As I noted in last week's post about "28 Days Later," I'm trying to feature a few newer movies for these deep dive trivia quizzes. Today's is only 10 years old, as you can see from the title. I thought "It Follows" was great--about a totally new type of supernatural creature, with its own powers and limitations. It's probably even a tad underrated. So I'll try to help give it some more due. And it's the same format as ever, questions followed by the answers, with many SPOILERS ahead. Also, clearly, Happy Halloween to all those that observe this unholiest of holidays!
Questions:
1) The opening scenes show a young woman who falls prey to the demonic "It" monster. What's her name?
2) In an early scene Yara is reading on a Kindle-like portable device. What book is she reading?
3) What is the name of Jay's date?
4) What are the rules to Jay and her sister Kelly's Trade Game, which she plays on her date?
5) Does Jay win the Trade Game?
6) What reason did Jay's date give to choose the little boy for the Game?
7) Which movie were Jay and her date going to see?
8) What is the name of the movie theater they (briefly) attend?
9) According to Jay, while they're walking around, what does her sister Kelly smell like?
10) What is the number address of Greg's house, which is across the street from Jay and Kelly's?
11) What card game are Yara, Kelly, and Paul seen playing while Jay's on her date?
12) According to Kelly, when does her mom wake up, presumably for work?
13) What is the professor reading to Jay's college class?
14) Paul and Kelly both work at an ice cream store at an intersection. At what two cross streets?
15) According to Paul, behind what business did they find the porn magazines as children?
16) Paul finds a photograph of Jay's date in a porn magazine in the dilapidated house. Name the magazine.
17) What school does Jay's date attend?
18) We hear several announcements over the P.A. system at the school. What room do girls interested in playing club lacrosse need to report to?
19) And to whom should wrestler kids hand in their permission forms?
20) And what show is this year's high school musical?
21) What is the real name of Jay's date? (The one who infected her with the "It" demon.)
22) Who infected this guy with the demonic curse?
23) In the confrontation at the beach at Greg's vacation house, where does Jay hit the demon with a bullet?
24) True or false? The demon "It" creature is completely silent.
25) What injuries does Jay incur from her car accident?
26) According to the television broadcast, what is the name of the reporter covering the 4 alarm fire in West Detroit?
27) According to Yara, how old was she the last time she went to the pool?
28) What first life event did Kelly experience at the pool building?
29) Did Paul used to pee in the pool?
30) What street boundary did Yara's, and Kelly and Jay's parents not allow her to go beyond?
31) While shooting at the It monster, Paul accidently hits a friend. Who?
32) Where on her body is the wound?
33) What is the last name of Jay and Kelly?
34) The It demon takes the form of strangers, and friends and family of its targets. What people known to Jay does the entity impersonate?
35) Where is "It Follows" set?
36) When is "It Follows" set?
37) For the It demon to be passed on, does the sex have to be heterosexual, or a certain type of sex? In other words, does gay sex, or oral sex, or anal sex, or hand stuff count? (Conjectural)
38) Did Jay have sex with one, or all of the guys in the boat? And did Paul have sex with one or both of the prostitutes he passes while driving? (Conjectural)
39) What old black and white movie are Kelly, Yara, and Paul watching at Kelly's house early on in the movie?
40) And here's the biggest question: Could you avoid the It creature for years, or even permanently, by traveling to an island, or another continent? Would the demon have to walk and climb around on the ocean floor and all? (Conjectural)
Answers:
1) Annie.
2) "The Idiot," published in 1868-69 by Fyoder Dostoevsky.
3) Hugh, although we later find out that this is a false name.
4) You scan the people around you, and pick someone you'd like to trade places with. The other person has 2 guesses to figure out who you chose, and why.
5) No.
6) He has his whole life ahead of him, is happy, and (probably a joke) he can go to the bathroom any time he wants.
7) "Charade" (1963).
8) It's the Redford Theater.
9) Cherry Coke, and banana nicotine. Based on what's she's recently consumed.
10) 38748.
11) Old Maid.
12) 5:15 am.
13) An excerpt from T S Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock."
14) Tyler and 12 Mile Road.
15) Barry's Pizza.
16) Playpen, which is a fake porn mag often used in American movies and television programs.
17) Lawson High School.
18) Room LT 431.
19) Mr. Dwiggins.
20) "The Mouse That Roared," which is based on the 1955 novel by Leonard Wibberley, and has been both a stage play and a movie.
21) Jeff Redmond.
22) An unidentified girl he met at a bar, and had a one-night stand with.
23) The right side of It's head, and It's right ear.
24) False. In the attack at Greg's vacation house, it audibly hisses and moans at Jay.
25) A slight head wound (and maybe a concussion), and a broken right forearm, which gets a cast.
26) Rich Kensington.
27) 14.
28) Drinking her first beer, which later caused her to vomit.
29) It seems likely. He brushes it off as no big deal, saying there are tons of chemicals in the water anyway.
30) 8 Mile Road, which is one of the borders of the city.
31) Yara.
32) Her lower right leg.
33) Height. That's in the credits--it's never spoken or written, as far as I could tell.
34) It mimics Yara and one of the kids next door at Greg's vacation house, then Greg (while breaking into Greg's house), Greg's mother (while attacking Greg), and finally Jay and Kelly's dad at the pool building.
35) The city of Detroit, Michigan, and its surrounding suburbs.
36) Writer/Director David Robert Mitchell intentionally made this vague, and contradictory. Characters have cell phones, so that suggests the late 1990's or beyond. But the televisions are huge, thick, 1970's and 80's type monstrosities. Yara's clam shell Kindle-like reading device isn't real. The cars, clothing, and fashions are all mixed up, decade-wise. This was all done to give the movie a timeless, dreamlike feel, and to make it weird and unsettling.
37) This is unanswered in the movie. We only see hetero, and presumably vaginal penetration sex. But the writer/director confirmed in interviews that the It demon isn't homophobic, and homosexual sex will pass it on. But as to what "base" will qualify, it's left unsaid.
38) This is also unanswered. Given Jay's reluctance to have sex with Paul right after Greg's death, it kind of seems like she changed her mind, and didn't have sex with any of the guys. And it's also unknown if Paul has sex with any hookers. But, on the other hand, having sex with strangers would be easier than with a friend. Arguably evil, even if you do tell them what's going to happen next.
39) It's the 1954 movie "Killers From Space."
40) The writer/director directly addressed this type of strategy, and said the It monster could board a plane. And therefore, presumably also a boat. So apparently a plot to hide out in Tahiti or something, and/or to try to trick it into falling into a deep ocean trench forever probably wouldn't work. Maybe the demon only walked in the movie because the characters never fled that far. Since it probably can cover about 72 miles a day (24 hours of nonstop, 3 miles an hour walking pace), it knew it could approach them pretty quickly. Although now I'm picturing the demon waiting around, frustrated, if someone was infected but went up to the International Space Station for months!
For fans of this film, I just learned that a sequel is possibly on the horizon. Filming may be taking place soon, and it may be released in 2025. Stay tuned. And I hope everyone has a great Halloween!
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