Great concept, great execution, but one major problem.

Rating: 1/10 (1 January 2017)

The reason I gave the movie such a bad review is because it had so much potential and, for the most part, was actually a fantastic horror film. For about the first half of the movie, I was genuinely creeped out. There were a lot of unnecessary shots of naked women and people having sex, but I was able to ignore those parts, so they only ruined the atmosphere a bit. It was an annoying, but unfortunately common enough occurrence in horror films for me to be used to it. However, at the climax of the film, the 'It' that has been following Jay the whole time catches up with Greg (who she, of course, had on-screen sex with). The fact that the film shows us what happens when it catches up to you removes a lot of the suspense and mystery of the concept- it makes the monster a lot less scary, because anything it does is infinitely less scary than anything the audience's imagination comes up with. But what's even worse than ruining the first rule of horror movies is the actual action it takes- apparently, this monster kills you by having sex with you. I'm not sure what I expected, but the moment the camera shows us Greg's mom and him together, the movie immediately lost any feeling of terror it had just because of the sheer ridiculousness of it. What had been a really cool, creepy, and unique concept, and would have made a great movie with a lot of really cool details in the setting and through recurring imagery, was ultimately ruined by the director's libido and inability to show women on screen without them having sex or being viewed sexually.