Almost Scary

Rating: 5/10 (27 April 2016)

Certain horror movies (mainly those rated PG-13) contain a formula of mirror-misdirection, cat-jumps and a story that has no logical beginning or logical ending. This was one of those (even with the R rating).
I was originally attracted to this because of the high Metascore, but maybe it was rated by critics under the age of 30 or who are parents of small children.
There were parts of this (especially at the beginning), where the movie showed a tremendous amount of promise. I was still expecting a good explanation for the situation to have come about, but that satisfaction never arrived.
I was expecting the characters to "get wise" at some point, but that never happened. Maybe it was sleep deprivation.
If the characters had figured out a "speed-of-travel" of the entity and then had calculated how far the new victim should go to get x-amount of sleep, it would have taken a more logical turn. Instead, it just had them run random distances at random times. The formula was broken when certain aspects of the entity could be seen by different people, but they couldn't really help. They were just there to show different forms of fright.
It also seems that people who do a good amount of "hooking-up" should have been in the hierarchy all around town to see the thing moving. What would happen if two people hooked-up twice? What about an orgy? What about a new level of indirection where a female thinks it's after her, but it passes her and gets the male next to her because of a secret hook-up with her previous male hook-up? Maybe the sequel will give a better explanation.