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Plodding supernatural thriller about a young woman (Maika Monroe) whose new boyfriend gives her the worst STD ever: a strange creature only she can see that follows her wherever she goes and which, if it catches her, will kill her. Comes with the usual metaphorical baggage of any film that equates sex and death without (also typical) ever saying anything new about it. Seems intended to be hypnotic -- with its slow pacing and long silences, as well as its emphasis on creeps rather than scares -- and your enjoyment of it will largely depend on whether it works for you on that level or becomes merely dull. Includes a 21-year-old who wishes he were a "child" again, a couple of contemporaries whose big childhood memory is finding porno magazines in an alley (no doubt a detail from the much older writer-director's life), and a noticeable dearth of modern technology (cell phones, computers). Wildly popular, however, with both critics and audiences, suggesting how bad movies have become in the aftermath of Blair Witch and do-it-yourself filmmaking.
Plodding supernatural thriller about a young woman (Maika Monroe) whose new boyfriend gives her the worst STD ever: a strange creature only she can see that follows her wherever she goes and which, if it catches her, will kill her. Comes with the usual metaphorical baggage of any film that equates sex and death without (also typical) ever saying anything new about it. Seems intended to be hypnotic -- with its slow pacing and long silences, as well as its emphasis on creeps rather than scares -- and your enjoyment of it will largely depend on whether it works for you on that level or becomes merely dull. Includes a 21-year-old who wishes he were a "child" again, a couple of contemporaries whose big childhood memory is finding porno magazines in an alley (no doubt a detail from the much older writer-director's life), and a noticeable dearth of modern technology (cell phones, computers). Wildly popular, however, with both critics and audiences, suggesting how bad movies have become in the aftermath of Blair Witch and do-it-yourself filmmaking.
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