Sam is bringing scary back, those other directors don't know how to act, I think it's special what's... um, yeah, I suck at opening lines, sorry

Rating: 8/10 (6 June 2009)

Hmm, it's interesting on some of the reviews I've been reading on IMDb with users saying how Sam Raimi has "returned", hmm, when did he leave? Well, I'm assuming because he hasn't really done a horror movie for a while, he got into those crazy and over the top Spider Man movies(I'm not dissing, loved Spider Man 1 and 2). So when I first saw the trailer for Drag Me To Hell, I can't tell you how excited I was to see the movie then came, sigh, the rating. PG-13 horror movies are normally pretty terrible, they don't have much suspense and are so tame that it couldn't scare the super intelligent 5 year old. But, somehow, Sam Raimi, our awesome director of such cult classics as The Evil Dead series and Darkman, has brought us the intense and sure to be a new cult classic "Drag Me To Hell".
We meet Christine Brown, a loan officer with a promising future. A position for assistant manager has opened up at the bank where Christine works, and both she and her rival co-worker, Stu, are up for the promotion. Christine's boss, Mr. Jacks, advises her that she needs to demonstrate that she can make tough decisions and hard calls when she needs to. That same day, Mrs. Ganush, an elderly Gypsy woman, asks for a third extension on her mortgage because she is struggling with her economic problems due to her sickness. Christine, after a private talk with Mr. Jacks, denies Mrs. Ganush the extension against her better judgment to prove herself to her boss. In desperation, Mrs. Ganush begs Christine, and kissing the hem of her skirt. As a crowd of customers and employees gathers, Christine panics and shoves the woman away, shaming her in public. That night, in a parking garage where Christine is walking to her car, she notices Mrs. Ganush's yellow vehicle parked across from hers. Christine enters her car and realizes that Mrs. Ganush is staring straight at her in the back seat. After a short struggle, Mrs. Ganush removes a button from Christine's jacket. Mrs. Ganush places a curse upon the owner of the button and says to Christine, "Soon, it will be you who comes begging to me," before returning the button. Pretty much Christine enters the seventh circle of Hell at this point with this curse and tries to get rid of it through the help of her boyfriend, Clay and fortune tellers.
Drag Me To Hell was very cleverly made and even has a morbid sense of humor to it to give the audience a breather. That's why Sam is awesome, he knows what it's like to be the audience, with so many horror movies today that are just a huge loud noise to scare the audience and it's the cheapest horror trick now in my opinion, he adds a joke to it to let the audience go with the flow of the story. This film is gross, gory, funny, scary and just all together a great horror experience. I have to say that one of my most hated clichés in horror movies are the old people that are supposedly creepy, but aren't, Mrs. Ganush definitely made me not only cringe but made me make my boyfriend to promise to shoot me before I get old well, she was scary! Trust me, really scary; ah, just go see the movie, it's a good recommendation.
8/10