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Scott Beggs and Mental Floss present\u00a010 Fascinating Facts About It Follows<\/em><\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n

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1. ITS TIME PERIOD DOESN\u2019T FEEL REAL.<\/strong>
\nDavid Robert Mitchell, production designer Michael Perry, and costume designer Kimberly Leitz coordinated to throw us off-balance without us even realizing it. Almost none of the young characters use cell phones, but they exist\u2014and Yara (Olivia Luccardi) has that clamshell e-reader. The vintage cars all look brand-new, but people also have cars from the 2010s. It\u2019s presumably modern day, but all the TVs are from the 1980s, and all the movies the kids watch are classics. Characters also wear bathing suits or heavy winter coats on the same day without appearing too hot or cold. Essentially the movie takes place during a stretch of impossible weather during an unreal era, making it impossible for you to find your footing. (Craig – This is genius!)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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7. ONE OF THE MONSTERS IS JAY AND KELLY\u2019S FATHER.<\/strong>
\nThe monster takes on the form of a middle-aged man when Jay and Kelly try to kill it at the pool. In an incredibly subtle moment, Jay refuses to tell Kelly (Lili Sepe) what the monster has taken the form of, but if you rewatch the movie, you\u2019ll see that the middle-aged man is their father, who is featured in several family photographs in the house but completely absent from their lives. Some viewers theorize he killed himself, and others see his throwing appliances at her in the pool as a nod toward possible abuse, but Jay is definitely protecting her sister.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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4. THE PLAN TO KILL THE MONSTER IS TERRIBLE. BUT THAT’S ON PURPOSE.
\n<\/strong>Jay and her friends plot to electrocute the monster in a pool even though they don\u2019t know anything about what might weaken it, and they were warned directly that it\u2019s not dumb. \u201cIt\u2019s the stupidest plan ever!\u201d Mitchell told Vulture. \u201cIt\u2019s a kid-movie plan. It\u2019s something that Scooby Doo and the gang might think of, and that was sort of the point. What would you do if you were confronted by a monster and found yourself trapped within a nightmare?\u201d<\/p>\n

Mitchell specifically wanted to avoid the trope of the perfect nugget of information about the monster\u2019s vulnerabilities magically dropping into the gang\u2019s lap.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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