Drag Me to Hell
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Christine Brown has a good job, a great boyfriend, and a bright future. But in three days, she's going to hell.
After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is skeptical. Her only hope seems to lie in a psychic who claims he can help her lift the curse and keep her soul from being dragged straight to hell.
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This movie is basically Sam Raimi grabbing bland, mainstream horror by the collar and proceeding to spend 100 minutes kicking the shit out of it.
And it's fucking awesome.
Incidentally, it also works as a terrific allegory for bulimia. Think about how much of the horror scenes revolve around the witch vomiting on Christine or shoving her hand down Christine's mouth or various other substances entering and exiting mouths. And think about how many random, out of nowhere mentions we get of Christine's past as a fat girl. Or how all the food is depicted as rotting or gross. It's one of those things where once you know to look for it, it's completely obvious.
But yeah. This movie's awesome. The scene with the goat especially. You all know what I'm talking about.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Hugely entertaining return to the genre which helped make Sam Raimi. It doesn't quite hit the dizzying heights of his first 2 Evil Dead films but there's enough gross-out humour and skilful set-pieces to see it succeed easily. Not scary enough? Tell that to the audience I was sat with opening night. This was one of my favourite multiplex experiences I can remember. Lots of squirming, screaming and nervous laughter from all corners. What fun. That sort of reaction makes a mockery of those who complain about ratings. Such a trivial and ultimately meaningless complaint when a film is good. A very convenient stick to beat a film with when it's not.
I do have a couple of issues. Even…
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Drag Me To Hell is a very, very flawed film. As a horror film, it's over the top, campy, ridiculous, and not the least bit scary, but as a comedy, it's actually pretty damn funny. The ending should be singled out for praise in this area ("Choke on that, bitch!"), and Alison Lohman's performance proves to me she's a really good actress, and this combined with Matchstick Men shows that she needs way more work. However, like I said before, for something that markets itself as a horror film, it's not scary at all. It made me jump, sure, but it's way too campy to be scary. This is helped in no small part to the laughably bad effects. The…
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A cracking return to the horror genre by Sam Raimi after spending the last decade making big-budget Spider-Man movies, this film makes a marvellous companion piece to Evil Dead II. Subsequent rewatches may make the film seem overfamiliar but for a slice of Three Stooges-esque horror comedy this is great entertainment.
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This isn't Evil Dead. I'm saying that beforehand because obviously this couldn't live up to that, and I will probably reference it way to much in this review. Regardless, I wish that all Sam Raimi would ever do is make crazy horror movies forever.
Drag Me To Hell has a pretty interesting, but still kind of conventional horror premise, but Raimi is able to overcome this and make a movie that sticks out, particularly in it's insane third act and awesome ending. It has a great, badass female lead in Christine Brown, who starts meek and quiet but before long will have you questioning how far she's gonna go. The scares are also really original too. For a while there…
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Pure Raimi fun.
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Drag Me To Hell is a very, very flawed film. As a horror film, it's over the top, campy, ridiculous, and not the least bit scary, but as a comedy, it's actually pretty damn funny. The ending should be singled out for praise in this area ("Choke on that, bitch!"), and Alison Lohman's performance proves to me she's a really good actress, and this combined with Matchstick Men shows that she needs way more work. However, like I said before, for something that markets itself as a horror film, it's not scary at all. It made me jump, sure, but it's way too campy to be scary. This is helped in no small part to the laughably bad effects. The…
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Oh god I love this movie. I did find it pretty scary at times, but it did feel campy at times (which was good). Excellent.
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i hate this movie
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Wonderfully refreshing horror with subtle comedy surrounding the entire picture.
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be careful what you eat.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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hardly a horror, not scary more silly. although the bile in the mouth bit gave me the willies
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Usually PG-13 horror is pretty terrible but it can be done and Drag Me To Hell is the prime example on why it can be just as good as anything R rated out there. Sure it doesn't have a ton of blood and gore but look at the original Halloween there there was hardly any blood and gore in that one but its scary as hell. That said Drag Me To Hell isn't without its bodily juices since its directed by Sam Raimi. There is really only one scene with a whole lot of blood though and that was from a hell of a gusher of a nosebleed but since its played more for laughs helps in keeping that PG-13…