"I don't want your cat, you dirty pork queen!"

Rating: 9/10 (30 August 2009)

Drag Me To Hell, Sam Raimi's first non-Spiderman film since 2000, was released in my city more than a week ago, on 21 August 2009, but just yesterday I finally had the chance to check it out on the big screen (last weekend was very hectic). I'm glad, my introduction to the non-Spiderman Raimi was fantastic and yes, even thought I own since more than a year ago Raimi's first feature film, The Evil Dead, on DVD I only can say that from him I have seen nothing more aside of this, the 3 Spider-man films and some parts of both Darkman and Army of Darknessshame on me, I f****** know! But I promise to myself that I will finally see The Evil Dead during this week (and Army of Darkness and Darkman as soon as possible), but well before that happens let's add some more words to this IMDb comment of Drag Me To Hell
Sam Raimi's film (he also wrote it together with his brother Ivan Raimi) opens in a typical way: we have the case that will be similar to the one that our main character will have to deal with, of course it happens many years before and of course it will be always be present in the course of the film to finally make the direct connection with our main character. And is Alison Lohman who plays this main character (thank god Ellen Juno Page dropped out the film!), she is the lovely Christine Brown and she is really great. Of course Christine will be the one dealing with the not quite normal stuff that of course would be just freaking unbelievable for almost everybody, and boy is she going to suffer. And she is basically alone, I mean sure her boyfriend (played by Justin Long) is there supporting her but is just her thing, certainly she will have to believe in well in f****** anything, the words of a psychic will be as believable as ever for her! Like I said, Drag Me To Hell is typical, is a simple film that works just about fine with the normal plot of having our main character cursed, suffering and of course seeking for help, for the way to give herself, and us, a happy ending.
And it works just about fine for those touches, for those really cool touches and for those really good and enjoyable performances by its entire cast. Justin Long, Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao, Reggie Lee, Adriana Barraza deserves a mention since they all are truly great, delivering lots of fun and memorable moments. Starting with a really cool and intense fight between the two main women of the story (Christine and, Lorna Raver's character, Sylvia Ganush) the film is full of ingenious parts, is of course full of scenes that will make your girlfriend jump off her seat and make expressions of disgust. The film is conventional in many ways of course but Raimi's touches are really terrific, those scenes that are simply funny and, mostly, those that are fun because of being sort of over the top are enough to make of this worth watching material. For example, the stuff with the cat of the protagonist: sure the "hey kitty kitty" is funny, and of course ultimately scary, but the "I don't want your cat, you dirty pork queen!" with the cat being returned to its owner is just f****** cool, just f****** fun time at the movies. Or the stuff with the boss of Christine (played by David Paymer), I mean the bloody problem of Christine, that is first scary and embarrassing for Christine, second f****** cool and fun with the boss soaked of blood and third just plain hilarious with the boss just worried for not having blood in his mouth. It's crazy time at the movies, with a crazy and vengeful old lady, an annoying fly (loved when it touches the camera), psychics that for once are not full of s***, a poor but ultimately insane goat and a poor young womanI just had a truly great time watching Raimi's latest work.