Drag Me to Hell!
After an extended stay atop Hollywood’s go-to blockbuster directors list, Sam Raimi returns to where it all started with Drag Me to Hell… Campy, over-the-top, gross-out Horror!
Christine (Alison Lohman) plays a gal who seemingly has everything going her way. She’s up for promotion at her bank and she’s got the Mac Guy (Justin Long) just about to propose. But when she decides to score some brownie points with her boss by foreclosing on the home of an elderly Gypsy woman she gets a little more than she bargained for… A curse! Over the next three days Christine will be tormented by a demon who after the third day will finally appear and… you guessed it… drag her to hell! Time is ticking for her to figure out some way to lift the curse, get the promotion and impress her boyfriend’s parents.
Working with a modest budget and no recognizable stars (save for Justin Long, whose “Mac Guy” persona Raimi uses for a gag here and there), Raimi, along with longtime collaborator and brother Ivan, shows why he’s such a great director by taking the simplest of yarns and weaving something scary and, most importantly, incredibly fun! And while there is no Bruce Campbell, this film is dripping with the same signature style that made the Evil Dead trilogy so beloved. Go see this now, and see it in the theater. Raimi makes full use of a theater’s surround sound to build up suspense and make you jump out of your seats on numerous occasions, something that may get lost once Drag Me to Hell hits DVD.
Now let’s keep our fingers crossed that Peter Jackson sees this and feels compelled to go back to his roots as well!
May 31st, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Please Peter Jackson, we need an updated version of Dead Alive!
May 31st, 2009 at 1:30 pm
This is such a kick ass movie! Hope more people go out and support it!
May 31st, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Fuck no, don’t remake Dead Alive!
Stop re-making classics into shitty ’09 blockbuster flops that make it into the $5 bin in walmart
-lame random staples in her forhead dude
May 31st, 2009 at 4:18 pm
“lame random staples in her forehead dude”
Maybe you should see the movie before you make that comment? There’s nothing random about them and there’s nothing lame about the scene where that still is taken from.
May 31st, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Unbelievable movie.
May 31st, 2009 at 9:56 pm
How awesome was the whole switcheroo!? He gives it to you twice and you STILL never see it coming.
May 31st, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Is it okay for me to write a deconstruction of this movie?
May 31st, 2009 at 10:57 pm
knock yourself out , just do it in a new Post and don’t wait like weeks after the fact to do it.
May 31st, 2009 at 11:08 pm
mike you failed to tell us that Ease Daman played a psychic in this movie.
May 31st, 2009 at 11:11 pm
that guy doesn’t really look like Ease. He has a kind trusting demanor… just the hair and beard
June 1st, 2009 at 12:14 am
Let me correct My PAl The Crook in the spelling of demeanor and then say this moving is frucking dope ! DOPE DOPE DOPE ! P.S Twerps! screamed like a girl a good 3 times during the movie.
June 1st, 2009 at 1:48 pm
A perfect combination of scary, funny, tense, and campy all rolled into one. I wish Raimi would stick to horror films cause he kills every time.
Plus it had the best “gumming” scene ever!
Definitely worth the price of admission and then some, go see it.
June 1st, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Classic Raimi. Me and Tiger Teeth had the distinct honor of sitting on either side of some punk who kept grabbing us during every scary scene. He had such a “creepy touch”:O
June 1st, 2009 at 4:07 pm
T.cobra: where’s the deconstruction?! we went through this last night, i want to see what else you’ve come up with… bring it!
Also, after walking out of this movie and everyone pinning Ease as the psychic, I realized, no, in fact Ease is a 70′s PORN STAR. naturally with the powers to see pussy in his future…