Film Theory: The ONLY Way To Beat The Monster From It Follows! (Scary Movie) 

The Proclaimers: I would walk 500 miles, and I would walk 500 more- Vanessa Carlton: I'd walk a thousand miles- The Entity: hold my beer

I just realized how incredibly patient The Entity is. It’s the most laid back supernatural killer ever. It just strolls along everywhere. Do you think it admires the turning of the leaves or pets a dog every once in a while?

Everyone gangster until it learns to use public transport.

You gotta admit, it would still be very terrifying laying in your bed, knowing that a dangerous entity is slowly moving towards you at all times and there is a limited amount of time you can stay at home until you are not safe anymore.

The fact that It walks makes it so much creepier. I mean if it was constantly running at you, that’s also creepy.. but somehow not as much

This film is literally that theoretical problem where you're immortal until an immortal snail catches up to you.

Legit, I constantly think of that movie more than I should.

Alternative: Become a flight attendant. As long as the entity doesn’t get on the plane with you, no matter where you go, you will always be a step ahead.

Tbh I feel that the best way to defeat it is to pass it on to a sex’s worker because if the worker passes it on and the client of the worker dies, the worker would probably just pass it on to someone else, it would be best if there clients were mostly business people who travel a lot so that it would take a large amount of time to go back to the place that the worker was

Wow, I am most impressed that the film makers actually used real locations and timelines that allowed the entity to consistently travel 3mph throughout the film! What attention to detail!!

I remember putting this movie on for my family thinking it was just another scary movie. Well it wasnt JUST another scary movie. And things got awkward fast.

Imagine your alarm doesn't ring one day and the entity, as always for the past year shows up at your house expecting you to be leaving and it just sees you sleeping calmly. I would be so confused

If this happens, just turn it into a reality TV series. The proceeds would fund increasingly elaborate schemes to evade, trap or destroy the creature. When you want to retire, pass the franchise on to a new lead actor, kind of like Dr Who.

“It won’t be an exciting life, but it will be an alive life” - Matpat, 2020

I didn’t know this movie existed, which is strange, because it was practically filmed in my backyard.

I wonder what would happen if the currently cursed person manages to outlive (due to old age maybe?) all the previously " infected" people, leaving the std ghost with no "prey", would it then cease to exist after the final person dies before transmiting it to someone new? I think that would be a way to fully beat the curse ^^

technically, something matpat didnt factor in would be pit stops, the need for food, water, and bathroom breaks. of course these wouldnt take too long, but it still would have an affect

Mattpat: It's not realistic. It requires alot of planning- I think Matt just low-key roasted his main demographic

“Michigan, the land of relentless killers” -MatPat

Alternatively, you could find some way to prove its existence to authorities, which shouldn't be hard with some paint, and test if this thing can be trapped. Authorities will notice it can't be killed and probably opt to find a way to trap it indefinitely. Maybe trapping it in a substance that makes it nearly impossible to move, or a box with a few layers of titanium? Of course, the trapping mechanism will need to be monitored at all times to ensure the creature doesn't escape and if it does, the victim would need to be alerted. If it can't necessarily go through walls or punch through anything but a rusty wooden door, it might be possible to halt it indefinitely. Or at least for the rest of *your* life.

Alternative: Be those people who live in a van you're always moving.

*Matpat creates a way to survive* Quarantine: I am about to ruin this mans whole career

Everybody all worried about the protagonists but that poor demon is doomed to very slowly exercise for all eternity.

The entity cannot fly or phase through walls. If you can make or buy a airship that is self sustainable (like having a rain catchment system and a small farm while also keeping a hydrogen generator and solar panels with a battery operational) you could be out of reach for a while but if you need to go somewhere for a good reason you could powerup the engine to get their fast enough for you to do what you need to do and reach the airship before the entity gets there, if you have time before the entity gets there grab some extra supplies.

One thing I wonder about is if the monster transfers from parent to child? If so then there's no easy way to stop it, but if not then living a long life away from the entity is the best way to extinguish it forever.

