STD follows

Rating: 1/10 (6 May 2015)

I had read that this film was one of the most scary films in recent years and after spending the entire duration of the movie waiting to be scared, I am still waiting. I am not in the least a little bit "creeped out." Very disappointing for an avid fan of horror genre.
After the first 10 minutes, it occurred to me and others who were watching the movie with me that it is a film about sexually transmitted diseases. I'm sure we are not the only ones. It is not about a specific evil entity in any traditional sense. It's a cautionary PSA: one should be careful with whom one casually choose to have sex; terrible consequences could "follow" otherwise. That is all good except I was expecting to see a scary movie.
Nothing was explained in the film. No origin story of the evil in question. No explanation of what the kids did what they did to try to get rid of it. It could be intentional to illustrate that young adults have no clue to deal with disasters that they bring upon themselves. However, they also did not receive or ask for help from outside of their circle. The whole situation is unsatisfying and unrealistic.
The soundtrack is jarring to me. I understand that it is dated because the setting of the movie is dated. But it did not add anything for me except annoyance.
As far as the world in the film being dated, I understand the reason for it. There is no plasma TV and the kids only watches really old movies. There was no computer, no World Wide Web, and therefore no information on their fingertips. The teenagers are cut off from help in all directions. They can't search online for the reason(s) that they were haunted. They can't find out how to get rid of it. They don't even ask for help from outside which kind of boggles the mind. I think the effort to create the situation in which these teens are isolated does not make too much sense. Even in the late 70s or early 80s, there are resources they can rely on apart from social medias. Try the libraries or archives.
There are some classic movie and literary references in the film which tells me that someone is trying to give this project an intellectual angle but the effort was shallow and clumsily done.
All in all, not that great.