Not the work of genius I had hoped for.

Rating: 7/10 (4 April 2015)

I was kind of underwhelmed. The cinematography is at times really cool and the music is often great. Maika Monroe's performance was a pleasant surprise as well. In the first act or so in this film, as in most or all of "The Guest," I wasn't too moved by her performance, which felt overly restrained and inexpressive. But as time went on in "It Follows," there's actually a startling depth and reality to her reactions to the strange stuff going on. The mood and atmosphere is very well done.
On the other hand, there's something of an emptiness to the movie that I don't quite know how to verbalize. The relationships feel flat and mostly uninspiring, and the core tension of the film rests on whether or not the "villain" is truly scary, which to me it only occasionally was. The film drags 15 minutes or so too long, and the pace doesn't ever recover the energy of some of the better sequences. The ending made a certain sense in the context of the movie, but was unsatisfying.