"Living with *sexually transmitted demonic curse* can be a hassle." Cracked me up. XD

The most clever thing about this is that when you eventually pass away, ideally at old age, there would be few, if any, of the previous curse-bearers left alive. One end of the chain would be you, but you might be the other end as well. In just one lifetime, by performing this method flawlessly, the entity would hopefully cease to exist along with the chain of sexual encounters. Also, as the entity can be temporarily wounded, it is tempting to just run it through a wood chipper and see how long it takes to regenerate. Might give you a few extra hours in a pinch.

Never saw this movie but the theory was awesome. Loved it.

no, the best solution would be put a GPS tracker on it with an alarm but suppose this doesn't work for whatever reason, next is to make a support group with people who can see the entity(and maybe some that cant to confirm) with enough people you simply take shifts of two people and just follow it, with 60+ people each of them only have to give up at most a day a month stalking it which is nothing. Also if you can pass it on to a previous person that would be great so they can take a break from being chased which would be psychologically exhausting.

MatPat: "When Jay see's the entity at the Northville psychiatric hospital" Me living close to the hospital near Taft Rd "well I'm never going near there again"

When your wife of 5 years starts saying some naked person you can't see is walking towards her

Students: math is useless, what does it even do? Teachers: uhhm, jobs? MatPat: it can save your life from a demon 😃

I like to imagine someone somewhere out there is managing this and he/she is doing all of us a favor

Mattpatt: It can be slowed and bleeds. America: *reloads*

Just become a long haul trucker. Better yet: become an international pilot.

Alternately, make the world aware of the entity, then turn the space program into a rotating astronaut carrier. The entity can't walk into space.

9:11 the average walking speed is 3 mph, which comes out to 72 miles per day, if it never stopped. It literally moves at a walking pace.

This thing on a segway would make the whole film a lot more horrifying.

The entity: exists Quagmire: "Are you challenging me?"

What if the entity adapts and just starts waiting for you to return

You know your in for something when the first words matpat says are “The teen pregnancy”

My biggest concern is the speed assumption. The Entity is sentient (often terrorizing it's mark). After experiencing the scheduled method of managing it, it could change its strategy. For example, it could walk extremely slowly towards you. Suppose it could reduce it's pace to a snails crawl (still moving towards you), then the calculations fall apart and it gets closer to you than your model predicts. If the entity times it correctly, it shows up when you're sleeping. There is evidence in the movie that it can change its speed. Specifically, when the entity gets on the roof and watches the protagonist run away.

A cool movie would be seeing someone living like this and not knowing until the end just why they are doing it.

I don't know if this is a known thing already but my question is, does the entity walk exactly the path you took, or does it take the most direct path to you. If it's a direct path, it would take a little less time for the entity to catch up to you, and your calculated routes wouldn't work, because you don't know if it is taking the path you took or cutting through everyone's backyards and houses just to take the most direct path to you. If that's the case it would be difficult to establish a precise routine, depending on where you go, of course.

I found this very helpful last friday

Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it, but the director has said it would be possible for the entity to board a plane if you travelled overseas.

Imagine if the entity was real and someone had to use this plan forever and then quarantine hits and they can’t go anywhere

6:20 as a person who lives in michigan, this is quite accurate at times.

I hear what you're saying Matpat, the perfect job for this curse is to become airline stewards. Quite possibly would never even know there was a curse if you don't take any stay-cations

MatPat: Manageably out run it Me: If it bleeds, it can die...

I'm not a fan of horror movies, but the idea of an "STD ghost" is quite interesting.

a tip when surviving the entity: its basically a human but its invisble it can shapeshift and also it doesnt use vehicles it is immortal and it knows where you are, at ALL times. Also i think it uses the shortest possible route to you, and it never stops moving.

The best way is to basically lock it in a box, and send all the way to another galaxy.

