After spending recent years on such bigger-budgeted efforts as the " Spider-Man" movies, director Sam Raimi returned to the genre that helped him make his name.

This horror tale casts Alison Lohman ("White Oleander") as a bank employee who literally is cursed by an elderly woman whose eviction from home she causes by denying a loan. The result could be the heroine's one-way ticket to purgatory; Justin Long and David Paymer co-star. DVD extras: "video diaries." *** (PG-13: AS, P) (Also on Blu-ray)

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