Where Have You Gone, Mrs. Ouspenskaya?

Rating: 4/10 (18 December 2009)

Not recommended. As evidence for how unimpressed I was with director Sam Raimi's (The Evil Dead, Army Of Darkness) Drag Me To Hell, part way through I flipped over to a ten-year-old episode of Frasier and found it much more shocking and funny. Oh where to start? Although Alison Lohman was super in Matchstick Men, she cannot carry this lead weight and Justin Long, as her boyfriend, is similarly plumbiferous. Lorna Raver was great as a repulsive old gypsy woman but she was never scary; only one jump shock caught me. The send up of previous movies (The Exorcist, Amityville Horror, Poltergeist) only showed me how much fun we were missing. I was gulled by the final plot twist only because, in rapt inattention, I ignored the first rule of set decoration. But so many people did like this movie that I wonder . . . what gypsy cursed them?