The cinematography is lush and gorgeous, and you're always on edge. It Follows takes the horror of an STD and elevates it to the next level.
The only way to get rid of it is to pass it along. There is something following him, and it knows that he has slept with Jay it will follow her instead. When she wakes up, tied to a chair, he explains why he's done what he's done. 19-year old Jay goes on a date and after fooling around her date roofies her. "Someone passed it on to me, and now I've passed it on to you." This is the terrifying phrase that explains what is going on in It Follows, a 2014 indie horror flick that is a horror classic for a new generation. It does double duty since it also shows just how timeless the classics by Shakespeare are. This story is equal parts hilarious, romantic, and sarcastic, delivering an excellent experience for teens to check out. While Patrick initially is only in it for the money, that changes throughout the movie. Things escalate both between Cameron and Bianca, and between Patrick and Kat. Cameron takes matters into his own hands, paying off troublemaker Patrick to take her out. Bianca can't date until her grumpy older sister Kat starts to date. While he thinks she's perfect, he can't take her out because there is a rule in her house. It follows Cameron, a new student at school who falls for the beautiful Bianca. It was also a modern retelling of the classic story. 10 Things I Hate About You helped to catapult the careers of Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger with a hilarious and relatable romantic comedy based in high school. Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a classic play, but you might not realize that it got an adaptation on the big screen twenty years ago.
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If you want an excellent movie for today's teens, this is one they won't want to miss. It's a classic for a new generation, and a hilarious ride, carried by the performances of Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein. The realization throws off their ideas of what was necessary and starts them down the path to a crazy night to recapture the experiences they missed out on.īooksmart delivers a great movie that encapsulates how it feels to end high school, female friendship, and trying to recapture the moments you feel like you've lost. That is until they find out that some of the kids who partied hard during high school also got into good colleges. They thought that keeping their nose to the grindstone and avoiding any partying was the right way to go about things. Booksmart aims to break that cycle by bringing an end of school story that is centered on two students who were more inclined to study than party.įor four years, lifelong friends Amy and Molly have worked their butts off to get into good colleges and set the rest of their lives up for success. However, in many cases, these movies follow only the antics of boys as they leave high school and enter the world of whatever comes next, from American Pie to Superbad. Just remember, as you think back to your days of acne and locker combinations, what it took to make it through to the other side and into your adulthood.Movies that center around the end of high school are classics, and every few years a new one hits the big screen. (Especially for those romantic comedy fans: With movies like To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Dude, Candy Jar and The Kissing Booth, Netflix has swept all corners of the rom-com.) Hey, you can even find a teen sci-fi movie with elements of time-travel in there. Whether you want a heart-tugging romantic movie, an awkward cringe comedy, an all-encompassing melodrama or a movie that uses high school as a metaphor for society at large, Netflix has a teen movie that’ll fit the bill. The best teen movies on Netflix do some of these, if not all. Or maybe it’s because teenagers have absolutely no filter so the filthiest jokes come out of their mouths. Maybe it’s because the first blush of love is always the strongest. Maybe it’s because emotions during that age are so raw and powerful, they leave an impression, even years later. It's hard to pin down why these movies are so comforting. And there's nothing more comforting than a swoony, cringey, hilarious teen movie.
What most of us long for is a big comfort-watch. In these times, we're no longer looking for prestige viewing.