Drag Me to Hell (2009)
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews Counted: 235
Fresh: 216 | Rotten: 19
Sam Raimi returns to top form with Drag Me to Hell, a frightening, hilarious, delightfully campy thrill ride.
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 41
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 5
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
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All Critics (235) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (216) | Rotten (19) | DVD (15)
Playful and relentlessly scary.
Top CriticRaimi 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.
Spider-Man director Sam Raimi returns to his Evil Dead roots in this yucky, energetic and consistently entertaining fright movie.
The aptly titled Drag Me to Hell celebrates Sam Raimi's triumphant return to frightful and cheesy horror films that elicit as many nervous laughs as cringing shudders.
Drag's a brief, blunt and utterly brilliant blast of humor, terror and wicked satire; a trifle that feels like triumph, a dashed-off flick that blows doors off big-budget competition, and is about as much fun as you can have at the multiplex.
The legitimately pleasing touches of absurdity just aren't worth the struggle it takes to make it through long stretches of apathetic moviemaking.
Leave it to Sam Raimi to breathe some new life into the genre most closely associated with lame sequels and lifeless remakes.
After a certain point, the movie becomes our own cinematic damnation from which there is no escape.
In retrospect, I don't remember much about this film other than the gutpunch of the last scene ... but my, what a gutpunch it is.
This is horror directed with a light touch but delivered like a hammer blow to the head.
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.
There's a necessary coldness at its heart, and I'm honestly unsure whether it's a plus or a minus. I'm convinced, however, that this big inner chill is part of the reason why it's still creeping me out just a bit.
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.
Raimi mastered the art of the screeching, zombie hag in The Evil Dead, and 28 years and three Spider-Mans later, he's still got it.
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.
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Movies Like Drag Me to Hell
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- Mrs. Ganush: You shamed me... I begged you... and you shamed me.
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- Shaun San Dena: Perhaps someone has cursed you...
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- Christine Brown: It wasn't me; it was my boss!
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- Christine Brown: [laughing] I beat ya you old bitch!
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- Clay Dalton: This time, try not to piss off any old ladies.
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- Christine Brown: Here kitty, kitty.
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