Anticipate Drag Me To Hell. Seriously.

If you have any fondness for old school Sam Raimi, SEE THIS MOVIE

You know who's getting dragged to hell? Whoever gave this movie a PG-13. Apparently you can have whatever you want fly in and out of people's mouths (limbs, animals, bodily fluids, in as copious an amount as you desire) as long as it's not genital-related.

Really wanna see this as I love the old school Raimi horror. I might wait for DVD though, seeing horror films in the theater is the worst. I nearly fall out of my seat and embarrass myself at all that dead-quite-to-LOUD-BOO-JUMP-SCARE shit.

it's possible the theater had the sound jacked up to eleven but this was non-stop LOUD-BOO-JUMP-SCARE

This is going to fucking rule.

yeah the trailer really grabbed me, before i even realized who directed it, really looking forward to it.

When i saw the trailer it was like "from the director of spiderman" and the gears in my head had to do some work

i have to see this! sam raimi is back! with hell! and the mortgage crisis! yeah!

seeing it tomorrow!

trailer not enticing me... crzy fang ppl looked cool but the premise of "you are cursed because you did not refi my house" was um uh

whiney have you not seen the evil dead

If it's any encouragement to see it, the trailer totally underwhelmed me as well. And the gypsy does come off like a total dick - she doesn't want to move to assisted living or "burden" her relatives so it's "ignore my debts or burn in hell." But if you can forgive the message "gypsies are some entitled motherfuckers" SEE IT.

Curious if Eugene Hutz will protest now that I think about it

I'll go see anything Raimi does (even that baseball movie), but I was surprised at how "Thinner" the trailer looked.
The reviews, though - like, a bunch of crazy 4 star raves - are interesting. Apparently the lead role was initially supposed to be played by Juno, but she dropped out (which is okay by me). I'm anticipate-y.

ha, "Thinner" was the comparison point that leapt up for me, too

so into this but:

And the gypsy does come off like a total dick - she doesn't want to move to assisted living or "burden" her relatives so it's "ignore my debts or burn in hell."

yah even from the previews this seems a little much like really? your going to damn some1 for all eternity because they wouldnt forgive u not paying them back the money they lent u? then i had this image of the old witch doing this all the time on some shit like @ the grocery store: "i'm sorry miss its only the medium sized frozen pizzas that are 2 for 1 this week, the large size is still regular price" "just as u have denied savings on this delicious meat lovers pizza i will deny u salvation in the afterlife!"

i am glad to hear that this is good, because i am a huge (old school stuff) raimi fan and i could not tell if this would be great or awful

i hope it's funny. the trailer makes it seem like it's going for that j-horror thing but that's probably just trailer bullshit.

But if you can forgive the message "gypsies are some entitled motherfuckers"

Not sure I can. That's some below the belt shit right there.

I want Lamp to direct a sequel to this that follows the gypsy around as she curses everyone who inconveniences her.

Persuade Me to Heck

totally might see it again this weekend

I want Lamp to direct a sequel to this that follows the gypsy around as she curses everyone who inconveniences her.

film to be titled "every old person ever"

aka drag grandpa to the mall

my confidence in this movie was seriously shaken when i looked at the cast list and saw the words "Justin Long as Professor Clay Dalton"

Justin Long is actually a professor irl.

confidence irl shaken

sorry i was lying :(

be confident again irl

confident irl once more, confidence in jim shaken

Apparently the lead role was initially supposed to be played by Juno, but she dropped out.

Thank God. Maybe it's just been the roles I've seen her in, but least likable actress ever.

And lol at Professor Justin Long.

When i saw the trailer it was like "from the director of spiderman" and the gears in my head had to do some work

― steve iirckel (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, May 26, 2009 11:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

whiney have you not seen the evil dead

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, May 27, 2009 1:32 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the point of my post was that I know Raimi FOREMOST as the director of The Evil Dead, and when I heard "from the director of Spiderman" I had to work backwards to get excited, as opposed to if they just said "from the director of Evil Dead"

The ads I've seen mention both Spiderman and Evil Dead.

Oddly no mention of For Love of the Game.

ok phew

xp to whiney

How did I not know about this? I love Sam Raimi so much. May have to see it this weekend now. Excited!

From Director Sam Raimi, who made you love baseball again

Yep, I can confirm this was a lot of fun.

