Sam Raimi Tries To Re-Emulate The Success He Had With The Evil Dead Films.

Rating: Null/10 (5 October 2011)

Nice try anyways. With his brain running on his Spidey-man films, Sam has lost his touch with horror films. I wonder why he ever was chosen to direct the Spider-man films. To me, I think John McTiernan, Ridley Scott, Michael Mann, David Fincher, David Cronenberg, Spielberg and Lucas team when they were in top form ages ago. Come to think of it, even Brian Yuzna (Re-animator 2, Beyond Re-animator) is a good choice.
Well all said and done, Spidey is OLD NEWS now. Back to SAM I AM. This film is based on a Gypsy Curse cast by an old woman called Sylvia Ganush (Lorna Raver) whose house was repossessed (I'm in tears already). The curse is cast on bank loan officer Christine Brown (Alison Lohman). With the curse in effect, Christine must do all she can before time runs out and she is dragged to hell (literally speaking).
This film claims to be made on a $30 million budget. Do you know how much that is? After watching the film any fool could notice, that it was made very "CHEAPLY" as in SCI-FI channel films. This film is no Lawrence Of Arabia type of GRANDE film with scenic locations that are NON-US. This crap was shot in location in Pasadena, California.
Question: Where-did-all-that-$-go? Answer: S.R's over-saturated piggy bank (or Hoggy-bank).
I admired S.R for Evil Dead Trilogy and Darkman but this one is a below par effort.
The acting in the film is similar to U.S. TV SERIAL STANDARDS.
P.S I recommend you all to see Intruder (1989 film) written and directed by Scott Spiegel, the co-writer of Evil Dead 2. After watching this film, compare with Drag Me To Hell. Make your own judgement. U.S. Horror films churned out after the late 1990's are mainly crap. In fact this marks the point of decline...