Disappointing but not a bad film

Rating: 5/10 (1 April 2015)

I'll start with the good. This movie was filmed well and paid tribute to the pace and camera techniques of horror films from the late seventies early eighties and even the score had a great eighties horror movie vibe to it. The characters were fairly interesting and the story started out intriguing. I could see the similarities to the infamous IT even obviously in the title just adding the word 'follows'.
I could count on one hand the scenes that truly had shock value and you have to appreciate those moments because you truly don't know exactly what's going to happen so the suspense is there. The problem I had with this film was I really didn't think the story was strong enough. There really is no decent explanation of what "it" actually is even though the boy who gives "it" to her (strangely enough through sex) goes into it a bit at the beginning. It being some sort of creature that pretty much just appears as people. Sounds interesting but at times it was like okay is that a person walking by or is that "it".
I just felt a little disappointed that "it" wasn't something more interesting and that "it" often took too long to appear not to mention how it's passed and how to get rid of it at times was clear and then confusing and why would something evil be passed through sex. Felt like this movie was written by a Mormon or something trying to make you fear pre-marital sex or something. Anyway "it" without a doubt unfortunately was not much more than a really twisted STD of some sort.
The direction was awesome and the score too and the acting was just fine but the puzzle piece missing was more intrigue, more story and a bit more horror. It was just lacking but not a bad film. Check it out but wait for Red box or Netflix.