Post by Chicago Jake on May 29, 2011 16:08:36 GMT -6
"Drag Me To Hell" is director Sam Raimi's return to his horror/humor roots, after wasting his talents on such backwater productions as the three Spiderman movies and A Simple Plan. I've been wanting to see it since it came out in 2009, and managed to pick up a used copy of the DVD yesterday.
This is what I call tongue-in-cheek horror. The story is horror, the settings are horror, and the visuals are horror, but the tone has a light-hearted hint of humor to it. If you saw either of his "Evil Dead" movies, you know just what I mean. It's not as completely over the top as "Army of Darkness," thought; more along the lines of "The Quick and The Dead."
Basic story: a sweet young loan officer (Alison Lohman) at a bank is forced to foreclose on a mortgage, kicking an old Gypsy woman out on the street. The Gypsy woman, understandably upset, puts a curse on her: in three days, she will be dragged to hell!
The loan officer, and her boyfriend (Justin Long, using all sorts of Apple products), enlist the aid of a Psychic (played not by some ancient crone, but by a handsome young Indian-looking dude, Dileep Rao), and together they hatch a plot that might, just might, save her immortal soul. Meanwhile, she battles with spirits, corpses, a kitten, hellish energies, and a goat, until the moment of her final test against the evil presence known as the Lamia.
If you like your horror with a hint of ironic comedy to it, and are not repulsed by grisly rotting corpses, projectile nosebleeds, facial stapling, or flying eyeballs, this just might be the movie for you........Jake
This is what I call tongue-in-cheek horror. The story is horror, the settings are horror, and the visuals are horror, but the tone has a light-hearted hint of humor to it. If you saw either of his "Evil Dead" movies, you know just what I mean. It's not as completely over the top as "Army of Darkness," thought; more along the lines of "The Quick and The Dead."
Basic story: a sweet young loan officer (Alison Lohman) at a bank is forced to foreclose on a mortgage, kicking an old Gypsy woman out on the street. The Gypsy woman, understandably upset, puts a curse on her: in three days, she will be dragged to hell!
The loan officer, and her boyfriend (Justin Long, using all sorts of Apple products), enlist the aid of a Psychic (played not by some ancient crone, but by a handsome young Indian-looking dude, Dileep Rao), and together they hatch a plot that might, just might, save her immortal soul. Meanwhile, she battles with spirits, corpses, a kitten, hellish energies, and a goat, until the moment of her final test against the evil presence known as the Lamia.
If you like your horror with a hint of ironic comedy to it, and are not repulsed by grisly rotting corpses, projectile nosebleeds, facial stapling, or flying eyeballs, this just might be the movie for you........Jake