Drag me to Hospital

Rating: 8/10 (24 October 2009)

Holy **** I have just watched this and i'm still pretty vamped up, so please excuse my language.
But this film was so awesome and very, very scary (and i'm someone who doesn't really get that basic emotion anymore...especially with horror films).
So first off, Sam Raimi, i'd like to congratulate you on a job well done. Not only did Drag me to Hell work on all levels, it sent me to the hospital in the process (almost quite literally...bouncing around like billyo I was...I think I lost a nut...god knows what it would have been like to see it at the cinemas.) Right the film, well, the plot wasn't the most original, but it had originality injected into as it went along. The first 30 minutes of the film showed the most of this originality, for example the opening scene where the boy is dragged to hell (not many horrors dare kill a kid character...very frowned upon...tut tut...but they get round this by not introducing the character, another example of this would be Assault of Precinct 13 (the ice cream van scene) and the car scene later on are probably the biggest examples of this.
The constant body excrement and the summoning scene were also a nice touch, it reminded me a lot of The Evil Dead films actually (as was probably the purpose). The film seemed to go at a very fast pace, even though it was over 98 minutes long. This helped to build the story and show the turmoil of the lead character.
All the cast did well and were well placed to their characters (even though i've never really been a fan of Justin Long).
To summarise the movie was great and a true homage to it's horror roots. The big budget probably wasn't needed, but did not affect the film (Can't say that for some of the other horror movies churned out these days can we?).
Well done Sam and I look forward to seeing what you create next.