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IT FOLLOWS opens cold & wastes no time showing you the beauty it has in store for the viewers. The concept is simple enough & fresh although it does leave a few questions unanswered in the end allowing fans to discuss the ins & outs of how IT operates. I did truly enjoy this movie but to many situations happen off screen & questionable scenes that seemed to directly contradict the set up or the scene immediately before kept bringing my enjoyment to a halt.

The movie holds its own when it comes to cinematography in its amazing color palette & beautiful wide shots. The music is also an absolute stand out. Great old school slasher-esque with pounding bass to drive home the stalking dread. These were my two highest points from this film as a whole. Closely followed by the overall concept & delivery.

Maika Monroe's character Jay takes over the curse from Jeff Redman played by Jake Weary early on in the movie & we follow her & her closest friends as they try to simply survive IT. Most of the acting here is well delivered with one or two forgettable roles. Maika Monroe is not only the lead but is the stand out performance. Nobody was overwhelmingly bad in their performance.

The Curse can be anywhere & anytime. Watching in the background for the extras brings an easy 2nd viewing. It is consistently building suspense & dread without becoming annoyingly repetitive while bringing you into the groups paranoia filled experiences. When the characters attempt to outsmart IT this sometimes can lead to both great simplistic prevention to completely unexplained set ups with almost no pay off. IT can take MANY forms & on the fly can shift into any desired form to deal with the situation it is facing.

PROS: Music Background Suspense/Dread Color Palette Overall Concept

CONS: Off Screen Progression Forgettable roles Contradicting Scenes

Yikes. This is really bad.

CONS: Terrible dialog that is dubbed over the actors Massive plot holes throughout the movie Incredibly out of place music Subpar acting

PROS: Great trailers Creepy visuals

DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME! The trailers are far more entertaining. The only redeeming part of this movie are the creepy visuals that Juliet Mills manages with the assistance of the contacts & makeup. Nothing more.

I wouldn't even consider myself a fan of The Exorcist but this one for sure made every penny of its $15 million box office off the back of a far superior film.

A solid effort on everyone's part. Not the worst acting, not the worst writing. But there are some issues that kept me from fully enjoying this one. There seemed to be some dramatic character switches that made little to no sense & with those also came such an advancement in the story that I was left confused as to why we were there. Most of the kills are VERY BRUTAL & kept me interested but they themselves are few & far between.

Lead Jesse Williams has some high moments in his acting but I can't help but feel that either the cast or the script around his character let him down. With that said I was highly excited to not only see that Jay Baruchel was in the film but also wrote this movie, sadly his magical comedic touch was nowhere to be found.

I thought this would be so much better, it just fell short in to many areas for me to give this a high review.