The joy of the movie lies partly in the grossness of the old woman, one of the most memorably vile caricatures in the whole of cinema.Ĭlearly, Hungarian gipsies are not an influential pressure group, or Raimi might have felt inhibited by political correctness. ![]() The gist is that our heroine has three days to lift the curse, or a demonic, goat-like Lamia (clearly a refugee from Jacques Tourneur's 1957 horror flick Night Of The Demon) will grab her and take her screaming down to Hades. She also has one eye, when - as Dickens remarked of Wackford Squeers in Nicholas Nickleby - 'the popular prejudice runs in favour of two'.Įven those of us who might not automatically warm to members of the banking profession will see our heroine's point when she turns down the old hag's demand for a loan, and will flinch when the disappointed customer responds with that age- old standby of horror fiction, a gipsy curse.
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