Drag Me to Hell

Sam Raimi is a god when it comes to low budget horror movies. Long before anyone would have given him the time of day for things like ‘Spiderman’ he was blessing the horror community with Evil Dead. While I’d love to scold and berate him for leaving us for what seemed like an eternity, I don’t have his number. If I did, I highly doubt I’d say anything vaguely rude or critical; I might beg him to let me touch him. But then he’d feel awkward.


Drag Me to Hell is everything you need in a horror-comedy. It’s flat out balls-to-the-wall enjoyable. You will laugh and you will cringe (old broads gumming your face because she can’t keep her damn dentures in her mouth is pretty cringe-worthy).

I feel like this review is slowly becoming an ‘I adore Sam Raimi’ rant, so I feel the need to pick out some flaws:
-CGI sucks (but it wasn’t used to excess and there was still a lot of ‘old school’ horror effects.
- No Bruce Campbell (couldn’t we at least have a cameo? I realize he’s become fat and unappealing on a widescreen, but I want what I want)

I wasn’t a fan of the interaction between the male and female lead roles. While I thoroughly enjoyed Alison Lohman as the cursed Christine Brown, I found myself having a hard time accepting Justin Long as her over-the-top understanding boyfriend. From an outside perspective Christine is losing her mind. She’s seeing goats and screaming at door, throwing glass and has on the whole lost her marbles. Even the best of significant others would need a little break or would seek mental help for their loved one, at the very least. That being said, if he didn’t pay for the séance because of being pussy-whipped, the movie wouldn’t have had such a gobsmackingly hilarious straight-outta-Evil-Dead dancing possessed guy. So I cope with the overly understanding boyfriend.
I love Raimi’s style, I love his sense of humour and his ability to blend horror and comedy into a brilliant concoction with just enough cheese to make you giggle. He sprinkles it with suspense and sticks a big bloody, oozing bow on top.