A great comedy but a terrible horror

Rating: 4/10 (21 June 2011)

It was a long time since I reviewed anything, cuz I am too lazy, but I just finished Drag me to Hell minutes ago, and I simple want to write about it. I never ever had such mixed feelings about a movie. It was a terrible horror. First of all, this gypsy curse thing is really outdated and lame. I happen to live in a country, where there are a LOT of gypsys (around 20% of the population) and they don't run around cursing people... And didn't Stephen King already do this? A whole lot better I might add.... This was rather disgusting (all the scenes with the old gypsy woman, especially after she died) or downright funny. And the demon, Lamia...right...more like LAMEia, the oh so evil spirit, who DANCES around in a fire, vomits a cat, laughs in a more over the top manner than a minor James Bond villain, speaks through a goat, acts like a high-school bully and not like a friggin demon. The scene with the obviously fake, CGI talking goat, and the possessed flying henchmen of the medium takes the cake.... i almost p1ss3d my pants laughing. On the other hand it was undeniably funny. As a comedy, this movie totally works. Somehow, at least for me, even those scenes, which were not meant to be funny, turned out to be just that. For example the scene where Christine met with the parents of her fiancé. The dialogue was so out of the character of the whole movie, so unrealistic, and the whole scene was so obviously only about somehow forcing a "romance" and some "family drama" moment in it for the ladies in the theater seats, that i laughed throughout its entirety. The "fight" in the grave with the dead woman was also hilarious. As a horror this is no doubt 1/10, but as a comedy it is at least 7/10, hence my vote: 4/10. I only recommend if you want to laugh and you don't have a weak stomach. If you want to be scared, look elsewhere.