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''Here kitty, kitty...''
A loan officer ordered to evict an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse, which turns her life into a living hell. Desperate, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul, while evil forces work to push her to a breaking point.
Alison Lohman: Christine Brown
''I beg and you shame me?''
Sam Raimi's Drag me to hell is an interesting venture. Experience a piece of nostalgia as we go back in time and have this new story but with an Evil Dead style storyline. This horror film proves itself to be not a strictly scary piece of cinema but rather more a sort of black comedy which will have you in fits of laughter at the supposedly sick happenings. Despite the content Drag me to hell's sequences of blood and gruesome gore will entice and amuse rather than shock and tantalize.
I couldn't help but notice that Drag me to hell has some superb original ideas and to contrast that it can be boring and feature some poor acting. One thing is for sure this is B-Movie substance, just like Evil Dead was. I was particularly impressed with a fight scene in a car, a rather shocking kitten sacrifice, and a graveyard scene which was purely horrific. Yet the ending was abit of a let down in it's entirety, and sadly predictable. Other than that, Drag me to hell manages to be a rather comic horror, but not in the same league as Evil Dead. It's just not scary enough.
''I desire the SOUL of Christine Brown. We will FEAST upon it while she festers in the grave!''
Performances range from a Alison Lohman as Christine Brown, whom I haven't seen before, she manages to do a reasonably good job as the films main protagonist. Sometimes she proves to be abit wishy washy and naive, others she is believable. Which is strange.
Justin Long as Clay Dalton is typical Justin Long, he seems no different in his style of acting. Similar to Die Hard 4.
Dileep Rao as Rham Jas I liked as the Indian medium, he had a strange charisma about him which also was funny and also made you warm to him.
Overall Drag Me to Hell is full of its epic shocks, and the less you go in knowing about it the better. I could go on for ages about the story and spoil everything there is to know, but that would truly ruin some of its charm it has to offer. Which is certainly not to say that it is lost after a first viewing, just that it's an experience unlike any other going into this movie watching virtually no clips and reading very little about it. It becomes a truly rewarding venture.
Sadly no Danny Elfman doing the music for Raimi, due to their fall out. Instead we get the haunting tones of Christopher Young, which prove to be similar.
Drag me to hell proves to be a mixture of fun, a bag of goodies which have sweet and sour surprises for the viewer. For me when the end comes, there is still something I wanted but never got from the whole experience, but never mind.
Raimi going back to his roots after blockbuster franchise Spider-man, going back to his formulaic horror origins, and Drag me to hell is worth checking out if you are an admirer of his previous films.
''I beat you, you old bitch!''
7/10