So at one point in the movie, they show the creature standing on a roof of a building and watching the protagonist drive off. Which shows that it CAN stop walking and that it's willing to climb buildings. Wouldn't this throw a wrench in the plans since we can't really account for how long it would take to climb a building, how many buildings it's climbing, and when it decides to just stop and watch the victim at any given moment?

The real 200IQ play is to sleep with the monster

I wanna see an origin story for that monster. Who is the last one on its list? What started the monsters killing spree?

And I thought all you had to do was lure him into a house with no windows, getting out through the back door and lock him inside, steel doors would do the job.

"Your next Tinder date could depend on it" Jokes on you, I'm in a full time relationship with food.

Um, it has straightline pathing and doesn't walk through walls. Seems like a very easy AI to cheese.

Long distanse relationship is a pretty nice way as well… hits a bit close to home but still

I appreciate u including km in the distances !!!

*Seeing the entity walking towards me* Me: Are you coming for me? The entity: You? Pffffff sure... you wish...

Two things: 1. Getting an injectable tracker (like the type used for animals) and having a friend inject it into the Entity while you keep it's attention and direct them would take all of the guess work out of this. The main benefit to that is that you would then always be able to see EXACTLY where the Entity is. On top of that, it completely removes the guess works and margin for error, so you won't end up being blindsided one day because you messed up the math. 2. I love MatPat, but he seems to be ignoring one of the rules of the Entity here: it always walks in a straight line directly to you. It never follows roads, paths, or anything of the sort, but simply walks in the direction where it can feel you, only changing course to go around objects. This is good because it means that hills, buildings, and the like can very much slow it down, but also very bad because it makes it more unpredictable. You would have to figure out the exact path it would take from where you were previously, where it would run into obstacles, how long it would take to get around those obstacles, and plenty of other things as well. This is simply too many variables to keep track of. I honestly think that this is a very nice and simple solution, but one that will fail eventually due to simply not being able to predict things accurately every time. Not to mention that a single off day where you mess up one calculation (once you are used to the Entity enough to not worry enough to calculate things multiple times), and you are completely screwed. I think that putting a tracker in or on the Entity, and then monitoring it remotely is the best, and safest solution. Humans are way to flawed creatures for MatPat's system to work indefinitely after all

For once I am not scared by a horror movie because I have zero chance of ever catching that curse so any fear from the concept feels irrelevant to me :,)

I have a question. So I have never seen this film before, therefore I don't know if this question was already answered but what would happen if you find the original "owner" of this demon ?🤔

Imagine Your car breaking down just when ur about to leave

SCP Foundation: Now this looks like a job for me

The problem is that as soon as the entity realises your plan, it can just stop and wait for you at your work or house. It's slow, not stupid. In the movie it does stop or go slower than walking, it's just that walking is the max speed.... So ya, good luck with surviving that one... But the thing is, I don't feel love so I'm safe from getting it! 😜

Could the entity be countered with a tracking collar attached to some part of it? It didn't seem to react when a blanket was thrown over it but did react when a chair was slammed into it, it tends to react when meeting resistance as far as I can tell. If this were the case, attaching a tracking collar to it would probably be ignored by the entity, which has the twofold reaction of always knowing exactly where it is and allowing those who cannot perceive it to be able to.

him: finds a long yet possible sollution to the entity virgins and asexuals: done

The biggest advantage you have is that the entity is physical and would be easily provable to those unaffected. Instead of going at this alone, you would have hordes of people coming up with various plans to get rid of it and without a doubt government powers would get involved. Collective manpower could find the curse's origin and find out how to break it, or if not, make life with the entity a livable one.

Great comedy. 5 laugh out loud moments. And some great analysis.

The true definition of “never skip leg day” I bet its calves are buff as heck

Sorry entity, as a weeb there is a 99.99% chance that I will never reproduce.

Honestly, you could probably just be a trucker and it’d be alright

Or use the ol pitfall method. You could put flammable liquid in there, make it a punji pit, or even fill it with cement or epoxy. Just place the pit in a funnel/narrow zone and cover it well to disguise it. The pit will be deep so you need friends to help.

