Let's hope Sam Raimi teams up with Michael Moore in Michigan

Rating: 9/10 (13 June 2009)

This film is a masterful exercise in wish fulfillment, as writer\director Sam Raimi makes sure a mercenary bank home mortgage loan officer gets exactly what the majority of Americans think such people collectively deserve. This movie could just as easily be titled THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS. Perhaps there are more kind-hearted mortgage loan functionaries than kind-hearted suicide bombers, but in America no one holds a gun to your head to force you to foreclose people's homes or turn down their cancer treatments on behalf of obscenely profitable health insurance companies. In DRAG ME TO HELL, bank employee Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) has made her bed, so the victimized gypsy woman's Lamia demon forces her to lie in it.
Documentarian Michael Moore (FAHRENHEIT 9-11), a Michigan native like Sam Raimi, is shooting a movie right now about how the U.S. government allowed a handful of credit default swappers to steal the nest eggs of both the WWII "Greatest Generation" and the Baby Boomers. The state of Michigan is twice as broke as California; Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced the inmates from 10 closed prisons will be released onto the streets shortly. Granholm also has imposed North America's biggest film-maker tax credits; several closed car assembly factories are being converted into sound stages; and I just read in Detroit METRO TIMES that workers are so desperate they're appearing in non-union productions FOR FREE. In Michigan, you never know what horrific, post-apocalyptic vision lies around the next corner. It's about time Raimi and Moore hook up to produce a thrilling docudrama within the cinematic paradise of their home state!