Last night, I managed to "drag" Charlotte (see what I did there?) to the cinema to see Sam Raimi's new horror flick "Drag Me To Hell".
Sam Raimi made his name in the horror genre as writer and director of the cult Evil Dead movies. Anyone who has seen all three Evil Dead films will know that Raimi is known for shocks and laughs in equal measure, but recently, he turned his hand to more mainstream cinema when he directed the three Spiderman flicks. Since 2002, the Spiderman flicks have taken up most of his working life, but now he's back with Drag Me To Hell.
The movie promised to be good right from the first moment I saw the trailer and some wierd old woman sticking a curse on a loan-officer when she refused the old woman an extension on her house, effectively making her homeless...
...but that is just the very start of terrible things to come.
Following an attack in the car park, the curse comes a-calling. Three days is all our heroine has to escape the curse.
What follows is truly scary. A submerging into the paranormal world as the evil spirit torments Christine to the point of insanity in the eyes of others.
I like to say that horror films don't scare me anymore, but Drag Me To Hell certainly dragged me back to the frights. There's a few comedy moments in there too along with a few in-jokes and references (notice that Justin Long, a spokesperson for Apple, is almost always using Apple products!)
It's fun, it's truly scary and it's well worth seeing.
See you in Hell!
Sam Raimi made his name in the horror genre as writer and director of the cult Evil Dead movies. Anyone who has seen all three Evil Dead films will know that Raimi is known for shocks and laughs in equal measure, but recently, he turned his hand to more mainstream cinema when he directed the three Spiderman flicks. Since 2002, the Spiderman flicks have taken up most of his working life, but now he's back with Drag Me To Hell.
The movie promised to be good right from the first moment I saw the trailer and some wierd old woman sticking a curse on a loan-officer when she refused the old woman an extension on her house, effectively making her homeless...
...but that is just the very start of terrible things to come.
Following an attack in the car park, the curse comes a-calling. Three days is all our heroine has to escape the curse.
What follows is truly scary. A submerging into the paranormal world as the evil spirit torments Christine to the point of insanity in the eyes of others.
I like to say that horror films don't scare me anymore, but Drag Me To Hell certainly dragged me back to the frights. There's a few comedy moments in there too along with a few in-jokes and references (notice that Justin Long, a spokesperson for Apple, is almost always using Apple products!)
It's fun, it's truly scary and it's well worth seeing.
See you in Hell!
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