TOTALLY psyched for this, moreso, even, than I am for Up (which is saying a lot).

this movie was *awesome*

great old-fashioned horror thrill ride in an old universal movie/EC comics style. kind of reminded me of what lies beneath in that way too... super fun throwback w/o being too kitschy about it

Seeing tomorrow night - I think. Can't wait.

it is kinda racist

anyway the gypsy lady isn't ENTITLED, she doesn't want to lose her house, but the real reason she curses her is for reducing her to begging and shaming her in front of everyone. she's not like a ny times writer type.

kind of reminded me of what lies beneath in that way too...

good to know it's reminiscent of one of the worst movies ever made

more troubling than the racism tbh

sorry dude

I don't know what's wrong with me, I'm totally on the rag today

haha I am really tempted to change the thread title to "'Go see this awesome racist movie!': The 'Drag Me To Hell' Thread"

(I won't)

it could be like pt2 of the iron man thread

"Go see this awesome racist movie!: The Crank 2 thread"

anyway the gypsy lady isn't ENTITLED, she doesn't want to lose her house, but the real reason she curses her is for reducing her to begging and shaming her in front of everyone. she's not like a ny times writer type.

But she didn't reduce her to begging! Lohman said she couldn't help (which as far as the gypsy lady knew was true) and mentioned that the woman might want to consider assisted living or contacting relatives, both of which were apparently more unpleasant to the woman than getting on her knees.

also *mini-spoiler!* she doesn't actually curse lohman until after their big brawl in the parking lot - at first she just thinks her treatment gives her cause to assault the woman in her car. we can debate whether believing you should get to keep your house whether or not you make any effort to pay your mortgage is entitlement, but the whole movie hinges on the presumption that Gypsies Be Crazy.

oh i agree

they also do make it clear that she had been paying regularly until she got sick

yeah, but they also show her stealing candy and having umpteen relatives staying at her pad. she coulda passed the hat.

haha. i just think it's weird to describe a stereotypical horror comic gypsy crone as "entitled"!

which i realize was for funny. but she is also kinda the bad guy in the movie, thus not very reasonable.

i curse u 2 helllllll

h8 gypsies

r they 2 curse 4 u????

going 2 see this 2nite -|> excited

I put a curse on my poor health b/c it is preventing me from seeing this tonight.

This movie is all about gross stuff being spooged into a woman's mouth.

And the threat of it getting into David Paymer's

I dug this movie - not super-great, but a solid raimi pic, and I LOVE the trend (is it a trend? I feel like several recent horror movies have done it) of putting the movie title in sudden pop-on relief at the end of the movie

although the guy behind me saying "epic fail" out loud every time somebody got served or whatever was several new levels of pathetic

pretty amazing to me that in the 17 years since AoD no one has really been able to successfully mimic Raimi's style - and that he can slip back into it without much difficulty.

although the guy behind me saying "epic fail" out loud every time somebody got served or whatever was several new levels of pathetic

― worm? lol (J0hn D.), Saturday, May 30, 2009 2:09 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ugh!!

sitting behind me was this middle-aged couple that kept talking and kicked the seat every time there was a scare but they were having such a good time it just added to the movie for me. they couldn't get over it.

This movie is all about gross stuff being spooged into a woman's mouth.

― congratulations (n/a), Saturday, May 30, 2009 2:03 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i was literally going "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" and covering my eyes during most of these scenes

the maggots were particularly distasteful.

my friends and i were yukking it up much of time, as was a good proportion of the audience. i mean, that's the raimi style (or was until spider-man movies) -- the violence is played in such a way that it can be both taken seriously and laughed at/with. but obviously some woman in the audience felt differently and yelled out "can you people stop laughing?! i'm trying to take this movie seriously!"

turned on the TV while cleaning the next day and maury povich was on, showing the trailer for DRAG ME TO HELL and then saying that the film "provided an occasion" to discuss whether demons really can haunt people etc.

so what i'm getting is that this movie is pretty cool, but its audience is not.

I LOVE the trend (is it a trend? I feel like several recent horror movies have done it) of putting the movie title in sudden pop-on relief at the end of the movie

this is my favorite thing in any movie, maybe i should start a thread about movies that do this

did THERE WILL BE BLOOD do this? i feel like maybe it did.

