It Follows Through

Rating: 7/10 (20 April 2015)

Where can I start with this? Where is the jump-off point as not to devolve into nitpicking and a clever play on words with the title to conclude? How can I not over-analyze this one? It Follows is thoroughly disturbing and fairly well-done, but has some flaws on the more technical side of things.
I was excited to see this movie because the lone TV-spot I saw gave so little information, while hinting at insane scares. The description I found online just said that "after a strange sexual encounter, a girl feels she's being stalked." Is there really more to know before going in? No, and I recommend knowing nothing more. The trailers at the start of the movie had Insidious 3 and the Poltergeist remake and something else about a family in a house and things happen to the kid. I can't help but be bored by a trailer that lets you know all the scares in the movie will rely upon a demon hand's ability to come out of any object. Or an otherwise inanimate object moving at someone. Those movies tell us exactly what's happening. It's not scary. It Follows tells us little enough to understand what's going on, but still be creeped the hell out.
There's an 80's synth in the soundtrack. The era of the film is indeterminable. This movie is stylized, as more movies should be. For all the style and scare, there are some technical issues. I noticed that fades were excessively used in the editing. Sometimes even with transitional shots that weren't related to each other. The soundtrack had some awkward, sudden starts and stops, too. This is really nitpicky of me and most people won't mind, but you can't deny that it is distracting.
I don't scare easily with movies. My third parent was the television. I'm desensitized enough to be bored by horror. This movie didn't make me defecate or anything, but it was unsettling enough to fight off the disappointment I often expect with a movie that advertises itself as horror. It then went even further with me by having some really horrific visuals in a couple scenes.
Despite technical problems, It Follows is a cleverly done horror movie. If I can't see a 10/10 Oscar winner, I want to see stuff like this. They moved right along once "It" appears and didn't let up. 7.5/10 to this movie.