Review of It Follows (2015) by Shahdan — 22 Sep 2015

Never have I come across a flimsy and terribly written movie so obscenely glorified as this one. The plot of a relentless manifestation of a curse (in this case a paranormal, sexually transmitted disease - I really kid you not) has been done with proper pacing and a decent framework in many movies such as Ju-on and Ring.

This one? Hey, it tries to be very very different. Nothing is working? Fear not. Throw in gratuitous amount of sex and slime (quite literally), lumbering naked prostitutes with thighs streaming with fresh urine and a generous display of nudity, more nudity ... and then some more doses of it, all in the name of a slow-paced remains of a sad train-wreck that made no sense when it started and ended on an even more convoluted note.

I would love to know the sensibilities of critics that consider this a terrifying movie, as the only thing I was terrified of was to not shame myself in front of my friends by controlling my violently churning stomach at the death scene of the protagonist's friend, and incidentally, one-time playmate. But alas, it is so different and so cool that it obviously deserves the skyrocketing score, nevermind the lack of pacing, direction or the actual narrative. Who cares? It's different, folks. It's different!

All in all, It Follows follows a lot of banal plot devices, it just fails to follow anything meaningful.