THE LION KING did it

yeah it totally did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B35rYEkYgvs

xp

although the guy behind me saying "epic fail" out loud every time somebody got served or whatever was several new levels of pathetic

awesome.

turned on the TV while cleaning the next day and maury povich was on, showing the trailer for DRAG ME TO HELL and then saying that the film "provided an occasion" to discuss whether demons really can haunt people etc.

― amateurist, Tuesday, June 2, 2009 9:17 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i meant to say "lol" after that

I LOVE the trend (is it a trend? I feel like several recent horror movies have done it) of putting the movie title in sudden pop-on relief at the end of the movie

this is my favorite thing in any movie, maybe i should start a thread about movies that do this

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Tuesday, June 2, 2009 9:24 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is a sergio leone thing right?

although the guy behind me saying "epic fail" out loud every time somebody got served or whatever was several new levels of pathetic

The couple who sat in front of us brought their 5 - 7 year old child with them, and the child spent much of the movie audibly sobbing, and that was still better than the epic fail guy. For me anyway. Probably not so much for the child.

I covered my eyes a lot for the puking, and once was so startled I threw my purse about two feet into the air, and I am going to go see it again this weekend because now that I know when all of the scares are coming, I can relax and appreciate more of the Raimi-ness of it all (and hopefully there will be no small children in the audience, since that kind of bummed me out).

To the credit of these award winning parents, they took the child out of the theater for the opening scene in which an actual five to seven year old child is dragged to hell.

I LOVE the trend (is it a trend? I feel like several recent horror movies have done it) of putting the movie title in sudden pop-on relief at the end of the movie

this is my favorite thing in any movie, maybe i should start a thread about movies that do this

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Tuesday, June 2, 2009 9:24 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

oh shit i initiated this same conversation with my friend directly after seeing the film...and there will be blood was the first thing i came up with

film needs a certain gravitas, kitschy or otherwise, to pull this off

dope movie fwiw, really intelligently done, flippant modern discourse meets ancient terror, played straight enough to make it work, graveyard scene probably the most awesomely stylised thing i've seen in ages

this was the best

also I'm no American but PG-13 sounds totally fair to me

this sucked

Loved this. Best Raimi film since Evil Dead II (though I have a fondness for A Simple Plan).

Totally outrageous. I laughed a lot, but was never insulted a la Army of Darkness or Crimewave.

Will be seeing this again and again. It's a new classic in the cannon of an often-great director. Same cinematographer as Evil Dead II and foley guy I think. The sound effects and the way the demons act really cemented that it's the same universe as Evil Dead. So cool.

It ruled, for sure. Ending packed a punch. Also thanks to Raimi for graveyard scene w/ rain-soaked black t-shirt hotness.

Terrible. The goat (pre-speaking) was basically the only bit of entertainment.

Also completely creeped out by how young the lead actress looked.

She is 30 years old.

wtf milo

So Milo likes goats better than hot young women. So what?

you can tell who's "getting older" by how creeped out they get looking at perfectly legal young booty

can't wait to see this!!

To be fair *SPOILER FOR A 2003 NICOLAS CAGE MOVIE WARNING SPOILER*, Alison Lohman played an of-age woman passing for a 14-year-old in Matchstick Men six years ago, so it's not like Milo is the first to think she looks young for her age. Though the idea of no "entertainment" in Drag Me To Hell is wtf enough. Go rent a Busby Berkeley musical then.

milo'z film opinionz...i have noticed them before. they are differently-informed.

There were no scares, nothing funny (except for the goat), the plotting was tedious and obvious.

To be fair *SPOILER FOR A 2003 NICOLAS CAGE MOVIE WARNING SPOILER*, Alison Lohman played an of-age woman passing for a 14-year-old in Matchstick Men six years ago, so it's not like Milo is the first to think she looks young for her age. Though the idea of no "entertainment" in Drag Me To Hell is wtf enough. Go rent a Busby Berkeley musical then.

― da croupier, Friday, June 5, 2009 12:15 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

QFT

she looked her age in this movie. i just don't get the creeped-out feeling.

