The sexually-transmitted curse in It Follows might first seem unstoppable, but even if it can’t be stopped, it can still be beaten pretty easily. In 2015, director David Robert Mitchell’s moody, creepy It Follows took horror-loving moviegoers by storm. A stunningly shot, excellently scored film, It Follows also presented a concept fans hadn’t heard of previously, and truly original films can be hard to come by nowadays. It Follows was a critical and commercial hit, and many remain disappointed that an initially-teased sequel never came to fruition.
It Follows centers on a college student named Jay (Maika Monroe), who hooks up with a guy named Hugh after a couple of dates. While normally the biggest danger to come out of that would be an unplanned pregnancy or a unfortunate STD, Jay is forced to deal with a much bigger consequence. Through sex, Hugh passed on a curse to Jay, a creature who can take the form of any person, that only those afflicted can see, and that absolutely will not stop pursuing her until it catches her. And when it does, a brutal death is on the menu.
At the end of It Follows, Jay and her friend turned love interest Paul seem to have defeated the creature, although they aren’t sure if it’s dead. The final scene heavily implies that the creature is still after them though. Even if one can’t kill the creature to end the curse though, there is a logical way to keep it at bay, provided the target in question isn’t living in complete poverty.
It Follows: The Incredibly Easy Way To Defeat The Movie’s Curse
While director David Robert Mitchell has hinted in interviews that the creature might possess powers we don’t see onscreen, it’s impossible to take that into any real consideration for the purposes of producing a method to defeat the It Follows curse. One can’t fairly consider any number of nebulous, unknown powers Mitchell’s monster might well have at its disposal. So, this method is designed to stay alive when faced with the creature’s onscreen abilities.
Said creature endlessly pursues those infected with its curse, and while that’s bad, its means of doing so is simple: slow, methodical walking. While this walking won’t be hindered by human problems like getting tired or hungry, it’ll still take a considerable time to catch up. The characters in the film try to outrun it via traveling up north a bit, although the creature of course catches up. However, if one were able to take a flight to a new location, such as a remote island or a far away continent, the creature could take months, if not years to walk there, and that’s presuming it can walk through the ocean.
While plane tickets aren’t generally cheap - although no-frills budget flights to far away places do spring up from time to time - as long as an infected person could find some way to go far enough, calculate about how long it would take for the creature to walk there, live there for a little less than that length of time, then hop another flight of considerable distance, it would be basically impossible for the It Follows creature to ever catch up at its walking pace. Sure, living life on the run wouldn’t exactly be much fun, but it’s far better than the alternative.
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