Not for everyone

Rating: 2/10 (21 February 2016)

This review might contain spoilers and might offend you.
I wouldn't say it is a bad movie, but it wasn't a horror movie. I probably had too high expectations for this, because it is praised as one of the best new horror movies. I don't agree with that, just because I never had the feeling of "horror" while watching it.
The plot wasn't very engaging for me, personally. SPOILERS: it's basically about a demon STD (probably? we never know what it even is?) final destination style. If it kills you, it goes after the person which was infected with it before you. It follows the kids (one girl, actually) for the rest of the movie. The plot twist? It is only able to walk. On foot. You can basically drive away from it and wait until it gets to you. On foot. This opens a question: what if you just fly overseas? But that's no possible solution to this problem. No. You better sleep around to pass it to someone else. The kids don't even ask themselves the question WHAT this thing even is. Maybe they could have found a solution to get rid of it somehow? But no, sleep with someone to get this unexplained thing off of you. What else can you do.
The characters were not relatable at all. The teenagers never really talk about anything substantial, so you don't even get to know them, besides seeing them as some kind of hip nerd kids living in the modern age with TVs from the 70s. They also have ebook readers in the shape of a seashell and old, rusty cars. Aesthetics.
Don't even get me started on the soundtrack. I know some people praise the OST for being "old school 80s horror". But I don't know how to take a horror movie seriously if there is bad synthesizer music in almost every shot, ruining any built up mood completely.
Sometimes the movie was very pretty to look at. It was, after all, all about aesthetics. And sometimes there was a really disturbing jumpscare which reminded you of the fact that it was, indeed, supposed to be a horror movie. But other than that, the movie was not enjoyable.
The critique comes from a person who loves synth pop, watches aesthetic shows like Hannibal, where nothing much happens for the sake of pretty shots, and is, herself, a geeky young adult, same as the characters in this movie. But, even though these aspects stand greatly on their own, they don't go together in this movie and just make it feel ridiculous.
I am sorry if this review offended your opinion overall or specifically on this movie. You can explain it to me, maybe I will understand the point of this movie better afterwards.