Watching this was like eating toast; very unremarkable

delicious and nourishing—great start to the day

this group of like high school age kids sat behind us and kept trying to say clever shit that wasn't nearly as funny as what was actually happening in the movie, but i thought they still liked it until the end they were all like "stupidest worst movie evar!" wtf?? they didn't get that it was supposed to be funny? i don't know how they could've thought the fucking goat was supposed to be serious.

kids aren't very smart

adult goats are fairly smart though i guess

Saw this today. Audience laughed right along with it - was disturbed that there were a lot of 5 year olds or younger with their parents. Most of whom spent the whole movie covering their eyes, or being shielded by their parents. Poor kids.

I watched Evil Dead 2 last weekend in anticipation, I'm glad I did. Same spirit, just less 'gore'. Loved that they used the eyeball in the mouth gag, the laughing room during the seance...it was such good fun. Lohman's "I'm gonna get some" line in the car made me pine for Bruce a little. Overall it felt like a Stephen King short story, or like those old 'monkey paw' stories from the old days. Can't wait for the DVD commentary. Every time a scare finished all I could hear was Bruce Campbell saying "Well I'm glad THAT'S over".

And man those scares worked. I think I jumped 5 times.

according to imdb bruce was too busy on Burn Notice to take a role on this. HIS LOSS.

huh, i was wondering about that

I understand, but I still don't like it.

Then again, would I rather have Sam squirt fake blood up my nose and dump goop all over me every 10 minutes...or drink mojitos in Miami and be allowed to improvise my lines?

this was really fun. I was into it. thought it started and ended really strong but I got a bit bored in the middle. at that point, the creepy sounds/creepy shadows stuff started getting a little played out for me.

this group of like high school age kids sat behind us and kept trying to say clever shit that wasn't nearly as funny as what was actually happening in the movie, but i thought they still liked it until the end they were all like "stupidest worst movie evar!" wtf??

basically, exactly the same thing happened to me. but as I was walking out, I realized that these dumbos weren't hs kids but were actually just really dumb 30 yr olds lozars.

there were also these teamster guys that sat next to me that were talking a lot but I didn't really mind bc they seemed pretty into the movie. only thing was that they didn't sit right near each other (too gay?), so they talked kind of loud too.

I guess this kind of stuff is to be expected for horror movies.

Had a really fun time with this today (midday in an empty theater so it was just me and a buddy - the best setting!). This thread is very otm, so fun, Raimi using all his old tricks again and effectively, really funny. Few/moderately used cheap jump cut scares and no super excessive serious gore. What I liked a lot was how there was so little bullshit compared to most modern horror movies with the boring slow expository scenes, I thought this moved at a pretty good clip most of the way through with lots of quick little action bits. Opening car scene is classic. Loved the title card use/final ending, too. Left with so many smiles on my face!

Saw it a second time, still loved it. Pretty full late night crowd at Court Street in Brooklyn, never heard more variations of "oh, hell no" during a movie.

Really kind of hilarious how this is critically hailed and underplaying at the box office, when twenty years or more ago it would undoubtedly be the exact opposite

what's not hilarious is how every other generic shitty horror movie these days makes hundreds of millions of dollars and the one really good one gets slept on :(

Yes this stood up to a second viewing really really well. I will eventually lose count, like I have with the first two Evil Deads. Classic of the genre. Thank you Sam Raimi!

Totally agree about the second viewing, especially because there were no kids in the second theater, and I saw it with two people who had not seen it yet and so thoroughly enjoyed all of the yelling and jumping they did. Heh.

what's not hilarious is how every other generic shitty horror movie these days makes hundreds of millions of dollars and the one really good one gets slept on :(

That is extremely OTM.

man, it's a bummer to hear that it hasn't been doing too well. I haven't been following that at all.

Saw this last night. Liked, but did not love. The "boo, shocka!" scened & "ew gross" stuff was def well done & I lurrrved the old-school Raimi Evil Dead-style slapstick/splatter scenes: fight in car, goat seance, grave dig. Story & characters were a little meh. A nice little movie & a good edition to his catalog. (SPOILER) After she killed her kitten, I was glad to see her get dragged to hell in the end.

If there were drive-ins in America, this movie would be smashing right now.

We all know it will kill on video. And maybe there will be some extra fluid and bugs on the dvd?

Green goo from the mouth in the wake scene was the ultimate eeeewwwwwwwwwWWWWWW, and it just kept on coming.

