Raimi returns to his lower-budget over-the-top horror roots. In order to impress her boss, L.A. loan officer Christine Brown (Lohman) refuses to allow Mrs. Ganush (Raver) a loan extension on her home. Big mistake since the elderly gypsy places a curse on Christine that involves an evil spirit that starts destroying her life and in three days--well, you can see what'll happen from the title. Lots of gross-out moments, delivered in Raimi's tongue-in-cheek schlock style with Lohman being a particularly good sport considering what her character goes through (mud, bugs, and projectile vomiting included).
Sam Raimi returns to the gleefully gory world of horror this week with the above average Drag Me to Hell, a film that nearly brings a genre junkie to comparisons to the Evil Dead trilogy but falls just short of that kind of acclaim. Masterfully directed (certainly more than Spider-Man ...Read More
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