over-hyped

Rating: 5/10 (2 April 2015)

Hopefully, no spoilers.
After reading and hearing of national and local hype, I saw It Follows March 31's afternoon. Glad it was at matinée price. About 20 minutes in, I contemplated asking for a refund but kept thinking "it'll get better." Never got better. Too late for asking for a refund.
Scares without gore. Moody. A slow burn. Carpenter-esque. An intellectual horror movie. The bad guy could show up at anytime and the characters and viewers would never know we were with the bad guy. Heavy on 70s and 80s synthesized music. That was the hype.
Discounting the scares, more like that was the truth rather than the hype. Generally speaking and because I enjoy horror/thriller, I want to be scared w/o or w/gore. Does not matter. I saw the scares w/o gore but the scenes were not scary.
The first Paranormal Activity was scary w/o gore.