That bit was *completely* ripped off from Braindead, perhaps the only moment I was actually dissatisfied by

N.B. 'Dead Alive' if you're American

man, it's a bummer to hear that it hasn't been doing too well.

It's not a bomb, but it's doing average-at-best PG-13 horror numbers, and probably won't do as well as The Haunting In Connecticut. But the film has an 83 on Metacritic and an 8.0 on IMDb (most of these movies hover around 50 in both), which bodes well enough for its DVD-and-Beyond life that I doubt anyone regrets making it.

i certainly don't!

It's not a bomb, but it's doing average-at-best PG-13 horror numbers, and probably won't do as well as The Haunting In Connecticut. But the film has an 83 on Metacritic and an 8.0 on IMDb (most of these movies hover around 50 in both), which bodes well enough for its DVD-and-Beyond life that I doubt anyone regrets making it.

ah, cool. I just want raimi to make more horror flicks!

Yes, Drag Me to Hell 2 or Evil Dead 4. Whatever, just keep it coming. I need another Spider-Man like I need yesterdays soggy Cheerios.

Drag Them To Hell plz

How rare is it to get a movie that's fun, funny and scary all at the same time? What a blast.

"A Simple Plan" basically flopped too, didn't it? Raimi's become, like, the genre Soderbergh.

Going to see this tonight! Stoked!

just checked box office mojo and it looks like Drag Me To Hell (at $35 million but probably still in theaters for another month) is set to be the biggest grossing Raimi film to not feature the words "Spider-Man" in the title. Though the $30 million+ Darkman made was in 1990 dollars.

Though it was relatively humorless I liked The Gift too, pretty underlooked (Katie Holmes' appearance as mentioned in Harold and Kumar aside). Even Keanu Reeves was pretty well cast for that one!

Keanu's best role since River's Edge. And Katie Holmes' most revealing work!

ya whaddya mean "aside"!

I was amused/bemused to see that the film had moved to the art theater across the street from UCI.

Though it was relatively humorless I liked The Gift too, pretty underlooked (Katie Holmes' appearance as mentioned in Harold and Kumar aside). Even Keanu Reeves was pretty well cast for that one!

Yeah, I did as well.

great movie.
always nice to see the old school might-be-a-cult-movie again.
i'm not sure if it's as strong as Evil Dead is (surely not as funny), but still, it got the power.

i think it gets good reviews cause at least some of the critics adored Evil Dead as teenagers.
also,it has good pace,nice twists,good camera work, it doesnt take itself seriously and most importandly - it's not youre regular,banal,uninspiring hollywood horror flick.

lessons learned from the movie:
capitalism is bad,western culture is rotten,aliented and too skeptical and you better not deal with gypsies.
oh, and the solution for the current aconmy crisis is to loan more money, not to reduce it.
(my mom is from Hungary - i'm insulted...)

The use of sound was awesome and pretty much masterful in this.

It was maybe the loudest movie I've ever seen.

here kitty kitty

Just made a bunch of friends in my hometown check it out with me and I was bummed to discover the theater was playing it at a considerably lower volume than the ones in NYC. Without those big booms the tension really does drop (the relative calm of a small central pennsylvania crowd didn't help either), and I wound up feeling apologetic after. Had I known how muted it would be, I would have suggested waiting until DVD and playing it LOUD.

it's possible the theater had the sound jacked up to eleven but this was non-stop LOUD-BOO-JUMP-SCARE

― da croupier, Wednesday, May 27, 2009 2:32 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark

yes

handy keeping an anvil on a rope-and-pulley system.

the cursed lady was a bit crazy too

"haha I beat you bitch!"

"and get ur filthy pig knuckle off my desk!"

wtf

she was cursed, admittedly

Finally watched this the other night and liked it a lot. 1/2 of the ppl I was watching with HATED it which I just couldn't understand. I mean sure it was sort of racist and def not perfect but it had enough old school Raimi in it to win me over. I certainly didn't really see anything that made it really unlikeable. idgi.

from imdb: When Clay Dalton mentions traveling to his parents' cabin that has trees and is private, this is a direct reference to the cabin used in The Evil Dead (1981) and Evil Dead II (1987).

i know i'm probably in the minority here, but if the evil dead remake is inevitable, i would totally be down with Justin Long starring in it.

welp, nevermind. according to wikipedia raimi gave up on that plan due to fan furor, now evil dead IV is somewhere off in the future.

bruce campbell's excuse basically made sense - raimi can basically sit on Evil Dead 4 for his entire career, or until huge $300 million blockbusters stop falling into his lap. he could wait another 10 or 20 years before picking it up again, there's no particular rush for him.

it's kind of a shame this movie didn't do super great, or we'd have a chance of seeing him direct something that wasn't Spider-Man again anytime soon, but at least we got this!

