im a horror/gore fan from way back

this has defn piqued my interest...and its directed by sam raimi?...thats almost @ must see status

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but the PG-13 has me kinda upset.....

I'm hoping for the psychological weirdness of the Evil Dead movies.

I'ma be playing "Where's Bruce and the car?".

Looks right in line w/Raimi's other work. I'm going opening day.

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and i so don't want it to be.

Bruce Campbell dubbed it Splat Stick.




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i'm there.




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There is no Evil Dead w/out Bruce Campbell!

... film-making.




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don't mind me.

it has rave reviews and a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/drag_me_to_hell/

Eventhough I don't trust them anymore, I'm pretty surprised at that high a rating for this kind of flick.

... especially the likes of Raimi's specific brand of horror.

But it most likely isn't.

I think that comedy horrors have such a bad reputation for bombing in the past couple of years, that they decided they needed to cut a trailer that made it look like your average generic horror flick.

Haven't checked for Evil Dead series, but the critics are loving it also. I so want to see a decent witch/curse horror movie. Maybe this is one?

Do me a favor, light one up/buy a fifth/ shoot up (whatever you do) and go rent that movie.

It's WAY better than Drag Me... is going to be.

Maybe that's why its gonna suck

i was like this looks kinda dope, then I saw the title... "Drag Me To Hell" really?


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Come on East Coast, SOMEBODY saw this shit.

Post up!

and that shits going to be some subversive fucked up comedy..the kind i like!

I caught the cheap show this afternoon and holy shit, I haven't enjoyed a movie this much in a long time.

If you're even partially a fan of Sam Raimi/Evil Dead, it is a MUST MUST MUST see.

If you enjoy horror/suspense even just a tad, it is a MUST MUST MUST see.

If you want to see a movie where you're terrified one second and balls out laughing the next (intentionally by Mr. Raimi) and then terrified again, and then laughing hysterically at something you would normally think you shouldn't be laughing at, it is a MUST MUST MUST see.

I know there will be people who don't enjoy this movie, but damn... I will be seeing it again.

I've never encountered another director so perfect at such a specific form of horror than Raimi. It really pisses me off that he even bothered making other types of films when he could have been pumping out movies like this all this time.

The music is great.

His use of sounds is top notch as always.

Oh and if you enjoy this, you will definitely appreciate Evil Dead.

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Clearly that formula has pumped out a TON of classic horror lately.

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Nothing like seeing a good gore/comedy with a lot of other fans of the genre.

Feels like home.




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minus the scar marks my girl left on my arms and my eye lid from when she jumped and accidentlely hit me this movie is GREAT!! visually AWESOME!!! the soundtrack was very intense and will have you jumping out yo seat!!! The story is excellent and the movie has plenty of comic relief but then in a split second you'll be horrifically jolted out yo chair!!!

1 of the best well crafted horror/thriller films ive seen in a while!!!

if you are a horror movie fan, check it out.

dope direction, doesn't take itself seriously like say, an eli roth movie, decent plot and 'fun' twist at the end.

still pondering... maybe tonight.

as people have mentioned, horror and comedy

plus, the pg-13 rating doesn't take away from the picture

and raimi references the hell out of himself

really enjoyable

a fun and mindless horror/comedy hybrid that could only come from a Sam Raimi, Peter Jackson, or G. Del Toro.

It had a few plot holes, which is expected in this type of film...It really bothered me in the scene when she first gets thrown around her house and cuts/busts her lip and looks a hot mess, than cut to the next scene that evening and she is chillin' in bed with no cut, hair and make up on point...just made me cringe like...ya'll could not see that when ya'll was editing or something?

Also, the CGI was horrible in some key parts...one example being the attack in the tool shed/garage when her eyes come out. Come on Raimi, you would not allow that wackness in an early Evil Dead flick...it felt like it was his Spiderman-side saying..."no we can't use too much make-up effects". It could not have been that hard for the KNB boys to make that scene look great with make-up and still get a PG-13.

Anyway, dumb little things here and there (too many expected jump scenes cued to loud noises, corny scenes-the dancing possession scene, etc.) still did not take away from this fun movie.

Worth seeing, but not the greatness it could have been.

will go see it again

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I got stuck into seeing it again with the kids today and I liked it even less.

It had it's fun elements...but, "loved it"?

I admit, it is cool compared to all the garbage in the cinema these days...minus "Star Trek", which was surprisingly good. However, do you agree that "Drag Me To Hell" had the potential of being great? To me, the CGI killed this from being that ish!!! It was that bad.

the ending was too predictable even for raimi's standards and it became obvious at the beginning of the third act...

some of the CGI was lame...

but, it was the perfect mix of horror and comedy, which Raimi does WELL.

