Hilarious slapstick comedy!!!

Rating: 1/10 (3 November 2009)

A good horror movie must give the viewers the creeps, but if the viewers can't stop laughing then there's something wrong! I'm completely shocked when i see such high ratings on a huge flop in terms of quality, plot, direction, acting, like this one. I mean just 1 point above "the shining" on IMDb? But i suppose that most of this movies voters haven't even heard about Kubrick's masterpiece. These high ratings and the "scream" award it won made me watch this movie and after all i don't regret it because it took me only a few minutes to realize that this movie must be watched as if it is a hilarious comedy. The "Lamia plot" was totally unconvincing, the caricature of a gypsy woman with all her phony grimaces, phony accent and phony teeth got me laughing to tears, the scene of the fight in Alysson Lohman's car was absolutely ridiculous, Lohman's breakdown in her job spitting blood all over her boss was beyond any serious critic, the scene of her visit to Justin Long's parents was surrealistically burlesque, and the comic climax was beyond any doubt her "slimy" meeting with Ms Ganosh body in both her house and her grave, let alone the speaking goat and the weird Russian Kalinka- style dance. I can't say which of the two Alysson Lohman or Justin Long is more bored in this film. It makes me sad that modern horror movies are so obvious and predictable, horror has to lurk in the darkness and make its presence gradually and it is its absence that intensifies the feeling of the viewers anxiety. 3 stars if being viewed as a slapstick comedy, 1 as a horror movie.