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Raimi should go slumming more often.
The dichotomies director Sam Raimi presents within that familiar genre are what make this such a kick.
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.
Truly, this is manna from hell.
This grosses you out but it also makes you laugh at how crazy it is.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Director Sam Raimi returns to his Evil Dead roots for this tongue-in-cheek gorefest -- one part spooky chiller, one part campy chuckler.
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.
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.
While few are going to accuse it of breaking new narrative ground, it proves one of the most satisfying horror films of recent years.
Sam Raimi returns to his horror roots in the unrelenting and cheerfully macabre spook tale.
Drag Me To Hell is the thrill ride Sam Raimi should be making year-on-year, not another cash cow hapless Spider-Man film.
Contemporary economic crisis provides interesting backdrop to otherwise simple and rather predictable horror movie plot.
Thrilling, in ways both expected and less so, as prone to provoking giggles as it is gasps.
Raimi embraces hoary clichés like Gypsy curses and gateways to Hades in this cautionary tale for financial professionals.
This certainly qualifies as an auteurist work, but I prefer my Sam Raimi diluted.
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.
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.
Raimi puts his pent-up energy to good use in Drag Me to Hell, an unpretentious horror hoot that's scary and funny in equal measure. [Blu-ray]
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