"Even nice people can go to hell"
Drag Me To Hell, a horror film directed by Sam Raimi who explores the film with death through cursing from one person to the other. Christine Brown, a working class lady dying to impress her boss with the promotion of an assistant manager meets a client during work. An old lady approaches her and begs for help to save her home where she has been living for over 30 years. Despite Christine trying to impress her boss, she rejects the old lady and refuses to help as they couldn't do anything else. However, after rejecting the poor old lady, the old lady started to curse Christine and horrbile things started to happen.
I feel like Sam Raimi has returned to the fold and raised the bar yet again for anyone making contemporary horror movies, creating what could be described as a refresher course in how to craft a fantastically scary film, without resorting to nasty tactics.
The performances are uniformly excellent and the casting, as with most of Raimi's films, is perfect. The make-up on Lorna Raver who plays the old lady, Sylvia Ganush was astonishing and really freaks people out just with the look of it from head to toe, including the scary old and yellow finger-nails. It may be a bit exageratting, however it worked totally great throughout the film as it does cause jumpy parts towards to audience especially with close-ups and unexpected picture frames of Sylvia Ganush, the image of her causes the horror throughout the film.
I find the film fairly interesting as every scenes catches my attention with drama inside and exciting storylines. There wasn't a scene that drifted me away and leave me off to somewhere else. The film jumps from one plot to another without having too much unnecessary scenes, this makes the film just full of horror as you don't have time to sit and relax after one horror to the other.
Overall, the film fits in its catergory and theme of horror and thriller. However, the only dissapointment was the ending as it was pretty much predictable to the audience and 15 minutes before the ending it already gave out the answer of how the ending would be and who will die towards the end. But you just have to watch it to the end to see how the person dies in the final scene.
