TNN, Apr 9, 2015, 04.57PM IST
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Cast: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Olivia Luccardi, Loren Bass, Lily Sepe, Jake Weary, Daniel Zovatto
Direction: David Robert Mitchell
Genre: Horror
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes
Story:
Jay (Maika) has sex with her boyfriend Hugh (Weary) in his car one
night and a short while later, in a drastic shift of mood, Hugh tells
Jay that he has now 'passed on' an entity to her. 'It' will follow her
at walking pace and when it catches up, will slaughter Jay - unless she
in turn has sex with someone else and passes on the cursed entity, just
like he did.
Review: There's something
unsettling about this film from the opening scene itself. The premise,
as described above, reads plainly enough on paper. Jay's sister Kelly
(Sepe) and friends Paul (Gilchrist), Yara (Luccardi) and Greg (Zovatto)
empathize and try to help her.
The entity follows Jay with a chilling relentlessness - emerging from a
crowd as an old lady, from a forest at night as a naked woman or in a
tiny bedroom as an eight foot tall man with eyes gouged out. No one else
can see 'it'.
Mitchell's direction creates a sense of
unknowing; that something is happening off-camera and we can only guess.
In one scene, the camera pans through 720 degrees, where we at one
point see 'it' approaching a building Jay is in. When the camera returns
to that spot, it's nowhere to be seen. Stuff like this plays on your
mind later on. Did it enter that building?
The entity itself
inspires dread. Not only can it assume the form of any person - a parent
included - but you wonder what the hell it really is? Scarier still is
its Terminator-like persistence. Jay realizes that even if she takes
time off to rest or sleep, it only gives the entity more time to reach
her. Jay might 'transfer' it to someone else like a demonic STD, but
when those people are killed by the entity, it will come back to her
again - a claustrophobic loop of a living nightmare.
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Mitchell's
deliberately disjointed narrative and ambiguous timelines add to the
surrealism. There's a chance you might, at night, catch yourself looking
over your shoulder more than once after watching this.
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