Ganush ( Lorna Raver), rips a button off Christine's coat, and that leads to no end of bad things, including the very real possibility that (spoiler) Christine will find herself Dragged to Hell. An old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails asks her for a third extension on her home loan, and if there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails. Stanley Kubrick would have needed only a day with her on " The Shining," instead of the weeks he spent with Shelley Duvall. It is essential that the heroine (for horror victims are conventionally women) be a good screamer, and man, can that Alison Lohman scream. This is as obligatory as the fact that blades always make a snicker-snack noise even when they are not scraping enough something. But in horror films they always come with discordant chords and loud bangs. Shock Reveals should logically be silent, unless the Revealed is screaming. Shock Reveals are of course the moments when a terrifying image explodes from the scene, scaring the split pea soup out of the heroine. Cute kitties of course are useful in the It's Only a Cat! false alarms, and Raimi deserves praise for not using this kitten in that way. The whole movie is nudges, especially scenes involving a cute kitten and Shock Reveals. That's the kind of elbow nudge Raimi likes to provide, especially since the character really requires no surname. If "Clay Dalton" rings a bell, those are surely two of the most common names in movies there have been 761 Clays and 413 Daltons.
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