It Follows (2014)

Director: David Robert Mitchell

Starring: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Lili Sepe

A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.

After a promising opening the rest of the film takes a trip down boredom lane, even though the title suggests something sinister. For a horror/thriller (or any genre for that matter) the film has a very lazy feel about it. According to the decor, wallpaper and TV’s I assume the film is set in the 80s, but the girl in the opening scene has a cell phone. Nothing about this film makes sense, not the plot nor the character’s behavior. Why did Hugh tie Jay to a wheelchair after giving ‘it’ to her? Why did he drug her in the first place, since by that time he’d already given it to her? This entire scene was just plain dumb. From there the film just gets more vague and silly. What is ‘it’ and why is it following people (at a snail’s pace, I might add). What is the purpose of all this?  To make the plot more laughable, ‘it’ is passed on by having sex. What?? A sexually transmitted demon??? Sounds like a Sunday school story!!

The hospital sex scene is unenthusiastic and totally inappropriate. When Jay finally tracks down Hugh, he couldn’t be more vague about what’s going on, and NO-ONE even bothers to ask what ‘it’ is and what it wants?????! This ‘it’ demon is also the most passive demon I’ve ever seen in a movie, not to mention slow and utterly stupid. There isn’t a single scare in the movie. I couldn’t wait for it to end. Firstly, because I really wanted it to end. Secondly, because I wanted to know how it would end, I suppose. The film then ends on just as lazy a note as it’s been for the past 90 minutes, no climax whatsoever. Critics praised the film. Uhm….why?? Am I missing something here?