Cool 1980s vibe, but that's about it to me

Rating: 4/10 (10 May 2020)

"It Follows" was coming off of streaming so I thought I should give it a go. After reading a lot of reviews, I really wanted to like this horror flick; unfortunately, that's not how it turned out. The first 20 or so minutes were pretty good, but then it just got slow and dumb. I guess, when you really think about it, most horror movies don't really make much sense, it's just particularly obvious in this case. I agree with other viewers who thought it had a kind of cool '80s vibe, but that's about the best I can say about it. In the end, there was no way that I was going to sit through the whole thing, so I fast-forwarded here and there to see if it got any better, but it didn't. I'm not a big horror fan anyhow, and I guess that this is comparatively original plot to most, but it just gets slower and dumber as it goes along, with a few interesting subtexts.