Director Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell stars Alison Lohman and Justin Long and is a horror film that made much buzz.I am not a fan of horror flicks and hardly watch any film of this genre.After hearing great things about the film i finally decided to give it a watch.And boy,was I disappointed!
Christine works in a bank and is vying for the assistant manager's position when an old lady comes to her for her loan extension. When his boss tells her she should be able to take strong decisions if she is to work as the assistant manager,she rejects the old lady's extension against her own will. What follows is a dreadful series of events after she is been cursed by the old lady.
The film is all about the curse and how she tries to get rid of it.The devil wants to take away her soul and she has to somehow think of getting away from it. Between all this,the screen space is divided between her boyfriend and a couple of fortune tellers who try to help her.
The scenes are more gross than scary.A few scenes will make you feel like throwing up and the old lady's character is certainly very irritating to the eyes.It hardly has the sense of surprising which makes it very ordinary.Alison Lohman does a decent job as the petrified girl but the plot goes haywire at times,with illogical twists.
The ending is also pretty disappointing;more emphasize on a stronger ending might have really helped. All in all,a huge disappointment.A film that will actually keep me away from horror for pretty long.
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Sorry for the low rate, I think you deserve an explination though. A review to me, should be 80% opinion and 20% fact at most. Yours seems to be 49% fact and 51% opinion. For me this doesn't make it a helpful or very helpful review. Sorry. I hated this film with a vengenance. We went into watching it thinking it was the scariest movie of the year. The hell it wasn't. I think if I had watched it expecting a comedy then I would have liked it a bit better. Kirst x
atlantis140 08.11.2009 18:33
I thought this movie was amazing. That crazy old lady got me every time though!
After a very successful detour into comic book adaptations with the Spider-Man series, ... more
director Sam Raimi goes back to his horror roots with DRAG ME TO HELL. Raimi takes the helm for this 'spook-a-blast' shocker about an ambitious L.A. loan officer who...
After a very successful detour into comic book adaptations with the Spider-Man series, ... more
director Sam Raimi goes back to his horror roots with DRAG ME TO HELL. Raimi takes the helm for this 'spook-a-blast' shocker about an ambitious L.A. loan officer who...
Advantages: Apparently if you like Sam Raimi's Evil Dead films then this film will be for you Disadvantages: Bad acting, Bad story, It's supposed to be a horror, but it made us laugh. Waste of mone
DixieChick10 04.06.2009 (04.06.2009)
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