Sorry Josh but edited a bit of your post to include Spoiler tags as i have yet to see Evil Dead so :(

He also directed "The Gift" and "A Simple Plan" as well....

 

And, for some peculiar reason, he's actually doing a remake of Evil Dead, AND Evil Dead 4, so, er, figure that one out, because it's quite weird..... :wacko:

Weird :lol: I didn't even know there was an Evil Dead 3 let alone Evil Dead 4. :lol: Unless Evil Dead 4 is just a new film? :unsure:

 

This is getting rave reviews. :o

 

I'm seeing it on Tuesday, and I'm actually really excited LOL. I don't do well with horror movies (loved The Descent though), but this looks more like a comedy than a horror movie so I should be fine. Wooz.

It's very jumpy! (Like I've said, one of the most jumpiest film I've ever seen :lol: )

 

Sorry Josh but edited a bit of your post to include Spoiler tags as i have yet to see Evil Dead so :(

Sorry about that! :heehee:

 

Sorry Josh but edited a bit of your post to include Spoiler tags as i have yet to see Evil Dead so :(

 

sh!t, it's prob something I should've done.... I just assumed that everyone visiting this thread would've seen Evil Dead and been familiar with Raimi.....

^Lol, its no probs :P Im open to the occasional spoiler anyway, dunno about other people...

^Lol, its no probs :P Im open to the occasional spoiler anyway, dunno about other people...

 

Personally, when it's new films just coming out, I find spoilers unacceptable, and have given warnings to one or two people about it.... Older films which most people would have likely seen, it's not so bad.... I kinda thought Evil Dead would've been pretty safe ground to be honest..... :lol:

 

:lol: while i love old films/classics i dont really watch many of them... I watch the occasional "cult classics" but unless they are on TV or someone has lent it to me on DVD or they are rereleasing it on DVD i tend not to watch them :( Again, apart from the odd few... Evil Dead is one i have yet to see but also i want to see again/buy Suspiria which is an amazing Horror :wub: (which now that i got paid i might just do! :cheer:)

So I saw this tonight... I have to say I'm a bit baffled as to why it's had such a great critical reception? It felt an awful lot like The Unborn in places, and that was panned. It was like it couldn't decide what it wanted to be. There were very funny bits but they sat very uncomfortably alongside the 'serious' stuff, and then from the graveyard scene onwards it felt very much like some strange comic book interpretation, with the lightening and the pouring rain and all that. Good acting, some funny scenes, and an interesting enough storyline, but just not a great film.

 

6/10

My friend told me this was $h!t LOL. I'll judge on Tuesday. I dunno if he realized it wasn't supposed to be a 100% legit horror movie though. I'll just go in expecting some lawlz and jumps.

So I saw this tonight... I have to say I'm a bit baffled as to why it's had such a great critical reception? It felt an awful lot like The Unborn in places, and that was panned. It was like it couldn't decide what it wanted to be. There were very funny bits but they sat very uncomfortably alongside the 'serious' stuff, and then from the graveyard scene onwards it felt very much like some strange comic book interpretation, with the lightening and the pouring rain and all that. Good acting, some funny scenes, and an interesting enough storyline, but just not a great film.

 

6/10

 

It's pretty clear from me from that review, you have very little idea of Sam Raimi's directing style... There's always been a strange, exaggerated comic book element which goes straight back to Evil Dead and stuff like "Dark Man", same goes for the humour/shock elements which he often puts in the same sequences.... He manages this sort of thing far, FAR better than the talentless drongoes who made Tormented ever could... People who say that "Drag Me To Hell" is sh!t are either brain-infected by Torture Porn and the endless, sh!tty "Saw" sequels and remakes of better horror films, or have never seen a Sam Raimi horror film....

 

Raimi is a REAL film-maker, even when he's doing stuff like Spiderman, you can still see flourishes of his own individual style here and there... I really cant see at all where "The Unborn" comes in, that was portentuous, predictable cr@p which took itself way too seriously, whereas "Drag Me To Hell" is gloriously tongue-in-cheek, but with some real scares, jumps and unexpected humourous moments (I mean, killer hankies, who else but Raimi could take such a ridiculous idea and actually make you go with it...? :lol: ). Mrs Ganush is a great "monster", and the fight sequence in the car park is quite brilliantly staged; elsewhere the use of shadows and sounds to create mood and atmosphere almost goes back to Robert Wise's "The Haunting", the ending is quite a marvellous homage to the old classic "Night of the Demon" (in fact, I guess the whole film could be read as a love letter to Jaques Tournour's horror classic), Raimi knows his Horror, and knows how to stage and execute sudden shocks and jolts, which sadly all too many so-called "film-makers" who make Horror films these days simply dont....

