Oh, no, please not another disappointing horror movie

Rating: 3/10 (10 June 2015)

Well. Expectations were so high from me toward this movie, and I am genuinely surprised by the superpositive response from others, critics included. Let me be the troll then.
The concept is great, and the way the director painted up a picture of a loving family with lovable members who viewers will care for (at least until a certain point)definitely worked.
Jay is not the typical cliché-ish bombshell damsel in distress, instead she is the girl next door (TM). The sister and the friends surrounding them are also sympathetic characters.
The score in my honest opinion is an instant classic, as it casts a disturbing shadow onto the whole movie, including the supposedly heartwarming moments, which are not too many in this movie.Creepy 80's style.
Acting is also alright but nothing special, but one rarely expects academy award performances from horror movies anyways.
(Spoilers may happen from here!I did warn you!)
Where the movie stumbled for me then? Well, as haunting and clever as it starts, the more bored and dull it gets toward the end. I feel for Jay who got tricked and pulled into this sick and deadly "tag game" and in the beginnings I was actually scared and breathless whenever "It" showed up.
But then it starts fading away with every horroristic scene. Along with the carefully built-up "feel for the characters" feeling. These -at first I thought - smart and spirited teens don't make the smallest effort to find out what the hell is really happening, what is "It" aside from searching up the guy who was generous enough to pass the STD (sexually transmitted demon)to Jay. Somehow they are so cool- headed that the idea of beating up the bastard doesn't cross the mind of neither of them, instead they are having a nice chit-chat while sitting in the grass.
After that, they don't try to find an occultist, a crazy wannabe ghosthunter, an exorcist, nobody, they do not hit up google.The only thing they do is Jay sleeping around with all of the male members of the gang, even after the first try it becomes clear that it's not a long-term solution.
The creepy moments slowly starts to become less and less creepy, and the grand finale is as stupid as possible. I still have to think hard if I want to find out what they really wanted there with all those kitchen machines and other electronic devices around the pool and even then I have no idea.
Well. "Haunted" movies, as a genre have one thing in common. The hero/heroine tries his/her best to find out what is haunting them and how to get rid of it. Of course it sort of never works, just think of The Ring or that Sarah Michelle Gellar movie. But at least they are trying. Jay and her friends aren't. And it's disappointing and turns the otherwise almost good movie into a boring horroristic scene-chatting scene - mild sex scene - another horroristic but not that much this time scene - chatting scene- some more chatting scene- oh no, horroristic scene, this time longer - then mild sex scene then...you get the point.
At the end I only really felt for the pure prostitute. From the ending scene where "It" follows Jay and his not-in-the-friendzone anymore boyfriend (?)I guess she wasn't long lived after her encounter with this boyfriend mentioned above. (What was his name?!Oh well. )
Alright, that's it. I AM disappointed. A crappy and not creepy movie. Ba-dumb-tssh!