This is Horror that Doesn't Scream in Your Face But Makes You Scream in Your Head For Days

Rating: 8/10 (12 July 2015)

Any horror fans out there? This one comes highly recommended. It borrows heavily from the masters of the genre but yet it manages to do it intelligently. Made for only 2mil but it looks like it was made for 5 times that amount. Good horror is like a needle in a haystack. This is good horror.
The premise sounds dumb - a terrible curse is transmitted through sex. The supernatural entity will then come for the unfortunate person in any human-like form to kill him/her. You can't stop the curse, you can only propagate the curse by having sex with another person, but if this new person dies the supernatural force will then come for you and work up the food chain. Dumb right? But the execution is pure masterclass.
If you didn't already catch the allegory, let me tell you that the writer-director is "metaphorizing" STD. This one is going to make you think twice about having casual sex. The subtext doesn't become full-on distracting winks at you but does enough to get under your skin.
The characters are not over-written and easily relatable. The atmosphere is nail-biting and the unnamed dread is killer. The tension builds and builds to a point that it becomes a visceral force. The music soundtrack hearkens back to the electronic scores of John Carpenter and it really creeps me out. This is lo-fi horror but it is buoyed by the Mother of hi-fi power, with just a teaspoon of blood. It is horror that doesn't scream in your face but makes you scream inside your head for days.
PS - I saw this on blu-ray in the comfort of my home. Nothing beats watching horror movies at home. When I soil and pee in my pants, nothing beats the convenience.