It Follows
The best horror films take some deep-seated human anxiety and give it supernatural form; and what causes more anxiety, esp. for young adults, than sex? IT FOLLOWS gets that much right, making its unsettlingly simple menace essentially a living STD and thus highlighting the link between sex and one’s survival chances even more than is usually the case for teens in horror films. The movie’s successful premise ends up undermined by unremarkable acting, some lagging pacing, an amateurish score, and a failed ending…but none of it is enough to negate some chilling scenes in this small, independent find. –YSM