lady in white at Jeff's high school and the guy following Jay and Paul in the last shot leave it ambiguous whether they are free; the soccer girl coming home flips it, recalling the background ghosts of Haunting of Hill House.
The group of kids gets along and everyone believes her, a nice hangout vibe set up when the girl farts in the first 40 seconds; she graduated and stayed at the JC, hanging out with her younger sister's friends while everyone else left.
The consistency and repetitive imagery: all the water, the pool, the woman peeing, the lake, the swimming pool at the end.
The backseat of the car shot is named, and the pick always gone back to is Jay fondling the flower coming out of the concrete before she gets drugged, her last moment of innocence, along with Jay in the car talking about her dreams.
The handcuffed-to-the-chair 360s are earned because they are always from a POV, though drone shots are out.
Shots in the pool and the pool filling with blood look cool for a movie that was not expensive.
The category is someone's flex and the lake house comes up; the movie theater is named, a real theater called the Redford Theater outside Detroit that plays the Wurlitzer organ before the show.
The Castro Theater in San Francisco also plays a Wurlitzer; it is not the True Romance theater, which they filmed at the Vista in LA.
No way at first, since the director mentioned sexually transmitted demon; the earlier pitches are ST demon, STD and Itch Follows, with STD colon Itch Follows also offered.
Later the winner title the hosts came up with is called STD colon It Follows, distinct from the earlier STD colon Itch Follows proposal.
