![]() ![]() ![]() Also Christine’s boss and her “nemesis” (played by Reggie Lee) felt a bit one noteish and flat. ![]() A few times was good, a few more was great, but it got to the point where the audience was almost rolling their eyes when it comes up again, and again, and again, and again. The overabundance of vomit as the most used visual gross out gag can get a bit overbearing at times. While Raimi is great and back to form, he does make a few missteps that weaken the film. The cat sacrifice is so darkly humorous that it deserves a nod. The scene near the end with the goat getting possessed by the Lamia had me in stitches, and even though it’s almost sickening. Raimi does use these performances to his advantage, pouring in an over abundance of vomit and gooey gross out moments, while also interjecting his trade mark wicked humor in copious quantities. Justin Long is equally as good, but only for the reason that his annoying nerdiness that he’s known for works so well as an annoying boyfriend who can’t seem to grasp the gravity of the situation and infuses everything with his know it all attitude. Alison Lohman plays Christine with a such a down to earth presence, that her terror and suffering seems palpably visceral. Sam Raimi comes back with a bang, and although there are a few awkward moments, the movie is filled with devilish glee. This evil spirit has given her three days to appease, otherwise he will (yes, it is that cheeky)…….drag her to hell. Turning to her psychology laden boyfriend (Justin Long) yields nothing, forcing her to beg help from a spiritual guru (Dileep Rao), who informs her that she is being preyed upon by the evil spirit known as “the Lamia”. Voices whispering in her head, strange visions, and even physical manifestations. Thinking that it was just a batty old woman, Christine goes home, only to have strange events start happening. Christine done ticked off the wrong person here and she is set upon by the Gypsy mama and cursed in her own parking garage. Against her kinder nature, Christine refuses the old lady and has her thrown out in the cold, much to her own chagrin and her manger’s approval. Ganush (Lorna Raver) comes into her branch begging for a little more time to make payments before the bank forecloses on her. Young Christine (Alison Lohman) is fighting for a job as assistant manager of her bank job, when a kindly old Gypsy woman named Mrs. The classic story about those nasty gypsies. Drag Me to Hell brings back the scares and the grins with equal quantities, as Sam Raimi plies his craft in an oldy, but a goody, scenario. Hearkening back gooey, nasty films of the 80s, this little horror film is infused with typical Sam Raimi black humor (not as much as Army of Darkness, but still a bit more than The Evil Dead), and a macabre sense of evil glee that left me with a big sloppy smile all over my face. Sure, it didn’t have the blood and gore of his previous films, but Drag Me to Hell is a nasty, gruesome, twisted, and completely Raimi film to its very core. I went to the theaters actually kind of depressed, expecting the film to be a watered down facsimile of his former works (I remember my horror nerd buddy was trying to put a positive spin on the rating, but even he was having a hard time with it), but I was pleasantly shocked to find out that Drag Me to Hell was a huge return to form for the director. ![]() The only thing was, most of us were more than a little put off by the PG-13 rating from a man who cut his teeth on R rated stuff that pushed the envelope. But horror fans got more than a little excited when the legendary creator of The Evil Dead franchise was coming back to his roots with a good old fashioned scare fest. Sam Raimi had been out of the horror business for quite some time, instead focusing on the Spiderman trilogy, as well as other differing variations. 2009’s Drag Me to Hell was a breath of fresh air from an otherwise stale and languishing horror genre. ![]()
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