An employee of the lending department in a bank refuses to approve a mortgage for an old woman of Roma descent just to prove her boss she can make harsh decisions and this triggers a series of negative events due to the subsequent curse.
After flirting with other genres, in attempts which are more (see A Simple Plan) or less (the Spiderman series) successful, Sam Raimi returns to the genre that launched and forever propelled him into the cult authors category. With his taste for gore pushed to the extreme to almost bad taste, yet so brilliantly combined with irony and dry humour that you manage to forget and dismiss that (or not, but you still love it: D), with well-dosed and unexpected suspense, with grotesque and somewhat caricaturistic fantastic elements, brought to life through special effects that might seem a bit rudimentary but are not just because they come hand in hand with the said irony and are part of what the appeal is, Sam Raimi made use of his strongest weapons and managed to deliver a horror-comedy worthy of his reputation. I'm looking forward to The Evil Dead in 2010 now that I see that he has returned to his old self.
As for the performers: Justin Long is a regular in the comic genre, although here he is more of a background character, but what I find more surprising is the choice of Alison Lohman as the main character and her agreement to appear in such a role, which is not always flattering and is quite a risky one. However it proved to be a winning ticket, because she played her part honourably.
Direction: Sam Raimi
Writing: Sam and Ivan Raimi
Cast: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Adriana Barraza
This is the translation of an older post, see it here
This is the translation of an older post, see it here
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