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The Sandra Oh ghost story Umma is one giant missed opportunity
Horror is part of Sam Raimi’s filmmaking DNA, whether he’s going all-out with slapstick gorefests like theEvil Dead trilogy, adding monster-movie touches to his Spider-Man movies, or suffusing thrillers like A Simple Plan or The Gift with a more subdued form of creeping dread. So it’s only natural that he’d spend some of his big-studio capital on producing horror movies — and it’s downright confounding how few of them have been any good. Cracking B-movies like Don’t Breathe and Crawl are the exceptions. The disappointing likes of 30 Days of Night and Boogeyman have been the rule.