It follows what?

Rating: 4/10 (15 May 2015)

I saw this movie based on a movie review in a national magazine to which I subscribe The magazine gave it a 4 out of 4. Based on this review, I saw the movie. I have no idea what the reviewer was thinking of. On this rating scale I'd give it a 1.5. At very best a 2. The music score was pretty good.
This movie could have been called Young Adult Angst in Spades. There are few adults in the movie and those that do occasionally show up have minute parts that last a few moments. They could easily have been left out entirely. The movie plays on the worst fears of a young adult. To be followed by some creepy guy or woman who shows up unexpectedly when you were just feeling safe and secure. The only new spin the movie gives it is all this is a curse brought on by having sex with someone who already has the curse.
Jay (Maika Monroe) has a date with a guy (Jake Weary) to see a movie. Shown in a movie theater that looked like one straight out of the 1940s BTW (nothing wrong with that-surprised it's still around). The guy has the curse and he takes Jay to a strange deserted parking structure and they make love. Not an exactly romantic place to make love in but fits in with the creepy theme. After the love making they see a creepy creature creeping towards them. Slowly. And I mean slowly.
So, Jay now catches sight of creepy creatures creeping slowly towards her all over the place. This really freaks her out. Kelly (Lili Sepe), Jay's sister, and Paul (Keir Gilchrist), Kelly's boyfriend, try to help Jay rid herself of the creepy creatures. As an aside, at the beginning of the movie it's suggested that if you get tired of creepy creatures creeping slowly towards you and you just give up, they eventually catch up with you and rip your limbs off. But Jay doesn't know this.
Anyway, Kelly is OK with Paul sleeping with Jay so the curse will be passed on to him (Paul's been lusting after Jay for a long time anyway so this works for him). They make love and then wait in dire expectation. But nothing happens. True love triumphs over the curse of the creepy creatures creeping slowly?
It's hard to make a really good spook movie. I'll concede that. Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece in this genre, The Shining, raised the bar awfully high. If you're going to make one, probably best to create a good bit of psychological scaffolding to support the spook part, as the recent The Babadook did.
A 4 out of 10. As I said, the music score was pretty good. And that old theater (guess it still exists in Detroit). Wow! I liked that.