The Girl in the Red Shoes: It Follows (dir. David Robert Mitchell, 2015)

The whole meaning of It Follows is compressed into its prologue. A teenage girl runs through a quiet suburb, wearing only a nightshirt and red spike heels. A few people ask if she needs help; she declines. We realize she’s running from an invisible adversary. We see her place a call to her parents on her cell phone (wait — isn’t this the ‘80s? Why are t…