IT FOLLOWS does a fair job of revealing the horrors of Michigan . . .

Rating: 7/10 (25 March 2015)

. . . where it was filmed; horrors of which I experienced many first-hand during my recent visit with relatives there, which included them "treating" me to a showing of this flick in the Detroit Zoo suburb of Royal Oak. Several montage scenes of this movie's characters driving around at random indicates that you could transplant the Bates Motel, HELL HOUSE, THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, and every other Hollywood horror flick setting into the Wolverine State, and the residents there would see it as an upgrade. The high school kids pictured in IT FOLLOWS are so backwards they still have to use land lines! They spend about half their time at beaches, but they never seem to swim, since it's almost always too cold to go in. Because long-time Michigan resident Thomas Edison invented horror movies with his film ELECTROCUTING AN ELEPHANT (for real), and his victim Topsy has a long memory, it makes Karmic sense that Michigan would be Ground Zero for a new STD that transmits ghost zombies to the teens who sleep with everyone in sight, such as the kids in IT FOLLOWS. But this flick pales in comparison to the REAL LIFE horrors of Michigan, such as the story in the news during my visit of the single lady who moved to the Detroit area from the East Coast, died of unknown causes in her Jeep in her garage, and got mummified before she was discovered by the "authorities" FIVE YEARS LATER!