Hmm..I know I’m not always in lockstep with the critics, but in this case, I’m not even in the same parade, I guess. I had heard so much hype about It Follows that I was expecting to be blown away by a little indie horror film, like I was with Carpenter’s Halloween (which everyone seems hell bent on comparing this with; perhaps because of the crappy score?), or with Attack the Block a couple of years back. But frankly, I struggled to get through it. The performances weren’t bad, and I think that helped. I know it was trying to recapture a bygone era of horror film, but people like Ti West did it better with his The House of the Devil. (He also does one of the best takes on the found footage/documentary sub-genre with The Sacrament.)

Ultimately, it felt like too much of a mish-mash to me. And it didn’t do the one thing that a horror film HAS to do: it didn’t scare me. Not even a bit. I kept waiting for it to, but it all seemed a little silly. I can forgive a lot of bad filmmaking if you still manage to make me crap my pants while watching. This didn’t.

Critics loved it, whatever the reason; it has almost a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes. So you might not want to listen to me on this one. Maybe I was blinded by the hype. IMDB has it at 7.5. I’d put it more in the 5.5 range. (running time 1:40)