History Headscratchers / ItFollows

** Could also be that everyone involved misunderstands "its" means of locomotion. Perhaps "it" can [[OffscreenTeleportation warp itself closer to the victim]] if it moves too far out of range or takes some means of transportation (being InvisibleToNormals, it could easily sneak into anyone's car. [[ParanoiaFuel Even yours!]]) It could also be that "it" is more of a phenomenon than a single entity, and that "it" automatically generates a new "instance" of itself near the victim occasionally. (I have read too many ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' articles.)

*** A more feasible option might be to try trapping It at the bottom of a sufficiently deep pit and then, before It can climb out, burying It in quick-drying concrete (both achievable on any major construction site, with help and preparation). In principle, all the SuperStrength in the world won't help if the creature's unable to get any leverage to apply it, and while It presumably doesn't need to breathe or eat and won't smother to death, trapping It long enough for all current targets in the chain to die naturally would in theory break the curse. (But the whole point of It is that it runs on nightmare logic, so even these measures would most likely fail somehow -- perhaps It can cause an earthquake that would free Itself.)

*** Or it could be that the creature, clearly not being stupid, would realize that it would use alternate means to reach it's target if necessary. We don't know, perhaps it simply boards a bus/train/plan/boat unnoticed and silently sits in a corner if it needs to. Likewise, if you travel to the ISS, it could just wait until the next spaceship flies there and just take a ride on it.

** Jeff may have been using the fake name and house as an easy out if he ever needed it. Sleeping with Jay seems like it was a "Plan B" for him. Seeing how they didn't sleep together until after he saw It following him again, and the amount of masturbation he was obviously doing makes me think that he was purposely not trying to infect anyone else with "It" until he knew he had to.

* What happens if the person whom It is following dies some other way (ie, in a car accident or suicide,etc.) Would the creature suddenly stop the cycle, or would it just go back to the person before?

* The rules of It's invisibility are a little spotty. When we see it from Jay's pov in some scenes, notably the pool battle, it casts a shadow, but not when we see the area from the other's pov. That's somewhat forgivable, either as a production mistake, or It somehow existing on a different plane of reality, but if It has physical presence at all times, as shown by them throwing a blanket over It, why didn't it displace the water in the pool and leave a very visible outline?

* How does the kill chain work if a previous victim has sex again? What I mean is, say Jeff had sex with somebody else (let's call her Betty) after he had passed the curse to Jay but before Jay dies. Would Betty be on the chopping block or can it only be paased by the current target?

** According to the creator, oral and anal sex counts as sex for the entity. If she indeed had sex with all at the same time (there was 3 guys afterall....) then perhaps the entity would have had to go after all of them instead of just one. But then again, that's WMG.
** I always assumed the three guys, seeing a young girl with a cast on her arm and a far away look on her face swimming out to them to have sex, immediately remembered "do not put your dick in crazy" and just gave her a ride back to shore. I mean, it came after her pretty damned quick.

*** The screenplay available online has a few other differences with the finished film. The fact that they chose to not film the whole sequence seems to be a choice to leave it ambiguos and up to the viewer to decide what happened with those three guys.
** Innocent me thought that she was convince that It couldn't cross water and was just trying to get into a boat.

*** Mmm sorry but WordOfGod did confirm that It rapes to death, is just that the movie probably wasn't going to show it because it would be too graphic, is PG-13 if IIRC.

*** Mmm sorry but WordOfGod did confirm that It rapes to death, is just that the movie probably wasn't going to show it because it would be to graphic, is PG-13 if IIRC.

*** Mmm sorry but WordOfGod those confirms that It rapes to death, is just that the movie probably wasn't going to show it because it would be to graphic, is PG-13 if IIRC.

*** It didn't rape Greg to death. It jumped on him, killed him by some method we don't see, and then just kind of dry humped him.

** Not to get too brutal or graphic, but I assumed it raped her to death. It killed Greg by raping him, and I assumed her leg got in that weird, unnatural position to snap off during the rape or when she tried to fight back.

* How on earth does anyone who's infected manage to [[spoiler:go out on a date and have sex with someone in order to]] pass the curse on? Obviously a date isn't required, as shown by [[spoiler:the girl who picked up Hugh in the bar, Jay sleeping with (as implied) the guy(s) on the boat,]] or simply just paying for sex. But Hugh has gone on multiple dates with Jay. And the first date that we see them on, they go see a movie. A movie! You know, sitting in a dark theatre, surrounded by people any of whom could try and kill you, limited vantage points and any potential escape possibly hindered due to the volume of the crowd. And we know, [[spoiler:from the attack at the beach,]] that "it" doesn't have any qualms about attacking in front of others, so why on earth would Hugh, who knows "it's" following him, think that would be a good idea? Furthermore, why didn't he just do what had been done to him and pick up some rando in a bar? It would be much faster and, let's be honest, Hugh was decent looking so he shouldn't have had much trouble finding someone to sleep with. Instead he [[spoiler:sets up shop in a house rented under a fake name and takes Jay out multiple times.]] All this does is increase his chance of "it" reaching him.

* Secondly, [[spoiler:after the showdown at the pool Yara]] is in the hospital for her bullet wound. Isn't it standard hospital protocol to call the police when a gunshot victim shows up? How did they manage to explain that one? Or is it merely a case of AdultsAreUseless?

** One thing in favor of "It" is that unless the cursed guy was really rich to begin with, paying for sex becomes increasingly difficult as being perpetually on the move would drain your finances and make it hard to find new sources of income.

* We know that the demon kills by burning its victims with his touch, but the very first victim we see in the movie appears all broken and mangled, so what happened there?

** Maybe It has a limit to how much it can utilize those abilities in a given amount of time? Maybe that's why it moves so slowly and teleports only after the target moves out of a certain range? Maybe It's been on the hunt for so long that It is actually tired?

* If It truly is completely unstoppable and able to adapt to perfectly circumvent any obstacle in order to reach its target, why doesn't it do that all the time instead of just using only the sufficient amount of effort to get through any given situation? It clearly has superhuman abilities, so why doesn't it use those as a rule?

* The rules of It's invisibility are a little spotty. When we see it from Jay's pov in some scenes, notably the pool battle, it casts a shadow, but not when we see the area from the other's pov. That's somewhat forgivable, either as a production mistake, or It somehow existing on a different plane of reality, but if It has physical presence at all times, as shown by them throwing a blanket over It, why didn't it displace the water in the pool and leave a very visible outline?

* It doesn't seem to be able to use vehicles, only go after you one foot. But what if you successfully crossed the ocean to get away from It? Would It be allowed to use a boat or plane then, or would It have to swim across the ocean to get you?

* If the victim has a threesome (or moresome), who does It follow? There's only one It and It only follows one person at a time--is it just whoever happens to make sexual contact with the victim first, with the other person(/people) being safe by minutes? Or at least until that person makes sexual contact with the new victim?

* It threw Paul and left scrapes on his legs when he hit It with a chair, so It's clearly capable of hurting people other than Its victim, but then It didn't try to attack the others in the pool, even though they were getting in Its way and hurting It. What exactly can It do to other people?

** There's also the possibility that whoever initiated the curse (the gods, some witch, Chtulu, whatever) made "it" appear very far away from the original person, or after a time delay. This would allow a chain to build up before "it" starts to kill people, and thus the others in the chain could begin to figure out whats happening before it reaches them. Given enough people in the chain and enough time, people would figure it out.