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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 1208
Released: October 13, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) is on her way to having it all: a devoted boyfriend (Justin Long), a hard-earned job promotion, and a bright future. But when she’s forced to make a tough decision that evicts an elderly woman from her house, Christine becomes the victim of an evil curse. Now she has only three days to dissuade a dark spirit from stealing her soul before she is dragged to hell for an eternity of unthinkable torment. Director Sam Raimi (Spider-Man and The Evil Dead Trilogy) returns to the horror genre with a vengeance in the film that critics rave is “the most crazy, fun and terrifying horror movie in years!” (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly)
Description of Drag Me to Hell:
Touted as a return to Sam Raimi's horror-movie roots, Drag Me to Hell is indeed closer in spirit to the director's Evil Dead pictures than to his Spider-Man films. You got your gypsy gargoyles with rotted dentures, your upchucking corpses, your flexible two-way orifices--yes, Raimi's definitely back in the saddle. There's even a story: a sad loan officer (Alison Lohman) turns down the aforementioned denture-wearing gypsy for a loan extension, which leads to an evil curse and a date in hell in three days' time. A séance, an animal sacrifice, and a session in a storm-tossed graveyard will make the 72 hours pass very nervously, thank you, along with assorted scares. Justin Long plays Lohman's upper-class boyfriend, and Raimi fills the rest of the cast with some unusual and unfamiliar types. Along with the giddy horror-comedy that bursts out of the movie every 10 minutes or so, there's also an underlying mood of pity: Lohman's character is something of a hard-luck sad sack, who does enough wrong things to make her seem like a truly abject individual, well outside the heroic model of most multiplex offerings. (Lohman's own little-girl-lost quality adds to this feeling.) But don't let that get in the way of the fun-ride aspects of this goofy enterprise: Drag Me to Hell is a bunch of Z-movie gags wrapped in top-drawer production values. --Robert Horton
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Drag Me to Hell Reviews:
Only Dragged a Bit 
2009-12-15 - It is nice to have Raimi back in the horror genre. With the bonus of a decent budget for once, he could cut loose a bit with the special effects. Drag Me to Hell is a familiar story of a gypsy curse which I have read in books as well as seen on the big screen(Thinner). It is more a morality play that would have made on hell of a modern Twilight Zone episode. An hour and a half is a bit long for the story, but Raimi and the cast keeps things moving for the most part. Though there is some black humor, this is more of a straight horror than Evil Dead 2 and 3 were. Nothing tremendously scary, but plenty of gross body fluids. A plus for the ending and for the gypsy woman(great actress).
I love it when a good director returns from the darkside
2009-12-15 - We all know what happened to Sam's career it blew up all over us. The Gift offered brief respite, but overall that giddy comic glee that made us fans only showed up on once in awhile in the Spiderman series. A return to form is DMTH, not in the sense that we need gore and nastiness right now, but we NEED some cartoon horror Raimi style and that is what is served. A great story idea fleshed out well with an excellent performance here and there. The dialogue seems silly and character motivations are contrived at times, but the atmosphere and finale make up for the imperfections. The CG simply shouldn't be here, especially one sequence it just looks awful especially on BLU, when it good have been an old school eyeball popping good time. On a side note does anyone else ever get work besides Justin Long, he doesn't ruin the movie but he is showing up too often for my tastes lately. Meager extras for such an important return to form but at least this flick packs an entertaining punch. I thought of Crime Wave often (which really deserves proper release in either format at this point in the director's career),and that made me smile.
Dragged for 99 minutes. 
2009-12-14 - I watched Sam Raimi's Films growing up, Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, Darkman...I understood that they werent "horror" movies, they were tongue in cheek goofy movies that had horror elements interlaced with shocking moments. When I found out that Raimi was going back to these roots, after doing the Spiderman movies, I was excited to see what he had to bring us. Such a hiatus HAD to have built up some new goodies for us to look at right? WRONG. Raimi could have rebooted his franchise , but instead he sold his soul to the CGI gods and gave us an unoriginal, boring, disgusting movie that will guarantee to waste 99 minutes of your life. You wont get those back folks.
Alison Lohman and Justin Long are two good actors, Justin does great with comedies and we all know that Alison can do drama, neither are put to good use with this script, or with Raimis direction. A bank worker, hopeful to be promoted, tells an old gypsy lady that she cannot extend the loan on her house. The gypsy then curses the girl and thus begins the drag down to hell, or really thus begins a complete adventure into "been there, seen that, where is my refund" The Saw movies correctly use the gross out horror, at least its original. Drag me to hell uses the same gag over and over again, the gypsy vomiting various materials into our poor girls mouth, gumming her in the interim. Over use of CGI, and poor animation leaves you wondering if you are supposed to be scared at all? I mean even the Evil Dead had those moments where the slapstick horror was put aside for some creepy moments, this movie had zero of that. I felt like I was watching every single bad SyFy made for tv movie ever made! Cmon now, a talking goat? a fake dead kitten? shadows under the door? flies into noses? I was so bored out of my mind!
I wouldnt recommend this to any fan of horror, Sam Raimi, or even to anyone who likes movies in general. Watching grass grow is more interesting.
Sam Raimi is BACK! (doing his trademark stuff.) 
2009-12-12 - I am a Sam Raimi fan. Have been long before "Spider-man." If you're looking for a re-boot of the campy but well directed, often humorous ~Evil Dead~, you've come to the right place. Albeit a bit less schlock a bit more shock. If your a fan, Enjoy! If you're not? It'll beat any of the Horror ripped off the Japanese & Koreans of late and brought stateside as a much less effective production.
-Peace
A Treat for Horror Fans: Real Fun is Back!!!
2009-12-12 - Drag Me to Hell is a great film in the sense that it is so ridiculous that it works: so cliche, so gross, you can't help but be mesmerized at the Raimi Brothers' genius and love for horror in its true form. This movie has been brilliantly reviewed by others here, so I will be succinct here by just saying: this movie is worth seeing at any time of the year, and is REFRESHING!!! Enjoy!