Man gotta love how just cool the entitled like they kinda do their thing like they’re just walking and doing their own thing the whole time

Isn't it a bit unreasonable to assume the entity would use the side walk EVERY time? I'm pretty sure it would most likely cut through a forest, park, or whatever else.

Can't you just dig a hole somewhere (in ur garden or something), get that motherfricker in side the hole and then pour in quick setting concrete and then secure that sh*t.

Is it actually possible for the entity to cross the ocean. Like you said, massive storms and tides and all of these things would totally have their way it. Even if you consider that it's completely tireless

put an Airtag on it, grab an old iphone and stream it on a monitor so you'll know if its close

Here's how to get rid of the entity for good: share it online. Share everything about it online. Videos, pics, stories. After a while, it's gone. Where did it go? I'll give you a clue. *Secure, Contain, Protect.*

"Michigan, a land of relentless killers" Me, a Michigander: yup, sounds about right

I know how to beat the "thing". Dont pas it on, because if he/she dies it will just come back for u. But since the "thing" cant go trough walls, you can try to lure it in to a vault that nobody will ever open again. Or if you can lure it in to a box with thick metal walls and lock it up for good. Then bury the box in concrete. I don't think that the "thing" can teleport. Then live happely for the rest of your life. You could perhaps pass it to a person who knows about it so you have to people that can stand guard if the containment should breach somehow 😉

I love that you gave a shout out to a quality Honda Sivic and showed 2019 mmodel. I got one and this little fuckers are reliable. And it tells you exactly when you need to do an oil change. So you can plan better. Pluss you can average close to 400 miles per tank of gas (depending on your driving style and if you do highway or town).

Video idea: Film Theory or Food Theory: Is the food in Harry Potter safe to eat?? They're cooked by unhygienic house-elves or prepared by magic. Some of the stuff they eat are alive. And beans make them sound like a lion or burst smoke like a train! Which would change something to create such sounds

MatPat: "Scare all the pants onto those 15 year olds!" Me: *Looks down at my quarantine underwear* "Yeah that's not happening!"

I would kinda feel bad for the entity in this scenario, always walking the same route everyday, basically just an afterthought. 😔

JUST PUT A GPS TRACKER ON IT! 😂 Why does nobody come up with this?

That isn't the only way to beat the monster, it isn't even a particularly good way. The thing is susceptible to kinetic energy and stopped by barriers. Keeping it off its feet by shooting it with a shotgun long enough to trap it in a cage wouldn't be so difficult. Once it is trapped, you can live your life without ever having to worry about math. Maybe burying that cage in some cement would help relieve the "what if" factor.

I would love a spoof of this movie where it is from the monster's perspective using the ideas from this video. I can just hear the audible frustration from the creature, where it is just two steps away from the plane the target is boarding just for it to take off.

If the entity is evil it shouldn't be able to enter a church. So I'd say test this theory out; go to different churches and houses of worship. If nothing else perhaps you can find a priest, shaman, some religious dude to destroy the entity or send it back to where it came from.

The way he pronounced Macomb is crazy 6:51

Friend : ''Haha, I set your alarm late as a prank!'' Me : ''Oh no!'' Friend : ''What? It's the weekend.'' Me : **Is violently murdered by an invisible entity**

This movie is the physical embodiment of the meme Virginity is cool, Stay pure

Step 1)Get a remote/work-from-home job and sell your house. Step 2) Buy a pull-behind camper for 1-2 people. Step 3) Drive across the country as much as you want while doing the math on where it is. Your job comes with you, no need to stay in 1 place. Bonus points: Make a computer program that uses your location and math to constantly track where the entity likely is so you don't have to do the math ever again the hard way. Allow for manual adjustments to correct the program from time to time (Maybe an "It's here" button?) This is one of the easiest horror monsters to deal with if you just get a job that allows/forces you to move a lot.

So cool to see film theory talk about where you live

"Accept your fate." well, that option is free.

havent watched this yet but hear me out: sleep with the entity

This information is useful for the Killer snail riddle too