Well, after all, it WAS Sam Raimi

Rating: 7/10 (26 October 2010)

I remember a few thousand years ago when I first saw Evil Dead, I was a teenager at the time and didn't quite understand the whole horror-as-comedy concept. The beginning of Evil Dead WAS scary, but then it just got silly. "dead by dawn, dead by dawn" was ingrained in my brain for months afterward. This movie is very much the same, it starts out good, it starts out scary, the lamia/shadow effects are good. Creepy. Then the girl drops an anvil on Sylvia (Baba?) Ganush's head (ala roadrunner/coyote) and her eyeballs pop out (ala Evil Dead or was it 2?), it went downhill from there. I shouldn't say downhill, just not scary anymore and it got sillier and sillier. Heck, it's Sam Raimi for gosh sakes! I did like the ending, but what kind of bird-brain boyfriend leaves a rare coin on the floor of his car? But as another reviewer said, I didn't really care that she got dragged to hell. Just goes to show, always be nice, especially to old foreign women. ;-)