Disappointing and a total waste of money.

Rating: 2/10 (5 April 2015)

I don't usually write reviews because usually I don't have that strong of feelings toward the film. I either liked it, loved it, or could find some redeeming qualities about it. That being said, this film did not deliver for me. I enjoy being scared by the things that go bump in the night in the safety of a theatre. Now, the start of this film was unnecessary and could be scrapped completely. The scene shows an unnamed girl running out of her house across the street and then driving away to a beach where she calls her parents and tells them she loves them. Then its day and she's been mutilated and is dead. I figured this scene would be explained later on it the film. (It wasn't.) Then the scene goes to the film's main character Jay. This is uneventful until she goes to the movies with her boyfriend Hugh. They play a game and he sees someone no one else does. This is the "it." After realizing Jay can't see the person, he rushes her out of the theatre claiming he feels sick. A few dates later they have sex. He then tells her he passed "it" to her and all she needed to do was pass it on so it didn't kill them. The movie was extremely disappointing with musical cues put in wrong places and no end to the jump scares. I've been scared more by cheesier and crappier films than this one. This one had no real plot. Where did the "thing" come from? Why is this happened? Why can't it be killed? Why couldn't Paul (I had to look that up because the characters weren't memorable.) see it after it scratched him? What was the point of showing that if nothing was going to happen? That could have been scrapped too, as it was even more unnecessary than the first scene. What bothers me most about this is that there was SO much hype for it. I went in a little nervous because it was supposed to be the "scariest thing since (place any horror film here because I've heard a myriad of different things.) and it turned out to be really bad. I went in expecting something great and came out really disappointed. I read the reviews and see a lot of people saying it was a "smart" film. But I didn't get any of it. Maybe I'm just a dumb movie goer who doesn't know anything. But if that's the case, then this movie is even worse than I'm saying it is. You cannot create a movie that no one will understand, first of all. And if it was supposed to be a horror movie, you have to have more than just jump scares and incorrectly placed music/vocal cues! This movie could have been fleshed out and told a lot better. It seemed to me that is was the start of a story. Like the writer went to someone and said, "I want to make a movie about a thing that follows people around and kills people if they don't have sex." And then literally did that without fleshing out real characters or story line/plot. In my opinion this movie was a total waste of money and really should have waited a little longer. If we thought that the horror genre was failing, this is only going to make it worse.