It Follows vs The Others

The Others has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 6.6/10 for It Follows). It Follows is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 1h 44m. The Others is the older of the two (2001 against 2015). Both are horror, mystery movies, so they suit a similar mood.

It Follows posterIt Follows2015 VS The Others posterThe Others2001
It FollowsThe Others
Audience score★ 6.6/10★ 7.6/10
Year20152001
Length1h 41m1h 44m
GenresHorror, MysteryHorror, Mystery, Thriller
Country–Spain
DirectorDavid Robert MitchellAlejandro Amenábar
Main castJake Weary, Daniel Zovatto, Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Olivia LuccardiNicole Kidman, Michelle Fairley, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan, Elaine Cassidy

Synopsis

It Follows

When carefree teenager Jay sleeps with her older boyfriend for the first time, she learns that she is the latest recipient of a fatal curse that is passed from victim to victim via sexual intercourse. Death, Jay learns, will creep inexorably toward her as either a friend or a stranger. Jay's friends don't believe her seemingly paranoid ravings, until they too begin to see the phantom assassins and band together to help her defend herself.

The Others

Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

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