Comments on: Drag Me To Hell

By: dieselboy

dieselboy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:57:17 +0000

Here is Evil Dead in 60 seconds.Claymation style.Enjoy.

By: CJ Holden

CJ Holden — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:38:42 +0000

This morning I watched “Land Of The Lost” (short review: Not as bad as many people say, but not nearly as good as it could have been. The Giacchino score is awesome, though!) and I was surprised that it starts VERY similar like “Drag Me To Hell”.
Which means first we see the old Universal logo and then after a dramatic first scene, there is a smash cut to the title card, with very huge white letters on a black background.

By: Nickmerill

Nickmerill — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:59:14 +0000

I just saw this film with my wife. I went into it after being informed by various reviewers and critics that it was a “must see.” Lean in so you can hear me say this… IT WAS BAD! As in terrible. The premise was cool, but the execution was awful. As a kid I was a fan of the EVIL DEAD stuff but now that kind of special effects doesn’t hold up. Sure, I cringed when the old lady was gumming the protagonist’s face. I can’t recall being grossed out of late and this movie had one or two scenes, but as a horror film or a horror/comedy or whatever it is it does not deserve an ounce of praise. The scene in which they call the spirit into the room and it jumps from body to body is just garbage.

Yeah, the ending was okay though. It wasn’t incredible but it had some sort of substance to it in that we rarely – SPOILER – see a protagonist get brutally dragged to hell. I can see the sequel and that’s the girl fights her way out of hell and I probably won’t see it.

I don’t mean to be so scathing but there’s been a ton of praise for this film and I don’t get it. The action/horror sequences are straight out of XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS which is fine in 1997 sitting on my couch with no expectations.

By: rainman

rainman — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:14:22 +0000

Saw this last night with the girlfriend, who kept saying “This is silly!” and stuff like that. I had to explain to her that yes, it is silly, and these are the kind of movies Raimi makes. She didn’t like it. “Silly.”

I thought it was borderline great. I could have used about 10 times as much demonic talking goat though, that was by far my favorite part. Freaky, shocking, and actually quite scary. Instead it immediately switches to the flying Buffy-vampire-style posessed dude, which we’ve all seen so many times while flipping channels past the WB that it has ceased to be interesting at all. Well, for me anyway.

I knew she had grabbed the wrong envelope, and then was reassured that she had gotten the right envelope because you could see the round thing in it (stupid me, Mr. Short Term Memory), and then laughed out loud at the ending. Awesome.

Justin Long continually surprises me. It’s like in IDIOCRACY – you expect that when you see some well-known actor playing a pot-smoking incompetent doctor in the dystopian future that it will be a dull, uninspired, unmemorable throwaway joke. And yet he sells it and it works. Bring on DRAG ME FROM HELL: NOT WITHOUT MY GIRLFRIEND starring Justin Long as a badass CONSTANTINE – style exorcist. You wouldn’t expect the squirmy little Apple guy to be able to pull off “badass” but I bet he could, with flying colors.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:10:44 +0000

*struck

By: Brendan

Brendan — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:09:56 +0000

Having recently seen Black Sabbath for the first time, one of the things that struk me was just how much Raimi lifted from the best of the stories (The Drop of Water) for this movie. Everything from the fly and other little things like that, especially in the first Lamia attack scene, where it seems like the heroine is being stalked by noises. Good stuff.

By: hamslime

hamslime — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:18:23 +0000

That look on her face when she is Dragged To Hell is horrifying to me. Her face sinking in the way it does and she just looks so helpless. It’s also sad to know that this likable girl we’ve (I’ve) been rooting for is going to spend eternity being tortured in the fiery pits of hell. That’s some sad shit.

I didn’t really mind that she killed a cat though on account that I’m allergic to the fuckers. It may be cold but I’m about as sympathetic towards dead cats as Gordon Schumway. Only I don’t eat them.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:56:45 +0000

I don’t see any reason why Raimi couldn’t push a sequel through development if he bothered to write a script and try. He turned Evil Dead into a decade spanning franchise. He probably couldn’t be bothered though.

By: Vern

Vern — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:51:21 +0000

I guess it was my expectations they were playing with and not you guys, because I thought the ending was the best part. To me the existing ending is darker and more ballsy than the one Paul suggests. Like you said she already sacrificed a damn kitten, it wouldn’t be that shocking for her to turn on her boyfriend (who’s been depicted as mostly a pain in the ass throughout the movie). I just didn’t expect her to actually get dragged down to hell at the last second after it seemed like she got away. And all because her boyfriend is trying to be nice and get her button back to her.

Then it leaves him standing there with a dumb look on his face having possibly inherited the button for himself. I would’ve been excited for a sequel if it would’ve made money. (maybe straight to video with Arnold Vosloo replacing Justin Long.)

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:46:11 +0000

CJ – it wasn’t a deal-breaker for me, it was just a bit of a let-down after what was really a fantastic movie up until that point.

I think about movies like last year’s “Wall-E” and “The Dark Knight”… these movies are so fantastic, to me, that the few bits that are actually not good about them seem to stand out all the more. Doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy the experience as a whole, because I most definitely did.