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Drag Me to Hell (2009)

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Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews Counted: 227
Fresh: 210 | Rotten: 17

Sam Raimi returns to top form with Drag Me to Hell, a frightening, hilarious, delightfully campy thrill ride.

Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 4

Sam Raimi returns to top form with Drag Me to Hell, a frightening, hilarious, delightfully campy thrill ride.

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Evil Dead director Sam Raimi takes the helm for this "spook-a-blast" shocker about an ambitious L.A. loan officer who incurs the wrath of a malevolent gypsy by refusing to grant her an extension on her home loan. Determined to impress her boss and get a much-needed promotion at work, Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) lays down the law when mysterious Mrs. Ganush (Lorna Raver) literally comes begging for mercy at her feet. In retaliation for being publicly shamed, Mrs. Ganush places the dreaded

PG-13, 1 hr. 39 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Horror

Directed By: Sam Raimi

Written By: Ivan Raimi, Sam Raimi

In Theaters: May 29, 2009 Wide

On DVD: Oct 13, 2009

Box Office:$42.1M

Universal Pictures

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Critic Reviews for Drag Me to Hell

All Critics (228) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (217) | Rotten (17) | DVD (15)

Raimi should go slumming more often.

July 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Slate

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Dana Stevens

Slate

Top Critic

The dichotomies director Sam Raimi presents within that familiar genre are what make this such a kick.

December 15, 2009 Comment

Christy Lemire

Associated Press

Top Critic

Drag Me to Hell is a sometimes funny and often startling horror movie. That is what it wants to be, and that is what it is.

June 8, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

Truly, this is manna from hell.

June 1, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Magazine

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David Edelstein

New York Magazine

Top Critic

This grosses you out but it also makes you laugh at how crazy it is.

June 1, 2009 Full Review Source: At the Movies

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Ben Lyons

At the Movies

Top Critic

It would be tempting to call Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell a budding cult classic, except its profitability and popularity may eclipse cult status.

June 1, 2009 Full Review Source: At the Movies

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Ben Mankiewicz

At the Movies

Top Critic

Drag Me to Hell's PG-13 rating holds [Raimi] back from the all-out, blood-spraying gonzo insanity he reached with Evil Dead, but he still gets away with a surprising amount of gross-out gags.

January 15, 2012 Full Review Source: Juicy Cerebellum

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Alex Sandell

Juicy Cerebellum

It could do with some more insanity. That's usually the only time it really feels alive. As it is only about half of Drag Me to Hell really hits that levels, but that's a lot more than we normally get.

March 18, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net

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Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

When a film makes me smile this much (you can't see, but it's a big smile), for this long (about a week) you know it's a great one.

March 1, 2011 Full Review Source: What Culture

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Mike Edwards

What Culture

Director Sam Raimi returns to his Evil Dead roots for this tongue-in-cheek gorefest -- one part spooky chiller, one part campy chuckler.

February 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly

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Tyler Hanley

Palo Alto Weekly

Drag Me To Hell is a genre-buster; one of the funniest and most satisfying films of 2009, and quite simply a perfect horror film. It also has possibly the greatest final-reel shock since Carrie.

October 27, 2010 Full Review Source: Quickflix

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Simon Miraudo

Quickflix

Raimi took the horror/comedy by the scruff of the neck in 1981 with his no-budget, roller-coaster of a possession film Evil Dead...and he brings his big bag of tricks to his much-anticipated return to horror, Drag Me To Hell.

August 9, 2010 Full Review Source: sbs.com.au

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Simon Foster

sbs.com.au

While few are going to accuse it of breaking new narrative ground, it proves one of the most satisfying horror films of recent years.

July 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Sight and Sound

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Sight and Sound

Sam Raimi returns to his horror roots in the unrelenting and cheerfully macabre spook tale.

July 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Matt's Movie Reviews

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Matthew Pejkovic

Matt's Movie Reviews

Drag Me To Hell is the thrill ride Sam Raimi should be making year-on-year, not another cash cow hapless Spider-Man film.

April 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Fan The Fire

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Sam Bathe

Fan The Fire

Contemporary economic crisis provides interesting backdrop to otherwise simple and rather predictable horror movie plot.

December 17, 2009 Full Review Source: Draxblog Movie Reviews

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Dragan Antulov

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Thrilling, in ways both expected and less so, as prone to provoking giggles as it is gasps.

December 17, 2009 Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly

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William Goss

Orlando Weekly

Raimi embraces hoary clich�s like Gypsy curses and gateways to Hades in this cautionary tale for financial professionals.

December 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix

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Betsy Sherman

Boston Phoenix

This certainly qualifies as an auteurist work, but I prefer my Sam Raimi diluted.

November 25, 2009 Full Review Source: LarsenOnFilm

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Josh Larsen

LarsenOnFilm

While it has the energy and the endless cinematic invention of his early work, the film's command of economical storytelling is something that once eluded Raimi.

November 6, 2009 Full Review Source: Kinetofilm

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Brian Holcomb

Kinetofilm

This rollercoaster horror film is like an EC horror comic of the 1950s come to life, an unforgiving morality tale with playfully gruesome twists and a doozy of a gallows humor.

October 19, 2009 Full Review Source: Seanax.com

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Sean Axmaker

Seanax.com

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Wasnt sure if this was movie from Jeff Dunham or a movie about me having to wake up and go to work . . it was worse it was another horror flick that just seemed eeeh

October 28, 2009

John Manard

Super Reviewer

It was made by the director of Spiderman and to be honest I wasn't surprised. It looked a lot like a mainstream horror flick. And I was proved right. Drag Me to Hell is nothing worth remembering, the idea much like the execution was highly average. I enthusiastically anticipated this film though because of the huge

February 4, 2012

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Drag Me to Hell Quotes

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1. Mrs. Ganush: You shamed me... I begged you... and you shamed me.
– Submitted by Kim F (12 days ago)
1. Shaun San Dena: Perhaps someone has cursed you...
– Submitted by Kim F (12 days ago)
1. Christine Brown: It wasn't me; it was my boss!
– Submitted by Jean J (18 days ago)
1. Christine Brown: [laughing] I beat ya you old bitch!
– Submitted by Baurushan J (4 months ago)
1. Clay Dalton: This time, try not to piss off any old ladies.
– Submitted by Baurushan J (4 months ago)

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