My ears are still ringing...

Rating: 8/10 (31 May 2009)

Drag Me to Hell must be the single loudest film I've ever sat through in the cinema. At one point even the characters in the film were holding their ears and screaming. This, by the way, is a good thing.
Sam Raimi finally has a break from making Spiderman films and releases the horror film he's always been threatening to make for the last fifteen years. And it's good. I'd recommend that you see it as soon as possible because it's already being hyped to death.
A girl working in a bank is having one of those bad days. She's got a rival for promotion who's more ruthless than her, and apparently she's not good enough for her prospective mother-in-law. Sadly, she chooses to take things out on an old gypsy woman, and gets cursed for her troubles.
Drag Me to Hell must contain a record number of jump scares, so many that you're almost de-sensitized by the time it finishes. Raimi's no fool, however, and piles on the atmosphere, crazy editing, bizarre camera angles and a total cacophony of noise to create an hour and a half's worth of scares. Throw in some gross-out stuff, and some Evil Dead style antics and you know what you're in for. It's funny and scary, as people have been saying, and I enjoyed it immensely.
The only slight gripe I have is the CGI, which was terrible. Other than that, it's worth seeing.