It Disappoints

Rating: 4/10 (19 March 2018)

After hearing reviews raving about this as an exciting new horror which was properly scary I watched with anticipation of a change from all the many, many modern horrors with their lame ideas, lack of invention and lack of proper scares. Sadly all I found was that this is basically exactly like all the other weak modern efforts at horror. I cannot understand what reviewers had seen in it.
Right from the start the film shows itself to be the typical cliched silly teen horror and as it goes along it just gets sillier. There is a grain of a good idea in it somewhere but it just goes through the well treaded path of being a poor imitation of horrors from the 70s and early 80s. There is nothing clever or inspired in this film at all. It is reasonably well made technically but really is laughable as a horror. My wife and I both just laughed out loud all the way through it because it was so silly and shook our heads at how it did all the usual cliched things . It was not remotely scary even once.
In addition to various story faults it also had no sense of the period it was set in. Many things suggested it was set in the 70s or early 80s while other things betrayed that it was modern day. I could not tell what era it was intending to be portraying.
The totally implausible turns of events and unbelievable choices made by characters in order to allow the rather childish plot to carry on down its predictable path was extremely disappointing. The best I can say about it was that it was not really badly acted like a lot of modern horrors, it was not really badly filmed as so many films are and it was kind of brainless fun. As an entertainment to pass the time with acceptable technical film-making I suppose it may be worthy of a teen sleepover watch with your friends for a laugh but nothing more sadly.
Not the worst by any means as there are even more stupid horrors which are really poorly made and/or have inappropriate levels of torture porn or soft porn elements which I find really unpalatable but It Follows is only worth 3.5/10 for me.