Purple
(She/Her)
I thought the consensus was that the titular "it" was STDs and/or other unwanted consequences to unprotected sex?
Nah, the movie's general attitude about sex is less repressive than that, and the monster stops bothering the person once they have sex again, which, I mean, you don't stop having herpes once you have sex with someone else.
Yeah, I have had a whole lot of very long and detailed conversations with a lot of people about what the monster in It Follows represents, and I don't want to get into my personal pet theory here and now, I am going to say if you're trying to puzzle out any sort of metaphor, and I don't really know why we're spoilering this,
if you're reading the passed-along-by-having-sex thing as literally having something to say about having sex or sexually-transmitted-anything, that reading is fundamentally at odds with the text, which lays out a very specific set of operational rules that just plain do not map to sex in any way (beyond the actual trigger in the film, but like, that's not metaphor). There's a better case to be argued that it's a metaphor for like, stack-based logical operations. Or, you know, being linked to people in a more general-intimacy/public perception sorta way.
I mean, Gremlins 2 is the perfect movie, so there's simply no point in continuing to make movies after nailing it. Not even just Gremlins movies. Hollywood could have just packed the whole thing up when that came out and said Mission AccomplishedOK, I'm not done talking about Gremlins.
OK, so once again I'm going to post this.
And its a funny internet song but I do know this is something Dante didn't want to happen. No more Gremlins movies. And I get it.