Bad mix of comedy and cheap "horror"

Rating: 3/10 (30 December 2009)

While watching this drivel I was confused as to whether the intention was for it to be a horror or a comedy. (It did in fact remind me of Evil Dead even before I found out it had the same writers.) Trying to mix horror with comedy is like mixing oil and water. They don't mix well and are not complementary.
This is one of those annoying "horrors" that employs cheap scare tactics by forcing you to turn the volume up loud so as to hear the dialog, and then have something jump at you at full scramble-for-the-remote volume. This may have been entertaining when I was 12, but now only gets on my nerves.
The séance scene was so laughable that again I was confused as to whether the main intention was to invoke fear or laughs. I believe it may have been the latter. Unfortunately I experienced neither.
This movie could only be enjoyed by teenagers that may be more forgiving of the films shortcomings and its reliance on special effects for cheap entertainment. Personally I found it difficult to sit through.