Drag Me To Hell (2009)

From the writer/director/producer and murdered (of the Spider-Man series), Sam Raimi gets back to his Evil Dead roots with Drag Me To Hell, a film which may look like it provides many scary moments but is essentially as scary as bad case of diarrhea, but is definitely as gross.

Drag Me To Hell stars Allison Lohman as Christine Brown, an everyday girl whose life is quite normal until the day she meets an old gypsy named Mrs. Ganush. Christine works at the local bank as a loan officer, in an attempt to receive a promotion to assistant manager Christine has to prove to her boss that she's capable of making the tough decisions. One of those tough decisions is providing a third extension to an old woman whose about to lose her home. She could give the old woman another shot, but a) her chances of getting the promotion would be "drug to hell" and b) hasn't Mrs. Ganush been given enough chances, is one more extension really going to help?

Mrs. Ganush doesn't like Christine's rejection, so she resorts to begging and causing a big commotion. Christine is understandably uncomfortable and calls security, this seems to only rile up old Ganush even more as she exclaims that Christine has shamed her! No you've done a pretty good job of that yourself Ganush! But we've not seen the last of the ghoulish Ganush, she actually waits for Christine after work in the parking structure and attacks her! Christine manages to hold her own, albeit for a nasty looking bag of bones Ganush can throw down. With Ganush meeting her match the only thing she has left to do is throw a curse on Christine. A curse that has a nasty creature named the Lamia tormenting her for three full days until on the fourth day he'll end up literally dragging her to Hell.

If you're searching for a truly scary movie look elsewhere, Drag Me To Hell is not remotely scary. I don't think Raimi was going for scares as much as he seemed to be going for overly gross, and if you have some sort of old lady barfing fetish you've hit the goldmine here. Because of the overblown and ridiculous old lady scenes and unbelievably corny storyline, Drag Me To Hell is certifiably a modern day mainstream B-movie, no doubt about it. Aside from that and the extremely predictable ending, it's a fun ride. Personally I'd rather watch a bad horror film that doesn't take itself seriously than a bad horror film that does, and after the corn-fest of Spider-Man 3 Raimi's doesn't disappoint here in the cheesy department. At least this time he picked the right project to do it with.

7/10