(i do admit though, as much I enjoyed this movie I don't get what was up with all the crazy racist gypsy stuff, unless it was some kind of particular throwback to a certain film)

I thought this was okay, but I was kinda disappointed how easy it was to foresee the final twist in the story. Why didn't she check what's in the letter?

In the envelope, I mean.

I liked this a lot! The people sitting in front of me got up and left in a hurry, they seemed PISSED about the ending. What did they expect!

Seeing "Paranormal Activity" with a big crowd made me wish there was a bigger crowd than when I saw this with, like, 10 people in the theater. We were all still jumping, though!

I watched this last night, it was a super fun Halloween movie.

I'm so much more comfortable with Raimi doing Spider-Man 4 than World Of Warcraft anything.

drag a nigga to hell owned

spoiler: she gets dragged to hell

from imdb: When Clay Dalton mentions traveling to his parents' cabin that has trees and is private, this is a direct reference to the cabin used in The Evil Dead (1981) and Evil Dead II (1987).

i know i'm probably in the minority here, but if the evil dead remake is inevitable, i would totally be down with Justin Long starring in it.

― da croupier, Sunday, November 1, 2009 11:12 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i dont get the cabin thing... i mean i dont remember the dialogue, was it specific enough to be that cabin? i mean was there a ref to dialogue in evil dead or something?

I don't think there was a specific reference to dialogue from ED but it's been a while since I watched it. There didn't need to be though cause I made note of the cabin mention even without picking up any direct reference. I figured it had to have been a nod of some sort.

A while since ED since I just watched this 2 days ago.

the REAL reference is the ED tree/woods screaming during the seance, that was like a direct sound rip

i mean, maybe they take place in the same universe or whatever, but it's all a joke in good fun

Finally saw this yesterday. Okay, I'll admit: I have never seen Evil Dead. Probably should now, shouldn't I? Loved this, not like "woha" loving this but it was very entertaining. Thought it was very funny. Although at one point I really wanted to scream out: STOP IT WITH THE VOMIT TRICK ALREADY. Not that it was overplayed but at times so yucky. Justin Long I dislike but somehow he fit in this movie. A bit on the bland side.

Also, GREAT ending.

Still probably the most fun I've had in the cinema this year. Needs to be LOUD.

Also, when I skimmed a few posts up and saw "ED", I thought people were talking about this

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2150/2039428971_99d112d180.jpg?v=0

Yeah Nath - if you enjoyed DmtH then you should defintely see all the ED movies but particularly the first and the third.

Also, GREAT ending.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, November 4, 2009 9:11 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

teh ending is so dope

I know!

it really made me want to pump my fist and go "YESSSSSSS"

Hahahaha. Totally.

I sort of wish you did do that tbh.

I like that Mac ended up traumatized for life.

do you think it's like "canon" with the mac ads?

EVIL DANCE!

What if PC is Satan?

Y'know, it's so fucking funny, y'know. I was glad my husband said:"So I ain't gonna watch it anyway, tell me how it ended." YAY, I could tell!

The grave scene was also insanely good.

Ah fuck it, the more I talk/think about it, the more I like it. Anyone who didn't like it: don't you fucking like FUN or what? (j/k)

Yeah, you really need to see the Evil Dead movies.

x-post That's basically what I said to the two ppl I watched with who hated it.

I have am awesome ED boxset that has really great artwork and a cool book with it. Unfortunately it's somewhere buried in a box in a friends apartment in Scotland. ;_;

Chances I will ever see it again = slim to none. ;_;

When the dude got blood on him, I nearly pissed laughing. I like how the people seemed... bland. Y'know, like it could be anyone. Does that make sense?

"Did I get blood in my mouth?"

it was a great ending!

