your soul will fly out of your body

it follows with detroit because everything is a car journey down the motorway away. it follows but the creature only walks so you can escape by getting in a car and driving away (but it will catch up to you eventually) the only thing to do is to pass it on. our young heroes (the friends) manage to kill it but they have to be sure (you cannot spend your whole life looking out of the window for someone walking straight towards you) so they pass it on.

the it can change shape but appears as a uncanny affectless doubles (nice horror touch) but only the victim can see it (though other people may see its effects). . 

things horsemouth also didn't notice the first time? - the friend reading the idiot,  the resemblance of the suburbs to haddonfield, the soundtrack he noticed (the soundtrack is genius).

the friend (a stylish nerd - a velma) has an e-reader in a make-up compact, she reads this selection out loud from the idiot about capital punishment.

'... the worst, most violent pain lies not in injuries, but in the fact that you know for certain that within the space of an hour, then ten minutes, then half a minute, then now, right at this moment—your soul will fly out of your body, and you'll no longer be a human being,'

there is a lot of waiting in this movie. 

horsemouth did notice the influence of the photography of gregory crewdson (a photography of surfaces of ordinary things lit so beautifully that only something sinister can be going on). of course horsemouth should now be sharing with you his readings from susan sontag's on photography (or perhaps bakhtin on dostoyevsky). 

the monster appears in the limnal space of sex between childhood, friendship and the suburbs and adult life and sexuality, at a moment of transition. the film offers the couple as a solution (it's not cronenberg's rabid).  

detroit is of course a city of great and beautiful ruins, a place whose memory is erased in the non-places of the suburbs (where the existence of the black population is erased also). to defeat the monster they return to the municipal swimming pool (a place they no longer go).

michael k. williams the actor who played omar in the wire is dead. omar gets to tell the court the truth (while delivering false testimony) that it's all in the game, that the lawyer who acts for the gangsters profits off the drug war as he (omar) does. omar gets to rip, rob and survive as a hero (while those around him die) but eventually he dies. shot down by a kid. 

yesterday horsemouth went up the marshes and read (and sunbathed) earlier he had walked over to the office to pick up some paperwork he'd left behind after the last meeting (so about four and half miles). later the news and then it follows.  today maybe a meet up. (horsemouth is trying to keep his contacts down, to do all meetings in the open air etc. - he looks at the grauniad pretty much all the stats are on the up).