Don't believe the hype

Rating: 3/10 (7 October 2010)

I don't understand it. Why is the movie liked so much? Sure, it's okay, but this is just ridiculous. The special effects are tacky, the female lead Christine looks like she's in the middle of high school, the 'hallucination' scenes were bizarre and the overall plot was just average.
I stack this movie next to Stephen King's Thinner in terms of plot development: Cross a gypsy, and expect to die. Of course, in 'DMTH', the reasoning is just stupid. She's being evicted from her house because she's behind on her payments, and the lead won't extend her mortgage. Okay, Christine mentions that the gypsy has a grand-daughter she can stay with, it's not the end of the world. So she curses Christine, who just doing her job, to hell for all eternity. Overreacting, much! Okay, to be fair, she dies soon afterwards, but that's more likely to be caused by plot convenience than not having a home.
One of the aforementioned 'hallucination' scenes involves her getting a nosebleed... of tidal wave proportions. Okay, first off, no-one is concerned about her and more worried about the boss who gets sprayed on. Yeah, because that makes all sorts of sense (!) Secondly, she loses a LOT of blood in this scene, and she just runs out in embarrassment. I'm not a doctor, but I'm pretty sure she would have passed out, if not died, from that. And before anyone cries "It's a camp horror/comedy like in Evil Dead", this is not camp! It may be a comedy, but it isn't intentional.
That being said, the movie isn't horrible. It's mediocre, but it isn't horrible. The story's pretty solid, even if the reasoning behind it isn't, the acting is good, and I have to admit, I did get a few jumps from time to time. Although, given one of those jumps involved a friggin' handkerchief, some of them were pretty weak. Overall, the movie is given way too much credit. See it if you want, but don't go out of your way to do it.