Messy mystery only makes half-sense
As is so often the way with young filmmakers who break out with their first widely seen effort, It Follows writer and director David Robert Mitchell takes a big swing with his follow-up; a ramshackle LA-set stoner detective story that plays out like a sci-fi Raymond Chandler or a hipster Hitchcock. Blurring the distinctions between genres with commendable impudence, Mitchell further muddies his already sodden pastiche with flashes of unsettling surrealism and unconventional ...