If your idea of horror is watching an old hag jam her arm down a screaming girl's throat, this oral fixation might actually enhance the horror aspects. Since this was repeated again and again, everyone watching the film with me began commenting on it and cracking jokes - GAG ME TO HELL, etc - and the gross scenes began to overpower the truly scary ones. When she opened her mouth to scream, it always led to something gross spewing into or out of her mouth: blood, mucous, bugs, body parts. However, I had to take a point off because of Chris tine's unfortunate tendency to scream at the exact wrong moment. Christine must not have watched that movie).
(If we horror fans have learned nothing else from Stephen King's THINNER, we've learned not to piss off an ancient gypsy. I liked Christine, I liked her boyfriend, and I liked their working together to break the curse put on Christine by an old gypsy hag. Like Naomi Watts in THE RING, Lohman was pretty without looking like a porn star she took responsibility for her actions and had to make some difficult moral choices and she actively investigated the mysterious happenings rather than sit back and be victimized. The heroine, Christine (Alison Lohman) is the type of strong female character you don't often see in horror films.
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I was tempted to give this movie a 5, for the following reasons.
Fans will get a kick out of seeing her inexplicably leave her gob agape as putrid projectiles pour in, and hearing her, after a bit of pushing, spout a Campbell-ism or two ("I’m gonna get me some!"). While it may come as a minor shock that Bruce Campbell, the beloved mouthpiece of the EVIL DEAD franchise, is nowhere to be found in this unabashed horror-comedy, Christine is an excellent twist on Raimi's genre-hero archetype. Similar to HBO’s classic TALES FROM THE CRYPT series, HELL feels like a living, breathing EC comic. The next three days of Christine’s life amount to an unimaginable endurance test in which she is subject to physical and psychological torture while a terrifying demon draws ever closer to take her to hell, where she would burn for eternity.Raimi manages to keep the feverish awfulness of DRAG ME's central concept palpable while layering on his distinctly disturbing and exhilaratingly kinetic macabre-meets-slapstick portraiture, and the result is an efficient celebration of the art of horror movies that’s campy, scary, and fun. Ganush (Lorna Raver) seems to be the only way to secure an important promotion, Christine pushes her moral flexibility about as far as it can go (not very far at all) only to dearly pay the price as the recipient of a rather nasty curse.
When evicting a vile and negligent old woman named Mrs. Alison Lohman stars as Christine Brown, a soft-spoken Southern girl with a good heart, a PhD-toting boyfriend (Justin Long), and a job as a loan officer at a bank just outside of Los Angeles.
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