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It Follows’ Review: Unsafe Sex, David Robert Mitchell’s “It Follows” comes equipped with as good a title as a film could ask for. What follows from those two charged words is a sporadically scary story about sexually transmitted horror, and a vivid example of musically transmitted anxiety. (The remarkably effective sound track is credited to Disasterpeace.)

In the opening shot, meant to evoke generic horror, a scantily-clad young woman in high heels comes running out of a nice suburban house. What’s wrong? Who is she running from? In due time not all that much is illuminated. Most notably, though, the young woman, Jay (Maika Monroe) picks the wrong guy to have sex with.

After the encounter, she is followed by an evil, shape-shifting something or other, and the only advice she gets from her consort is to have sex with someone else so she can pass the ghastliness on. Mr. Mitchell, who made his theatrical debut with “The Myth of the American Sleepover,” doesn’t evolve a discernible attitude toward the ethical aspects of his plot, and “It Follows” finally loses track of itself in a silly climax. All the same, it’s one more stylish reminder of how readily we the people can be creeped out.