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I was tempted to give this movie a 5, for the following reasons. The heroine, Christine (Alison Lohman) is the type of strong female character you don't often see in horror films. Like Naomi Watts in THE RING, Lohman was pretty without looking like a porn star; she took responsibility for her actions and had to make some difficult moral choices; and she actively investigated the mysterious happenings rather than sit back and be victimized. I liked Christine, I liked her boyfriend, and I liked their working together to break the curse put on Christine by an old gypsy hag. (If we horror fans have learned nothing else from Stephen King's THINNER, we've learned not to piss off an ancient gypsy. Christine must not have watched that movie). However, I had to take a point off because of Christine's unfortunate tendency to scream at the exact wrong moment. When she opened her mouth to scream, it always led to something gross spewing into or out of her mouth: blood, mucous, bugs, body parts. Since this was repeated again and again, everyone watching the film with me began commenting on it and cracking jokes --- GAG ME TO HELL, etc --- and the gross scenes began to overpower the truly scary ones. If your idea of horror is watching an old hag jam her arm down a screaming girl's throat, this oral fixation might actually enhance the horror aspects. As for me, I wanted to tell Christine to keep her mouth shut and maybe this would have been one of the best, most intelligent horror films I've ever seen. As it was, she opened her mouth once too often so I gave it a 4.Read full review
Alison Lohman (Things We Lost in the Fire) stars as Christine Brown, a bank loan officer who is confronted by an old gypsy woman who is being evicted from her house by the bank. After a misunderstanding the women attacks then curses Christine. From there things go from bad to worse as she is haunted by and afflicted by the demons the women cursed upon her. This movie is perhaps one of the scariest movies I have seen in a while, Director Sam Raimi pulls no punches when it comes to "gotcha" moments in this one and you do not know what to expect. Also starring in this movie are: Justin Long, Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao, Adriana Barraza, David Paymer and Reggie Lee. Its a good movie for a late night scare and I recommend it to anyone, especially with Halloween just around the corner.
Well lets see........ if you like scary looking old people, mean energetic young people trying to move up in the company by doing whatever it takes (even taking an old woman's home, just because you can, or an amazing fight seen between an 80 yr old woman and someone in there 30's. Fighting so hard that the old womans false teeth fall's out (and she has time in the middle of a fight to put them back in) now as if that wasn't bad enough, the old woman is fast enough to rip off the young ladies coat button and cast a spell on the younger woman. Not sure, but I kinda believe that could happen. Then this crazy looking creature starts coming after the young girl. The young girl was having an important dinner with her boyfriend's parents and she see's the creature coming after her there. They think the girl is crazy I do too. She talks to a professor like guy about taking the "Curse" off her. The girl goes to the old womans house the old woman is dead. The girl starts seeing things, (and for the love of goodness if you have a week stomach, don't watch the movie). The end will startle you and make you wonder about a few things. I don't want to give the movie away. I would not want to have to set through it again and I have a 27 yr old and 25 yr old and a 22 yr old that agree with me, that this is one sickening movie. Watch the movie and judge it for yourself. BTW: keep a trash can near ya so that you have something to vomit in.Read full review
Well Sam, what can I say? You really have a great deal of talent and I'm fascinated with your great sense of humor. I missed this at the theaters because it must of had limited billing. I seldom if ever pay 6.50 to 8.00 anytime to go to a new film unless it has the end of the world or something involved. I'm an avid Trekkie from 30 years back and I didn't even get excited about the newest film since it was meant to capture a new young audience. Drag Me To Hell is a great title for this film. If I didn't know any better, I would probably say that I identified greatly with the poor woman since I've felt cursed in the past, but not by an old witch. The button thing was pretty odd, and I knew she was going to have more trouble after the old gypsy witch died. Let just say that a lot of vomiting up worms, blood, and a few great scenes of gum-biting and fist swallowing from the old destitute gypsy woman will keep you frosty. This film definitely will keep you laughing if you think the same way I do about crazy films with maniacal people in them. The bank theme seems to play really well with this curse thing. Hooray! I'll have to give this 3/5 since I don't think I'll watch this again anytime soon, but I probably will want to see it again in about 10 years. IF YOU LIKE MY REVIEWS, PLEASE DON'T HESITATE TO LET ME KNOW BY VOTING. THANKS!Read full review
I was really looking forward to seeing this film. So much that whenever I found a screener available, I jumped at the chance to see it. Unfortunately, this is one film that I should have waited to see (like never.) The story starts off strong. We are first in Mexico or Spain and see a young man tormented by horrorific visions falling into a firey pit. Then the main story starts. A young bank teller named Christina is in the running to become the Vice-president of the bank she works at. Only one person stands in her way, Stu a new employee at the bank who kisses butt and attempts everything he can to get the jump over Christine. An old Gypsy woman comes into the bank to get a third extension on her home loan. In an effort to beat out her competition Christina refuses to give the woman another chance and forecloses on her home. In response the Gypsy woman places a curse on Christina. After this point the story gets a little sideways and special effects run what could have been a great concept. Christina attempts to get rid of the curse in various ways. One of these ways involves a seance where a medium hopes to trap the cursed spirit that is haunting Christina in a goat. It becomes cartoonish in this scene as the goat starts to talk to people and eventually attacks various people involved in the seance. Although I did finish this movie (ending I will not give away), I more less fast forwarded toward the ending as the film became stranger and dumber as it went along. Oddly I can take watching the horrific acting and special effects in the Friday the 13th & Nightmare on Elm Street series but I quickly lost interest in this film after 30 or 40 minutes. So Sam Raimi must have either left something out of this film, repeated too many film cliques, or messed something up in the filming stages, because this film was a dud. It might be okay to watch once but I think after that it would sit on the buyers shelf until it was later resold on eBay or some other site.Read full review
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