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Writer/director David Robert Mitchell serves up a relatively fresh, original low-budget indie horror film that will tickle many horror fans’ nostalgia bones. The film is basically about a killer STD… sorta. If you have sex with the wrong person, you catch the fancy of some mysterious, invisible evil presence that will slowly stalk you and kill you. That is, unless you have sex with someone else and pass the curse onto them. But if you pass the curse on, and that person dies, then the evil entity comes back after you. It’s a promising premise, and Mitchell is certainly a director with a strong sense of style and purposeful execution. I very much enjoyed the cinematography by Mike Gioulakis and the gloriously synthesized score by Disasterpeace. But I found the characters too quirky to be engaging, the pacing becomes pretty cloying, and the third act becomes disappointing when the film’s ambiguous evil entity has to become tangible enough to kill. Still an interesting film, though.