Pardon me while I collect myself. I'd drafted a review in my head as I was watching this and the whole thing just got blown out of the water by the last 5 - 10 minutes. How I view watching this film won't be the same. I guess I should've expected something more than a mediocre cliche horror from the creator of Evil Dead but I'd rather have not been disappointed.

Don't get me wrong, this film was far from amazing to me. Just the end really, really redeemed itself. I could've guessed that there'd be a twist at the end but I genuinely believed the film was going so far one way that I lost all hope of something surprising me. And that's what made the surprise so good.

I urge anyone who's looking for something more in their horrors to persevere as the film really redeems itself.

The issue I had throughout the film was the lack of substance, meaning or message. I thought, 'oh, just another film about hell, possession and gross out moments.' But everything just seemed to tie together at the end. Where's the fun in good overcoming evil all the time, huh?

Plus, I read a few reviews before writing my own and was enlightened on the theme of bulimia and the hints in imagery that link to this. This gives the story that little bit of a deeper substance which I really appreciate.

I'm still in shock.

Judging from the other reviews, it goes to show how easy it is to miss an eating disorder... That's the true horror story of the film.

The clues were everywhere:
- her gazing at the cake shop,
- her half-eaten salad at her lunch break,
- her childhood photo from the "Pork Queen Fair" when she was overweight,
- Ganush's granddaughter remarking that she used to be fat,
- the multiple times that Ganush rips out her hair and vomits into her mouth,
- the sounds of buzzing flies/creaking doors/etc. everytime she felt her stomach growling,
- her disgust with the cake she made,
- her binging on the ice cream and the obvious lie she told her boyfriend about her being lactose intolerant,
- her drinking only coffee at the diner, before succumbing to binging on an ice cream again,
- her resisting the temptation of the "free cookie" and rewarding herself by buying a new coat.

The fact that her boyfriend wasn't the one who died but (in reality) her getting run over by the train, shows that it was all in her head as she was becoming more and more psychotic, either because of undernutrition or because of an underlying form of schizophrenia.

This movie is more like a suspense thriller, than a scary movie. Still a good movie. It's worth a watch.