IT DOESN’T THINK. IT DOESN’T FEEL. IT DOESN’T GIVE UP.

After having sex with her new boyfriend (Jake Weary), Michigan college student Jay Height (Maika Monroe) finds out that he’s passed on a ”curse”; she will now be followed by a slow-moving supernatural entity that she must avoid or die.

A low-budget horror movie that takes expert advantage of its limited resources. The perfect movie to watch the day after a sexual encounter you’re already starting to regret, the creature that follows our lead turns into a clever symbol of our fear of STDs, HIV in particular.

The filmmakers create a sense of dread and get our adrenaline pumping in several exciting scenes; the electronic score is a nice nod to the 1980s. A very open ending, but still effective.

2015-U.S. 100 min. Color. Widescreen. Written and directed by David Robert Mitchell. Music: Disasterpeace. Cast: Maika Monroe (Jaime ”Jay” Height), Keir Gilchrist (Paul), Daniel Zovatto (Greg Hannigan), Olivia Luccardi, Jake Weary, Lili Sepe. 

Trivia: Co-produced by Mitchell.

Last word: “It just simply is and that’s sort of the way I see the movie is that it’s the characters literally find themselves within a nightmare and you can’t logically solve a nightmare. If it needs to be solved by some sort of puzzle or some sort of thing that you do or a sequence of events or any kind of silly scenario you can come up with, the moment you do that then it becomes about magic or something else as opposed to a nightmare.” (Mitchell, Collider)