[...] brought us one of the most purely fun tongue-in-cheek horrors I’ve seen in a long time with Drag Me To Hell, a welcome return to his horror roots after many years of directing in other genres. However, as [...]

When I first saw the Evil Dead Films I was blown away.
and I really enjoyed “Drag Me to Hell” The only Raimi film I haven’t enjoyed was “Darkman” and I can’t rememeber why Maybe I should revisit that film.

Anyway I’m all over the place.

The point of my comment is that Raimi has a unique way of useing his camera as the point of view of the Horror which
comes right at you and in your face, and to top it off his comedic timing is right on the money.

Anyway don’t feel bad about our little actress in “drag me to hell” Campbell was suck in after Evil Dead II and came out even more empowered and kicked butt in “Army of Darkness.” So I’m sure our little actress will be battling in hell in the next installment.

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I like the fact that Raimi ended the movie with the girl being condemned. Usually, Hollywood likes the rosey cum-bi-yah endings and it’s refreshing to sometimes see the protagonist loosing.

In the initial scene, when the boy was taken, I thought the Latino woman was saying she would see the boy again but it was this Llamia dude she was talking about.

@Eric
Yeah, that was one of the few problems but I enjoyed it the whole time.

To me, the funniest moments were the young women jumping and screaming during certain scenes. In my dating days (about 6 billion years ago ), that’s why I would take a date to these type of movies. Also, what I would done, after finding out that the owner of the button is the one who gets taken, was give to someone I hated or like she finally did, give it to the corpse of the one who cursed me.

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Sam Raimi already ‘Dragged Me To Hell’ when he made me sit through Spiderman 3.

So, I’ve seen it now and I thought it was great. The only area I thought could use some improvement was the ending. It ended how it should have (even though I really didn’t want to see that happen), but the events leading up to it were as predictable as humanly possible. As soon as they put the button in an envelope, I had the rest of the movie playing through my head. I’d have loved for a quick twist right there, at the very end, where Long reaches into the envelope and it suddenly cuts to Goat Devil Dude dragging down Mrs. Ganush. That, I would have not seen coming.

I think it’s time for a sequel. Possibly where, let’s just throw a name out here, Bruce Campbell storms the joint (hell) with, oh, I don’t know, maybe a shotgun and chainsaw in tow and rescues the taken souls.

[...] Drag Me to Hell [...]

No cookies, I’m working hard on getting buff.

Vic

Vic, do I send the cookie to your house or your business?

And besides, any “real” horror movie that’s effectively scared its audience didn’t do it by utilizing R-rated gore and violence. That isn’t scary. It’s just what unimaginative directors use when they don’t know how to properly use characters, cinematography, dialogue, or the other fundamentals to create a creepy atmosphere. They resort to cliche gore and violence.

But once again, this wasn’t a straitlaced horror film. It was a dark comedy mixed with some horror. It didn’t need an R rating to achieve what I, and the majority, think it was trying to achieve- shameless horror-comedy entertainment.

Vic

Too bad this film is PG-13 , cuz I would have spent my hard earned 6 dollars to view it via theater. Now I’ll wait for the dollar theater or for dvd.”

I’m with you.For some reason I just can’t buy the fact that any “real” horror movie that’s supposed to actually be scary can be rated PG-13.I’ve seen the commercials and the blood looks like cherry Kool-Aide coming out of that guy’s mouth.

I’m not saying that the movie is bad because of it’s wuss-out rating,but it’s just not a “go-to-the-theater” type of movie for me.