I'm hoping that Diablo Cody's Jennifer's Body (September 09) and Joss Whedon's The Cabin In The Woods (February 2010) can also bring the horror-comedy goodness like this....

I will say that this movie was like Sam Raimi's atonement for making Spiderman 3.

But the ending. Yeah, the way it played out was predictable. Then again I almost feel like a dummy for putting that against the movie, considering the title is DRAG ME TO HELL.

like it would have been less predictable if, let's say, they got to the cabin in santa barbara and just when dude proposed to her, she gets snatched and taken to hell...

or, it would have been surprising and a shock if, after she shoved the envelope in Mrs. Ganush's mouth and crawled out the grave and the sun came out, she thought she got away...

and BOOM..that wasn't sun but the depths of fiery hell engulfed her..fade to black...

but it was a good movie..but yea, raimi could have NOT made the predictable ending that predictable evil dead wasn't like that was it???

I felt like she was channeling Ash a few times in the movie though.

Oh, and that was the most bad-ass handkerchief ever.
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But Bruce Campbell was working on some show...Burn Notice? He couldn't do Drag Me To Hell.

I wonder what part he would have gotten. Maybe Justin Long's Dad?

that was simply a blast. we had great fun... it had

("Generic" SPOILER descriptions to follow...)

...some creepy stuff, some jumpy stuff, some gross stuff and of course, some funny stuff...

My wife and i are fans of the other stuff Rami did back when..."Army of Darkness", "Evil Dead" etc...the horror/comedy mix that he's played with...

well, i think in this one he's pretty much mastered it...for me, "Drag Me To Hell" has the perfect ratio of both elements...

like i said... a fun ride...

been a while since my wife and had I left a movie, gone to dinner and after that were STILL chuckling to ourselves with enjoyment remembering certain scenes...

well done i say... we'll probably see it again

I didn't really find it all that funny, which I'm VERY greatful for.

2ndly, did anyone else think that HE was gonna get dragged to hell in her stead?

The minute she lost the envelope I was thinking....Aw shit! She's going to have to watch her BF dragged to hell and know that it was all her fault.

I thought that would have been a little more terrifying on an emotional level, ya know?

>I didn't really find it all that funny, which I'm VERY
>greatful for.
>
>2ndly, did anyone else think that HE was gonna get dragged to
>hell in her stead?
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>The minute she lost the envelope I was thinking....Aw shit!
>She's going to have to watch her BF dragged to hell and know
>that it was all her fault.
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>I thought that would have been a little more terrifying on an
>emotional level, ya know?

yeah, thats what i was thinking was going to happen as well...HIM gettin dragged...(and i also agree with you that HIM getting dragged while SHE watched in horror knowing it was HER fault would have actually been a much more emotionally powerful & more painful heartbreaking ending.)

Creepy on so many levels.

It was ok but nothing more

*spoiler*
Oh yeah ... and was anyone else disappointed they never got to the cabin? I just knew he was going to take it back to an Evil Dead type setting. He did use the exact same sound effects though.
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I guess folks REALLY wanted to embrace that "Sam Raimi return to form." It wasn't very scary, wasn't all THAT funny except for a couple of moments. If Evil Dead is a stick of butter, this is a spoonful of margarine. Alison Lohman did a good job though... although did anyone else sit and think "This is exactly how Jenna Fischer would have played this part?" She even LOOKED a bit like Jenna Fischer...

I would sue the shit out of dude or at least get a full refund...
also, was it too much of a coincidence that he put his lucky quarter in a similar envelope in the same location to get it confused with the cursed object?
besides that it was the best movie experience I've had this summer. Can't wait to see Inglorious Basterds later this year....

He got gyped.

>also, was it too much of a coincidence that he put his lucky
>quarter in a similar envelope in the same location to get it
>confused with the cursed object?

As soon as he sealed the coin in the envelope, I knew that somehow it was going to ruin everything.

>"This is
>exactly how Jenna Fischer would have played this part?" She
>even LOOKED a bit like Jenna Fischer...

I was thinking the same thing, but in an admiring sort of way.

i thinks its worth the price of a movie ticket, its everything a good horror movie should be.it doesnt take itself so serious, equal parts comedy and and gross out gags and it made me jump once or twice. what separated from being a classic was where were the boobies? i would have even taken that gypsy lady's knockas

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THIS SHIT WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD!

I swear the funniest thing in the flick is...

GF: I used to have a cat.

BF: don't you mean you have a cat?

GF: you know, they come and they go.


HAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAAAAA!

I swear, i saw the movie 2hrs ago and i'm still busting out laughing!

And I'm not sure it would work as well seeing it at home. Having a crowd really helps. There are some scares but it's mostly a schlocky campfest that hits the mark.

Not really sure about this, but since it's Raimi returning to horror/thriller, I'll watch it.