Pointless and silly

Rating: 3/10 (8 November 2009)

This is a silly and not very frightening movie. Horror films have one single and simple function and that is to scare or at least disturb you. If they fail at that, they are pointless. This movie is pointless and silly. It starts from the beginning with our heroine who is simply unbelievable as an up and coming would-be assistant bank manager. I see her as a contender for head cheerleader at best. Throughout the movie, she does not engage our sympathy at all. Frankly, I couldn't give a damn what happened to her. Certainly after the kitten scene I was actively on the side of the lamia. I agreed with his mother that Mac Man could do soooo much better. Multiple silly things have been noted by other reviewers, my favourites being the anvil in the garage, the spectacular nosebleed, and the heroine's remarkable ability to dig out a 8' x 3' x 6' grave with a small shovel in the pouring rain in a few short hours. And she really needed a different spiritual adviser. He takes $10,000 from her for a ridiculous and futile exorcism and, only after that fails, he remembers to tell her a rather simple trick he could have told her the first night they met. The major fault here is the script which really did not do justice to the underlying idea in the movie. These days, dragging unsympathetic loan officers to hell has a very attractive ring to it. But the writers blew the promising story idea. Overall, not a movie for which I would demand my $5 rental fee back. But equally, I wish I had waited until it turned up on free TV.