Definitely.

http://fourfour.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b8c369e20120a5e3ea18970b-800wi
http://fourfour.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b8c369e20120a5e3fb2e970b-800wi

:D

Was/is it just me but it seems like she's doing the spraying herself, y'know. LIke a big fuck you to her boss for not giving the job.

That goat was AWESOME.

hahaha nice gifs

Just watched the Unrated Directors Cut DVD. It's basically indistinguishable from the PG-13 version, and the same length. Still, nothing was wrong with the theatrical cut. It's still an excellent film.

Also, the bonus features are few, but quality. Essentially a half hour or so of really interesting "making of" shorts with a pleasant amount of insider technical info.

Only downside is that smarmy boyfriend actor is the host/narrator and if you hate him in the movie, you'll hate him three times more after seeing him play himself.

Ok someone did the side by side comparison of PG13 vs Unrated for us. In each case, the scene is only a few frames longer, and there's a bit more blood.

http://movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=5392849

Wow, people are overrating this to all fuckery.

i'm chuckling just looking at the comparison shots. i really liked how they did the cat death in the original, though, it looks like maybe that wasn't as funny in the director's cut

We made a great drinking game out of it. If you drink every time someone gets something in their mouth, it's like 13+ times.

And how can someone overrate the best horror movie in years?

Well... I don't think it is. Not by a long chalk, really. It is fun though. I suppose it would work best as a drinking game movie, surrounded by your friends all drunk and shouting at the screen.

Haven't seen this yet, still want to, couldn't get anyone interested when it was in cinemas, and was surprised at the dismissive reaction I got. I suppose it's to do with Spider Man movies, but I thought those were pretty good for a mainstream hit superhero franchise, and, fuck, Sam is still the guy who made Evil Dead.

I thought this was okay, but definitely not the "best horror movie in years". Basically it was just a competently made variation of an old school horror story with some added new school horror gross-out bits. Thematically or plot-wise it didn't have anything new or innovative, and while it was technically well made, there was nothing in it we haven't already seen in previous Raimi movies. Also, it had only a couple of scenes that were genuinely creepy or scary (the gypsy woman's visit to the office and the dinner with the boyfriend's parents). Everything else pretty much followed the tried and tested patterns of horror movies, so it didn't really scare me at all. Plus, like I said above, the final twist was quite easy to foresee, which kinda diminished the shock effect it was supposed to have.

drag a nigga to heck.

The goat!

man i fuckin loved this. i may have actually pumped my fist and gone "YESSSSSSS"

haha me too

My friend was eating through the whole thing...have no idea how you can eat & watch those grossout scenes at the same time but apparently she's better at compartmentalizing than I am.

Completely agree with Tuomas on this one.

"choke on it, bitch!" may be my favorite movie moment of '09. (the ending of crank 2 may trump, however.)

i understand people lamenting that it's not as good as evil dead -- but i mean, c'mon -- but people expecting it to be all NEXT LEVEL IN TERROR are gonna invariably be disappointed. (then again my fave horror movies this decade have more or less all been gross-out comedies at heart, so grain of salt.)

people don't want to believe horror movies are wildly different

i got in a screaming match with my friend because i was defending the whole Saw/Hostel thing and he was like "That's not scary. Rosemary's Baby, that's a horror movie." It's really comparing Airplane with Annie Hall

no one ever EVER believes me about hostel

^seriously misunderstood movie. sequel's even better imo.

yeah, both hostels are great, first one feels like one of those genre paradigm shifting flicks, like night of the living dead, texas chainsaw massacre, nightmare on elm st, blair witch project etc

ya i was impressed that the sequel seemed like a conscious effort to be better than the first rather than a knock-off

haha. i've been defending Hostel to friends since it came out. i'm glad i'm not alone in thinking it's misunderstood. still haven't seen the second one though.

Drag Me to Hell was a lot of fun. i thoroughly enjoyed it. i wish they would've at least tried to be clever with the button/coin switch. it woulda been nice for that whole shit storm at the end to have been an actual surprise.

ya but the fact that you see it coming before she does is kind of awesome too

I thought I'd hate "Hostel," but didn't, and the second one was so OTT silly/perverse I sort of loved it. I mean, he's so clearly having a twisted laugh (unlike, say, stuff like "Wolf Creek" or whatever).

