Good ending, but not much else.

Rating: 5/10 (25 November 2009)

My 5 is a generous 5. This movie had some base ideas and concepts that could have made a very good film. But they came out as poorly executed.
They movies plot is decent enough, except for the lack of explanation for the second envelope that just happened to have a circular object in it (you can see its indentation in one of the shots). And even despite this i enjoyed the ending. It was the middle that killed it for me.
I know Raimi's style, it's just that it didn't work out in this movie. The gross out scenes took away from the movie and left me thinking "this is not scary it's just gross". Most of the tricks he pulls in this movie have been done as well. And tied to that, almost every one of the scares follows this pattern; Quiet, Hallucinate, Screech, Demon shadow.
If you enjoy scary movies for the scares, this movie is not for you. If you take your horror with a side of gross out, near comedy gimmicks, then go for it.