Good But Could Have Been Better

Rating: 6/10 (27 March 2015)

I saw "It Follows", starring Maika Monroe-Labor Day, The Bling Ring; Keir Gilchrist-United States of Tara_tv, The Rocker; Daniel Zovatto- Laggies, Revenge_tv and Olivia Luccardi-Orange is the New Black_tv, Girls_tv.
This is a horror movie that could have been a lot better if they would have explained a few things more. Parts of it reminded me of the original Halloween, Final Destination and Invasion of the Body Snatchers mashed together. Maika plays a teenager that likes a certain new boy. He takes her to a secluded area and they do what teenagers in these types of movies do, have sex, consensually of course. He then drugs her and ties her to a chair-not consensually and not what most teenagers do in these types of movies-and when she wakes up, he tells her that he has passed 'it' to her-'it' being some sort of sexual curse that can be given to another person by having sex with them. According to the curse, there is a zombie-like creature that walks-never runs-after the cursed person. It can take different forms-men, women, old, young-and it is relentless in it's walking. If it catches the person, it kills them and then it backtracks down the list of sexually active teens, to the originator. Olivia plays one of Maika's girl friends and Keir and Daniel are male friends that volunteer to take the curse from Maika by sacrificing themselves and having sex with her. There is nudity- sometimes, the walker is a nude man or woman-and during the end credits it said that it was filmed in Detroit, Michigan. It's not a bad movie, I just think it would have been better if they would have given more background information about the curse, the walker and the bodies it used. It's rated "R" for violence, language and sexual content-including nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 40 minutes. I don't know if I would buy it on DVD but it would be a good rental.