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.
