I'm an easy grader who rarely trashes anything. But this is pure trash.

Rating: 2/10 (14 November 2012)

I may have seen just one too many horror films, or one to few.
OK, the old lady started off as being real creepy, a very good feature that could have been played as the ace in the hole. Instead? She spent the entire film vomiting gore out of her mouth into others' mouths. How lovely, thanks for that! Now I'm not a gore fan, not one bit. And even if I were - this was the toilet humor level of gore. Plain filth with no art what so ever.
OK, story is nice, in its own predictable non original juvenile way. There have been enough films that dealt with curses and evil spirits, this has to be the worst I've seen. Even the so-called "moral" of the story is self righteous and condescending... cheap. Very cheap. Not karma, but self indulgence.
The only times you might find yourself frightened is when the oldest cheap shot cheat in the book is played - something happens quickly and suddenly and loud audio forces you to twitch. Like a 13 year old bringing a wild card to a Texas Hold'em table.
Now, the grand finale - the """twist""". So obvious, so predictable, so insultingly blunt... next time try putting a little more work to the story writing, Raimi bros, instead of blowing through 30 million dollars on corny Michael Bay effects. This wasn't supposed to be an action film with explosions and fire, it was supposed to be horror, as in scary, as in good.
I apologize, this review didn't come out objective. That's only because I will never get 99 minutes back, and am both frustrated and disappointed. I wouldn't mind a low level twist, I'd even prefer no twist at all than such a lame one. Maybe a 12 year old watching the first Horror film in their lives could have somehow missed that... And the ending doesn't even follow up on the twist! I mean COME ON!
I'm going to be as objective as I can and rate this film 3. If anyone asks me - I'll recommend watching 99 minutes of static white noise on a dead channel before going through the non-existing effort of hitting the play button on this one.