David Robert Mitchell's "It Follows" gets the big screen treatment at The Beverly Theater, bringing that particular strain of suburban dread back to life in a setting built for it. The film follows Jay, a young woman stalked by a shapeshifting entity that moves at a walking pace but never stops coming, passed along like a curse through physical contact. It's a low-budget horror film that punches well above its weight, trading jump scares for a slow-building sense of unease that seeps into every wide shot of empty streets and abandoned houses.

Watching it in the Beverly's intimate 150-seat theater changes the experience from what you'd get streaming it at home. The synth-heavy score by Disasterpeace hums through the room, and the deliberate pacing that might feel slow on a laptop becomes hypnotic when there's nothing else competing for your attention. The film's visual style, with its saturated colors and camera that pans across a scene like it's daring you to spot the thing in the background, rewards the kind of focused viewing a proper theater provides.

For anyone who appreciates horror that lingers rather than startles, this screening offers a chance to revisit (or discover) a modern genre touchstone in a setting suited to its unsettling rhythms.