Sam Raimi does so many things in all of his movies that can only be described as “Raimi-esque” and that is why I like his movies. This one however tried to be more serious than campy and came off a little weak.
#13 Drag Me To Hell
In short, Drag me to Hell is a movie about a girl “Christine” that works in a bank, denies a gypsy a loan and then is cursed literally to hell. She then has three days to figure out how to stop it. Here’s a twist you wouldn’t see coming, she doesn’t and dies at the end. I have seen pretty much all the stuff that Sam has done in the past. I own all three of the Evil Dead trilogy and love every second of them. The thing that Sam does well is schlocky, campy, horror. Look at Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2. Basically the same movie, just one was done to be slightly more serious than the other. That is why the sequel is better than the first. In “Drag Me To Hell” Sam takes it back to the more “serious” side of horror. It doesn’t work for me. I loved the subtle shout outs to his previous movies like the geyser of blood that pours out of the main characters nose at one point during a “nose bleed”. Or the fact that when she reaches for her drill in the shed (naturally) there is an outline of the drill, much like the chainsaw Ash attaches to his stump. There are other things that just remind me of his good movies and make me want to watch them INSTEAD of this one. It’s to bad too because I really wanted to like this one too. The switch-a-roo at the end didn’t fool me for a second because you made to big of a deal about it. This is where you needed to be most subtle and THEN later on show me a flash back and let me figure it out. Shoving a plot point down our throats is no way to make a audience guess. One final thing. When you create a poster about your movie a) don’t have the end “death scene” on the poster and expect us not to see it in the movie. b) Your tag line basically tells us that she WILL die no matter what, so the “happily ever after” ending is already ruined. Still… It’s Sam Raimi, and I love his movies. A tad surprised that his brother, Ted, and Bruce Campbell didn’t show up at some point though, since they seem to be in everything else he has done.
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