A true case of hype over execution; An A for effort but a lot of eye-rolling 'really' moments

Rating: 7/10 (15 March 2015)

IT FOLLOWS (2015) **1/2 Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Lili Sepe, Olivia Luccardi, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary. Supernatural indie chiller about a teenager (Monroe, a hybrid of Reese Witherspoon and Brittany Murphy) who finds herself in one helluva predicament: after having sex with a would-be beau she is informed he's passed on a deadly force (not unlike an STD) that will relentlessly pursue her until she is dead (!) While filmmaker David Robert Mitchell has cobbled together a fairly decent premise with echoes of Romero dread, Craven fear, Carpenter style and Cronenberg body horror he still has a half-baked horror flick that sadly remains inert in its final act in spite of an intriguing premise (which does not a movie break). An A for effort but a lot of eye-rolling 'really' moments (um, WTF is her mother who disappears after the aftermath of her encounter?!) A true case of hype over execution.