It Follows: A Computer Science Ghost Story

Posted by Christian.

So I just got around to watching It Follows. If you're into scary movies, you'll probably enjoy it. And to be clear, I mean scary like Freddy Kreuger, not scary like the slow, inexorable passage of time and the certainty that death takes us all in the end. Actually, now that I think about it, people who like the latter are probably going to have a good time as well.

Still, there's a lot that's problematic about the movie and lots of questions are left unanswered. The movie revolves around the idea of sexually transmitted ghosts. Naturally, we end up asking things like how far do you have to get to pass it on? Can the ghost walk on water? DON'T THESE KIDS HAVE ANY PARENTS?!

file_put_contents(/home/askme/web/anchor/errors.log): failed to open stream: Permission denied
The error has been logged in /anchor/errors.log
Uncaught Exception

Uncaught Exception

file_put_contents(/home/askme/web/anchor/errors.log): failed to open stream: Permission denied

Origin

anchor/config/error.php on line 15

Trace

#0 [internal function]: System\Error::native()
#1 /home/askme/web/anchor/config/error.php(15): file_put_contents()
#2 [internal function]: System\Config::{closure}()
#3 /home/askme/web/system/error.php(111): call_user_func()
#4 /home/askme/web/system/error.php(26): System\Error::log()
#5 /home/askme/web/system/error.php(98): System\Error::exception()
#6 [internal function]: System\Error::shutdown()
#7 {main}