For 19-year-old Jay, life should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. <br /><br /> But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she finds herself plagued by the feeling that someone, or something, is following her. <br /><br /> ‘It Follows’ is US writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s second feature following his poignant coming-of-age drama ‘The Myth Of The American Sleepover’. <br /><br /> Maika Monroe plays the lead character.<br /><br /> “The idea came from David (Robert Mitchell)‘s nightmares and it was… as a kid he had this consistent dream about this thing following him. Sometimes it would be people that he recognized or unknowns, so I think in the movie there are some characters, her father comes in one and then her grandmother in another. I think that is when it is the scariest, when it is someone that you know following you,” says Monroe. <br /><br /> The film premiered last year at Cannes’ Critics’ Week to mostly positive reviews.<br /><br /> Daniel Zovatto, who plays Jay’s neighbour Greg, said he was delighted to
