There are times you start to wish you have purchased the extra large popcorn and coke. And also a plot riff which you just know was contributed by some of the frat boys who crowd-sourced the film - "you can get rid of the curse if you just sleep with someone, fast!" The bad news? It is not in the same class as Living Dead or Ginger. Writer/Director Mitchell has a heck of a career ahead of him. So what's the bottom line? Well done for what you get. A really clever idea, sort of a take off on the Ring which itself was a riff off a Japanese horror classic. What we have here is another attempt to strike film gold by going for a high I/B ratio. Little is known about the creature or where it came from, but it is the result of a curse that was. It is a supernatural being that incessantly pursues its victims at a walking pace. Think Ginger Snaps, which started as an obscure Canadian horror flick but found an audience because of the great writing and the charisma of its stars. The Entity, or It, is the name given to the otherwise unnamed main antagonist in the 2014 horror film, It Follows. And the local butcher donated the entrails. Shot on location with unknowns and local residents as extras. Think of the first Night of the Living Dead. The premise of Hello Mary Lou starts in 1957 and follows the story of. The goal of every journeyman film-maker from the beginning of the medium to the present, is to produce something that has the most impact per dollar spent. This surely would warrant the film to receive a sequel or two, especially in the slasher-saturated decade of the 1980s. That is the only way to review this film.
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