Review : Drag Me To Hell (2009)

Read the taglines in the poster, masterpiece!

Drag Me To Hell, or otherwise known as Sam Raimi's Return To Horror Street is the latest horror flick from this director who gave us the whole new Spiderman in the new millennium. As like any Raimi's horror film, the plot is super simple, with the theme of realistic person (realistic as in the character is neither a super good virgin baby sitter or morally correct, but flawed and selfish like any of us) dump in to a messy situation involving the dark forces and how he or she overcome (or attempted to) it.

This Ah-Ma got staples on her head, wears a delibrately awful looking made fake teeth and just fucking annoying.

The first half of the film in promising, with Alison Lohman as Christine Brown the out of farm loan officer trying to climb the career path and is willing to do whatever it take to get there. Well, pretty much like most of the office people here. She is forced into making a decision which I think is just, but the stubborn old gypsy lady think otherwise and end up cursing her and put her live in living hell before drag her into it.

You wake up in your sleep, try to get back to lala land and find that the one laying beside you is this Ah-Ma...more frighthening if you are a guy, I think.

So, the beginning part like always tells you how one gets into the shit, and from the on, we enjoy watching this girl in the shit. I watch Raimi's Evil Dead Trilogy in a DVD, so I have no idea how is the "shock" element in those, but somehow I was bored to know that Drag has a lot of such cheap trick of shocking the audience.

Hey, we are watching a Raimi's film, get us something gore and cheap and funny and bad ass!!! Well, we do actually get those, but not much.

Typical in Western supernatural film, handholding ceremony.

This film is a super crazy blend of shock and insane comedic moment, pretty much like Evil Dead series. One second we were shock to almost shitting, the next second it send us laughing our farts out. This is good in the sense it doesn't show that the villain or the dominant character in a scene to have cool control of everything. Even if you are a supercharged gypsy insane granny trying to kill an innocent girl, you will still somehow lose your balance and get (literally) all your teeth knocked out.

Coolest moment, dig your crave and shove something in your corpse's mouth. Try to top that punk!

And like his previous horror film, the climatic moment will be where the protagonist just let go of everything binding her before, political correct values, "good girl" mask, hypocrisy and just be a god damn bad ass Tom Dick and Harry fighting for survival. What is cooler than a scene of a nice looking lady digging out a dead granny to shove an item to the corpse mouth under the rain?! That is the only moment throughout the film that I enjoy 100%.

Overall, I still prefer Evil Dead. The FX pretty much are done by cheap CGI, maybe to maintain its campiness, but I still like those cheap physical effect they did in the 80s. Nothing can top that. To a certain extent, this is like Sam Raimi's horror film lite.