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DRAG ME TO HELL film review

Started by evilthing69, June 06, 2009, 03:38:31 AM

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evilthing69

 :cheers:Well, its been 20 years and Sam Raimi has finally returned to his roots.  To be honest,  while the Spider Man films are dumbly entertaining, I'm not overly fond of them, or superheros in general.  Also not a fan of Army Of Darkness.  It just lacked...something.

But here Raimi returns in full mucousy glory to deliver a quick paced, sickly funny and at times downright frightening morality tale of greed, humanity and consequence.  This film is filled with slime, bugs, demons, and seances.  Sound is used as a weapon as this may be the loudest film I've ever been to.  From hushed dead silences to roaring gypsy-demons that explode out of nowhere, the film builds to one "hell" of a climax.  The female lead is "cute", unassuming.  She plays her role as a "plain Jane" country girl type perfectly and never really grasps the seriousness of her situation completely.  The gypsy witch's grand daughter, though, is one of the downright sexiest women I've ever laid eyes upon.  Oh, and the profane, angry goat had me in hysterics.  There are even a few veiled references to the Evil Dead films thrown in, which I thought was a nice touch.  And the backgrounds in the film must be paid attention to as things are always shifting and moving almost unnoticably.

There are some minor continuity flaws, but with product such as this who really needs continuity.  I kinda knew what was going to happen about halfway through. Sometimes the flaws even work in adding more of a vague detachment to the proceedings.  The film also touches on the differing beliefs of Freud and Carl Jung...quite interesting indeed.

I was initially put off by the PG-13 rating, but don't be fooled, this movie packs a much needed punch into the current, sad state of modern horror cinema. No more Spider Man films, please.

Long review short, go see this film, you shouldn't be disappointed.  I sure know I wasn't.

delboy

I read a rave review of this in one of the Sunday's last week, too. Yet my partner's daughter and her boyfriends walked out of the cinema half way through saying it was the worst film they'd seen in years. Different strokes, and all that.

I recall seeing Evil Dead when it first came out and being tremendously disappointed - but then there'd been so much hype, and the video had been banned from loads of shops, and when it was available again you had to be on a waiting list, and when you finally got a copy and slotted it into the Betamax there was no way it could live up to the build up.

I've only ever seen the first Spiderman film, which I really enjoyed. I could take or leave the super hero stuff but I thought the romance was handled beautifully.

Derek
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Robert B. Parker

Ed

Saw this film tonight - yeesh :shocked: Best pure horror film I've seen in ages. Sure, there's the cliche gypsy curse, and you can see where it's going for quite a while before it gets there, but it's a well told story with many memorable moments. Lots of gummy/slime/bile moments. Hilarious at times. Shocking at others - even I jumped a couple of times. The wake scene was particularly disgusting :grin:

Loud - you ain't kidding. Right from the start the sound builds to crescendo after crescendo. I see what you mean about the nods to Evil Dead. Those fingernails looked awfully familiar.

Great fun, all round :afro:
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evilthing69

The other nods to Evil Dead I picked up on where an Ash action figure in the background inside her house, and her boyfriend also mentioning his parents isolated cabin in the woods.

Ed

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Ah - you're more observant than me. I didn't notice them.

My wife used to get invited all over the place to watch horror films, because she screams and lifts bodily out of her chair whenever anything scary happens, so she has the effect of amplifying the shock value on those around her. She's also got a vivid imagination, which plays itself out in torrid dreams (this being part of the reason I get no sleep), and last night set her up for a bramer. She dreamt an old hag grabbed her wrist and wouldn't let go, so she bit down on the old hag's hand as hard as she could. Rude awakening - she had bitten her own hand as hard as she could. That was at about 5:45 this morning, and she still has a horseshoe of teeth marks on both sides of the base of her thumb, together with a tingling sensation. She very nearly drew blood. :grin:
Planning is an unnatural process - it is much more fun to do something.  The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. [Sir John Harvey-Jones]

leatherdykeuk

I'll give this a miss, I think. I try to avoid having such images in my head.