I'd be curious if the few folks here that didn't really like "Drag Me to Hell" saw it in a theater or at home. Because I can't imagine it being half as effective in a living room.

Oh, x-posting still, there's no way I can defend the "Saw" movies, because they're made/look/acted like shit. Booby trap horror was done better in "Cube," and even that was pretty shoddy/shitty.

i like Cabin Fever and a lot of gorey new school horror, but Hostel just seemed kinda lame and almost boring to me.

It was great because it was so lame and boring. Like, here we go. The end.

"Cabin Fever" was much better on paper. And neither is as good as Roth's "Thanksgiving" short.

Raimi gave me what I wanted. Thank you Sam Raimi. Took you long enough!

Somehow I missed this when it was in the theaters, but it was the perfect Monday night/stay-at-home movie.

I'd be curious if the few folks here that didn't really like "Drag Me to Hell" saw it in a theater or at home. Because I can't imagine it being half as effective in a living room.

Watched on laptop (but through relatively high-end speakers) and not only did I jump in places but legitimately coughed beer during the seance/goat scene.

This was a nice movie, but the end twist was sooo predictable. When she drops that envelope, you know what's going to happen later on.

Oh, looks like I made the same comment 2 years ago.

In my opinion predictability, or inescapability, is sort of the point.

Inescapability of the curse and predictibality of the plot are not the same thing! The writers could have come up with some less obvious-to-the-viewers way of making sure the main character never got rid of the curse, so the twist in the end would've been a true surprise, but it still would've meant she couldn't really escape her fate.

Somebody said upthread the pleasure for the audience is in knowing she's doomed, same sort of idea as Hitchcock saying there's no suspense unless the audience knows more than character. The movie wasn't about suspense so I didn't feel the need for anything as tawdry as a twist at the end.

didn't love the film, but wasn't at all bothered by the transparency of the plot mechanics.

kept expecting there to be some "twist" around the girl's past (she used to be fat, live on a farm, have a thick southern accent - all of which are alluded to but for apparently no particular reason?)

Just there to make you feel more sympathy for her.

Finally saw this tonight. Loved it. You get the idea that this will be a classic Raimi/EC Comics jaunt just from the opening titles alone.

This and ED2 rely SO MUCH upon proper sound design.

saw this again recetnly. held up. good times.

I loved this when I saw it but the 3 other people I watched it with HATED it. I felt like we'd watched different movies.

oh man I should watch this again

So great.

DESTROY the optional DVD cut that adds horrible digital gore, though.

I dunno, I think maybe DRAG ME TO HELL is probably the greatest horror movie of the last couple decades?

i revisited it a few months ago and yes it’s the best

love a horror movie where you gradually realize the protagonist is the antagonist

Right, in a movie where you spend most of the time thinking the demons of Hell are the antagonists.

Love it, but I've always found the ending mean-spirited, like most horrors of the 2000s. I've always read some misogynistic glee into it - I prefer the ambiguous punishments meted on Ash at the end of the Dead movies.

I want true horror to be mean-spirited I guess, else where's the horror?

I also love the inversion of Casting the Runes

unfortunately, gotta say, the thing is that the main character pretty much deserves everything that happens to her, so hard for me to read this film as particularly mean-spirited

"Life's not fair" is a big part of horror's appeal.

the second time she does a nakedly cynical rung-climbing thing instead of the actual right thing you're like "jesus christ you should be cursed forever"

It just occurred to me how rare it is to see a movie title posed as a request to which the film itself responds with a hearty 'can do!'

love a horror movie where you gradually realize the protagonist is the antagonist

yesss

Yeah, conversely I probably wouldn't think about this film that much if it wasn't for the surprising sad trombone ending!

How was the rewatch? I remember this being entertaining but never particularly scary, like Army of Darkness

i do admit to loling at Justin Long crying on the train tracks

I loved this movie on my first and only watch.

Yeah, I saw this in the cinema at the time and it's stayed with me quite a bit, definitely superior horror

same, it's probably the last horror movie I've watched at a cinema. Too many jokes in it obv!

Very surprised to discover Sam Raimi is still only 64.

how long has he been 64

I remember the first time I saw him being interviewed in the late 80’s and was floored by how youthful he looked

Has he ever talked about giving a financial contribution to Bush 43 in 2004? I wonder if he’s a Trumper