Slow, boring, with a stupid premise

Rating: 2/10 (5 June 2015)

I guess you have to be american and under 16 to feel invested in this movie.
Being european, i don't have the point of view americans have on underage sex.
Unmarried sex before marriage being a big no-no is not a thing that really exists in europe.
However I can get the metaphore for STD's. My point is, europeans don't really have this "taboo" thing going on with sex...for us there's just no big deal around sex.
That pretty much invalidates the stakes in this film. Furthermore when you think about it the premises can't really work, and the film takes a lot of liberties with its own rules (eg sometimes the "thing" can interract with objects, sometimes it can't...most of the time appart form its target no one can see signs of its presence...but sometimes they can)
The characters lack personnality, are flat and really unappealing. Cardboard cutout american teens we've all seen a million times before with no real characteristics or character traits that sets them appart or makes them sympathetic.
The threat is...well, not very threatning throughout the movie. Any threat that can be countered by just running is pretty much a non-threat.
The movie's supposed to be tense throughout but again, if the threat isn't really threatning...the tension is just not there (furthermore, if you don't really care what happens to the protagonists because you can't identify with them...that ruins the tension even more). A retiree wearing a flower dress, wether their eyesockets are dark or not, slowly walking towards you, is not something you run away from.
Obviously I didn't really "get" this movie, to me the message "no underage sex kids, it's bad" just doesn't work when you've been done with puberty for a while. If you already had sexual intercourse with more than one member of the opposite sex : this film just doesn't speak to you.
So yeah I'll go ahead and say it : unless you're a teenage WASP american who never had sex before, this movie has nothing going for it.
Much too specific of a target audience to be appealing to a global audience.
This is just an over-rated teen slasher flick. You have to actually be a teenager to find it appealing...if you're over twenty it just feels really immature and prudish, but most of all really, really boring. The pace is FAR too slow and the threat just doesn't exist. So you're just left watching moronic and unapealing teen clichés running around for the whole movie, which isn't really interresting to watch.
Yet another mediocre run of the mill movie over rated just because it's premise dares to somewhat step out of the ordinary redundance we're used to seeing in horror movies. And once again, if the premise only works for a small portion of the population...well you're just left with your average "teen has sex and gets chased throughout the movie by a paranormal thing that wants to punish them for it". Eg : your typical boring and unoriginal b movie teen slasher trope.