Gripping and fast-paced - An excellent movie!

Rating: 8/10 (25 April 2010)

Alison Lohman plays Christine Brown, a loan officer who is eager to be promoted to the position of assistant manager at her bank. To impress her boss, she refuses to grant an old gypsy woman an extension on her loan - therefore evicting the woman from her home. The woman, named Mrs. Ganush, avenges herself by cursing Christine. Christine now has three days to appease the dark spirit Mrs. Ganush unleashed or she will forever burn in hell. In doing this, she receives help from a fortune teller (played by Dileep Rao) and from her somewhat skeptical boyfriend (actor: Justin Long)...
All in all, the movie certainly lives up to its expectations: The movie contains many frightening scenes (not necessarily bloody, however) skillfully placed at the right moments in the storyline. The movie never drags a plot element out for too long so that the viewer gets bored.
Furthermore, the two main actresses (Alison Lohman and Lorna Raver as the gypsy woman) deliver great performances. The same also goes for Dileep Rao.
Rating: 8/10 stars