Drag Me to Hell May 2009

Yes! Something that actually scared me, sending gooseshivers down my spine. This kind of had the feel of a Stephen King spin off called Thinner (where the man was getting a sexual favor while driving and it caused an accident where a gypsy was killed. When he got off scotfree the gypsy's spouse placed a curse on him where every day he got thinner and thinner no matter how much he ate and tried to find a way to break the curse)

This is like that in that Christine (played by Alison Lohman) works at a bank that is getting quite competitive. She is in line along with another gentleman for a big promotion but she is too sweet with the customers. She doesn't like denying loans or recalling them. After meeting with her boss about the position she wants she picks the wrong woman to develop a backbone with. Mrs. Ganush is a gypsy who comes in to beg a loan extension on her house. She's already had several. Christine battles with it but decides to deny the loan extension to which the gypsy kneels on the floor to beg, security has to be called to get her out of there. After work Christine finds Mrs. Ganush waiting for her in the parking lot. She is anger at being publically shamed in front of all and after a quick physical tiff she grabs a button off Christine's outfit, curses it then hands it to her. The curse is that of the Lamia..its a demon who haunts and torments the victim for so many days before finally at the peak of it opens a doorway to hell and drags the victim through it. At the beginning of the movie we see it done to a young child, prolly not even 10 years old, who stole from a gypsy and could not break the curse in time.

Christine's time is ticking down rapidly among physical and psychological attacks and she learns to break the curse she must get the caster to lift it voluntarily, or give the button away as a gift and thus passing on the curse to them. Mrs. Ganush passes away leaving Christine either to pass on the button which will damn someone else or try to find another way. She enlists the help of psychic Rham Jas (played by Dileep Rao) despite the protestations of her boyfriend, Clay Dalton (Justin Long) who begins to think she's gone looney as he doesn't believe in the supernatural.