Drag Me to Hell

Evil Dead director Sam Raimi takes the helm for this spook-a-blast shocker about an ambitious L.A. loan officer who incurs the wrath of a malevolent gypsy by refusing to grant her an extension on her home loan. Determined to impress her boss and get a much-needed promotion at work, Christine Brown ...more

"Try not to piss off any old ladies today," warns Justin Long's Clay Dalton in Drag Me To Hell. That's a good general rule, especially when there's a chance that the grandma you scorn may be a Satanic gypsy with an ancient demon on call 24/7. Now, there's nothing inherently scary about an old woman, except when Sam Raimi handpicks her from the Devil's nursing home. Drag Me to Hell's senior citizen psycho, Sylvia Ganush, a frightfully fantastic Lorna Raver, may very well be the scariest person ...more

Leave it to Sam Raimi to breathe some new life into the genre most closely associated with lame sequels and lifeless remakes. But while Drag Me to Hell certainly exists within the well-defined confines of the horror genre, the truth is that it feels more like a shock-a-minute roller-coaster ride than your typical fright flick. Raimi refers to his much-touted return to horror as a "spook-a-blast," which is certainly more appropriate than the traditional classification. Back in the day, Raimi's ...more