FILM 1331: IT FOLLOWS
TRIVIA: The poem that Kelly's
English teacher reads out loud is TS Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock". The poem seems to share some commonalities with the film.
The theatre featured at the
beginning of the film is the Redford Theatre, a historic Japanese style theatre
with a fully functioning Wurlitzer organ, in the Old Redford neighborhood of
Detroit, MI. The Evil Dead
(1981) premiered there.
The dilapidated house that Hugh hid
out in and that Jay and her friends explored is a house style called the
American Foursquare. This style was popular from the 1890s through the 1930s.
Many floor plans for the foursquare feature "circular" traffic
patters where one can proceed through several rooms and return to the starting
point without ever reversing the path: kitchen, vestibule, living room, dining
room, and kitchen, for instance. In some homes, adjoining bedrooms shared
closets and bathrooms. This kind of "fluid" floor plan would make
this style of house particularly desirable if an escape from "It" was
needed.
Some of the cars shown are from
more recent times. Some are shown to be from the 60s to late 70s era. The time
frame in which this movie is actually set is unknown as some of the technology
does not exist, let alone could exist in the supposed "retro" area.
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