Saturday, June 13, 2009

DRAG ME TO HELL 3.0*** After you have seen this movie, some of you may feel like you have been dragged through hell. The Director, Sam Raimi, is well known for his horror movies which go back to the 80s with his classic “Evil Dead” horror movies and others that followed, and he is also well known for the blockbuster “Spider Man” movies. In “Drag Me” he returns to his first love…the frantic horror movie with frantic pacing, frantic camera-work and outlandish sights and sounds with loads of gory goop and bile to scare the heck out of you all of which is nicely off-set by the dark humor that is scattered throughout the story .. the chuckles provide some relief from the sudden gasps and screams induced by the scary scenes.
.
The attractive female lead is Alison Lohman, as Christine Brown who is a loan office at a bank. She is up for the post of assistant manager, and to impress her boss she takes a firm stand against and rejects an old woman’s plea for a third extension on her mortgage. To just call her an old woman seriously understates her repulsiveness. She is actually a dirty, hideous gypsy with discolored scraggly talons for fingernails and disgusting personal habits that include frequent horrible coughing and taking out and in appallingly dirty dentures. She is truly one of the most vile caricatures you’ll have the displeasure of seeing in a horror flick. As you might expect. Christine’s rejection of the gypsy’s plea is a bad, bad idea because this gypsy has an army of soul-stealing, soul-hungry demons at her disposal and for the ultimate in pay-back, the gypsy puts a horrible curse on Christen. For the first three days and nights she will be subjected to full, non-stop demonic torment, and after that, the Demonic Beast will come to claim her soul and drag her to hell. The frantic race is on for her to find a way of preventing this from happening and to seek redemption.

If you're looking for a gory, gruesome horror movie…this is not it. But if you’re in the mood for some heavy-duty frightful moments where things, quite unpleasant things, suddenly and unexpectedly jump out at you… . this is the movie for you. The movie plays like one of those walk-through haunted houses you visit during Halloween where monsters and other disgusting things jump out at you at every turn. Ultimately, "Drag Me to Hell" is just a classic, old fashion campfire horror story, and Sam Raimi happens to be one of the best scary storytellers of our time.

No comments:

Post a Comment