Drag Me to Hell
Sam Raimi, 2009
A loan officer (Alison Lohman) is cursed by a gypsy woman, and has only three days to find a way to avoid being DRAGGED TO HELL.
There was a lot of hype surrounding this movie - it was, after all, a return of one of the greats (Raimi) to the genre he got his start in. What we got, though, was a decidedly mixed bag. There were some wonderfully gooey parts, and the seance in particular was terrifically effective and reminiscent of old-school Raimi. On the other hand, there was a preponderance of cheap-looking CGI (the eye-popping when the anvil falls on the old lady is probably the worst of it), and there was some odd moralizing going on, where the movie seemed to indicate that Lohman's character deserved the curse, which is just stupid. It's a decent way to pass the time, but it's no Evil Dead.
6/10
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