not bad, not great

Rating: 5/10 (6 January 2019)

So, this was on Film4 the other day so I decided to give it a watch and as you can tell by the title. It's not bad, but it also isn't great. And here's why:
So, quick rundown, a young woman develops a curse after sleeping with her date and in order to get rid of it she has to sleep with someone else. If the "demon" kills that person it then goes back to whoever is previous again.
I will start with what personally annoyed me. We have this curse that the young woman got quite early on in the film. However, I would have liked some sort of explanation as to why this curse exists. Also, Jay (young woman) could have simply slept with some random lad in a bar and so on, but she fannies about for a while, because finally sleeping with another lad. At the end she ends up sleeping with one of her best friends who then hires a prostitute (which is what i suggested about 15 minutes into the film). But, clearly the prostitute dies, because the "demon" is following them again. That ending seems a little pointless, because I have watched 100 minutes of a film to find out, they are still cursed....
There are definitely positives to take from this film, the acting I thought, especially for a low budget horror, was pretty decent. The cinematography was also very good, some nice shots were used throughout and the music was different, but I believe worked well with the overall tone of this horror.
So, why do people watch horror films? To get scared. Watching this, there was definitely an element of constant horror as you never know whether this "demon" will appear as it would follow the character at random times. There was also some jump scares thrown into the mix so yeah I would say this definitely has that horror element. The idea of being constantly followed and watched is a current zeitgeist that bothers a lot of people and they have incorporated that well.
I have given this a 5/10, because overall I believe it's simply just an average film. You won't be disappointed by it, nor will you be impressed.