Drag Me to Hell and Don't Show Me This

Rating: 3/10 (4 July 2010)

If there was an Academy Award for "Worst movie with a plot that could be resolved in thirty minutes or less", Drag Me to Hell would take the cake and eat it all. Sam Raimi returns after his successful "Spider Man" franchise and returns to the "Evil Dead" nostalgia he left us off with in 1987 bring us "Drag Me to Hell".
Let me first note this is not a Horror movie, hardly a suspense movie. Lets just call it a "Wanna be movie".
The plot revolves around Christine Brown (Allison Lohman) lives a normal life in present day Los Angeles working as a bank loan officer. After losing a promotion to her co-worker Stu (Reggie Lee), her boss tells her to become more strict of a loan officer and try to be more assertive and in control.
One day, an elderly gypsy woman by the name of Sylvia Ganush (Lorna Raver) walks up to Christine and asks her for a third extension on her overdue mortgage payment. Christine denies her the mortgage to seem more assertive and to prove to Mr. Jacks she has what it takes for the promotion, apologizing to her and saying there is nothing she can do. Ganush becomes angry at her and attacks Christine. She is taken out by guards a few moments later.
Fretting the issue, Christine gets into her car at the end of the day and is attacked by Ganush (which is very similar to the attack sequence in P2) who then puts a curse on her that she will be sentenced to Hell in three days.
After confronting her boyfriend (Justin Long), she then seeks help Rham Jas (Dileep Rao), a fortune teller who tells Christine she will be going to Hell in a matter of three days. He convinces her to make an animal sacrifice, to which then she kills her cat.
I shall admit this is the first movie I have walked out on in seven years (The Master of Disguise in 2002). It was not scary, a waste of my time, and after she killed the cat, I knew I was done.
I have never been a fan of Raimi's films, I will have to admit I never liked them. After seeing this, I'm guessing Raimi's "Spider Man 4" will be a little darker with satire seeing as in this film it's one of the darkest things he has done.
I should also mention this movie experiments a lot with effects. It uses including green screen, puppets, prosthetics and computer-generated imagery throughout. That's probably the only highlight since this movie wasn't at all scary.
The scene were she kills her cat was completely unnecessary, I found it saddening and just a ruin to what could have been a "decent" (and I use that term lightly) movie. Especially seeing as the Horror in this movie is very limited. The awkward silence scenes are screaming JUMP SCENE at you hoping you will jump. This movie tries to be something it will never be, scary.
Starring: Allison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, and Dileep Rao. Directed by Sam Raimi.