Poltergeist on steroids

Rating: 6/10 (1 June 2009)

Saw a late showing of Sam Raimi's "Drag me to Hell", and what can I tell you; mediocre.
I honestly can tell you, I don't think I can trust IMDb ratings anymore after seeing this! as of to date (June 01/2009) it has a rating of 8.3! How?? I can see this having a 6.5. My local theater rated this at 6.9, and I shunned them on having such a low rating...now I can maybe see why.
okay so...the main thing that bugged me the most on this movie was the cheap CGI effects. Mr. Raimi should have either spent a lot more time/money on the effects or had non at all.. I don't know..maybe thats not how it works anymore.
The other thing that bugged me was Alison Lohman's performance....oh god, did she ever do an awful job. Yeah shes cute, yeah her character looked like a perfect fit for her role, I just could not stand her in this movie...can't be to specific.
I'm guessing Mr. Raimi had seen the scare maze video on you-tube a bit too many times. Don't get me wrong, the scares in this are good, but they regulate on loudness. I'm talking about, coming out of nowhere and being VERY loud. If someone were to watch this with lower or moderate volumes, you would not get the same effect as in theaters.
So we will see when this comes out on DVD, and the rating drops, perhaps I am way off though and generally did not think it deserves over a 7 rating.
I will say that it was a very nice change from all the gore-fest remakes that have been spewing out of Hollywood lately.