Different and Unexpected

Rating: 7/10 (20 July 2015)

It Follows you is certainly refreshing in this day and age of horror films. Not once does it rely on a jump scare. It doesn't even rely on gore too much. It just is quite unsettling at times. I like the fact that there isn't much back story about this so called "it". I think that makes it even more creepier. You don't what it is, where it came from, how to stop it. It's just there...and you can't do anything about it. It's incredibly effective and I wish more writers/directors/producers were taking risks and coming up with more original content like this.
Now while I certainly like the idea behind this movie, I wish they maybe had a different cast or more interesting characters. I wasn't that compelled by the lead actress. She certainly was better than the majority of the cast, but there was a number of times where she just seemed flat and emotionless. And I'm talking about BEFORE the attack when her life was normal. The scenes with her hanging out with her friends are boring, her going out on a date was boring. There was nothing really interesting about the characters themselves. And that sucks because I felt like I could have given up on this movie so easily. Sometimes, the direction just seemed like it was trying to hard to be artsy fartsy. Like, oooh lets a close-up of her lining up blades of grass on her leg. Why? Why is that needed? And I didn't care for the score either. Trying to hard to be reminiscent of the 80s.
What truly makes this film work, and why I think its worth a watch is because "IT" is effective. I honestly had a knot in my stomach during the horror parts. Sometimes what is most scary is that feeling of helplessness. And that is what this movie accomplishes.