 

This is like a ride on a ghost train, it makes you feel scared, hysterical, amused and giddy in a fair few places... This is the best "old skool" Horror film in recent years, imo, more of this please, and considerably less of the 'Saw' rip-off sh"t.... Almost brilliant....9/10

I don't need to be brain-dead or unaware of Sam Raimi's style to point out the big flaws in this film though. Are you telling me this film wasn't predictable?

That you genuinely didn't know that for all of her effort, Christine would obviously still be taken into hell at the end of the film? Because that much was blaringly obvious!

 

 

Yes some of the scenes were well-judged but that car park scene lasted about five minutes too long. It ended up losing shock factor merely because the frights were just repeating themselves as Mrs Ganush re-appeared at the car window for the eighth time.

 

I'm not saying it was a bad film, hence the above-average mark, but it certainly wasn't the film of the year and it would have to be a below-parr year for horror if this is considered the best we get in '09.

I don't need to be brain-dead or unaware of Sam Raimi's style to point out the big flaws in this film though. Are you telling me this film wasn't predictable?

That you genuinely didn't know that for all of her effort, Christine would obviously still be taken into hell at the end of the film? Because that much was blaringly obvious!

 

 

Yes some of the scenes were well-judged but that car park scene lasted about five minutes too long. It ended up losing shock factor merely because the frights were just repeating themselves as Mrs Ganush re-appeared at the car window for the eighth time.

 

I'm not saying it was a bad film, hence the above-average mark, but it certainly wasn't the film of the year and it would have to be a below-parr year for horror if this is considered the best we get in '09.

 

 

Actually, to be honest, I thought it was going to turn out to be her boyfriend that would get sent down.... I kinda thought that she took the wrong envelope and the bloke still had the button, so he ended up with it.... But, of course, at the end you suddenly remember "oh, sh!t, she didn't openly declare she was making a gift of it"....

 

 

And, er, please put in spoilers when you talk about film's endings mate.....

I'm not saying it was a bad film, hence the above-average mark, but it certainly wasn't the film of the year and it would have to be a below-parr year for horror if this is considered the best we get in '09.

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Well, considering the absolute sh!t that's passing for Horror at the moment, Drag Me To Hell does indeed seem like the best Horror of '09, and I for one am grateful that a mainstream film-maker with a bit of on original thought in his head can come up with something pretty decent..... So, I mean, what's better....? My Bloody Valentine...? Mirrors...? Or whichever other sodding remake is gonna be out next month.....?

 

Is Drag Me To Hell as good as something like Martyrs....? Well, no, because Martyrs is a Horror cut from an entirely different cloth, rather disturbing in tone and genuinely transgressive, whereas Drag Me to Hell is more old skool Hollywood horror as opposed to European art-house horror such as Martyrs, Frontiers or The Orphanage. Is it as good as some of the stuff that's been coming out of Japan or Korea in the past few yeas...? Again, not really, but DMtH isn't a film like 'Retribution', 'Reincarnation' or 'A Tale of Two Sisters', which are far more psychological.... I went along with certain expectations of what a Sam Raimi horror film should be about, and my expectations were pretty much fulfilled, they guy hasn't lost his touch despite not having made a horror film for ages....

 

I can almost certainly forgive Raimi one or two flaws because all in all DmTH is bloody entertaining in a way that about 90-odd percent of recent US horrors, which simply fail to meet the criteria...

I just saw this, and all I can say is LOL. I thought it was hilarious. I wasn't ever really scared (I think there's a difference from jumping and legitimately being scared). Drag Me To Hell obviously relies a lot on quick jumps and such, but I think that was a bit of the beauty of it. You knew they were coming, but they would just drag out longer and longer each time, with more and more ridiculous camera angles that it became funny. If you want a real scare, watch Audition. I've never been so disturbed watching a movie in my life.

 

But yes, this made me laugh extremely hard LOL. The seance scene in particular left me in stitches.

Of course she was going to get dragged to hell! It was in the title / trailer even, the very scene. It was utterly predictable. I even told my friend as she was shoving the button in the old woman's mouth that the button probably wasn't even in the envelope.

 

 

It wasn't amazing or anything, just a good bit of fun. If you want legitimate horror, watch L'Interieur or Audition. This is more black comedy if anything. I had fun at least LOL. The dialogue was hilarious, so purposely forced in some scenes.

 

I could have done without the Raimi's obsession with people vomiting things though haha. It got a bit gross after the first few times.

...i really like this movie..

i like its story..:)

Great flick. Raimi was made for horror, if you saw any of the evil dead making of's that he created to go with the DVD copies of the movies it makes it pretty blatant lol. He's immersed himself in this stuff since he was a kid.

Thought it very very silly. The entire cinema was laughing constantly. It was funnier than most comedies :lol: It was well directed, acted etc but it was just too ridiculous for me to take it serious. The talking goat really was REALLY taking the p*** :lol: I had high hopes that it would be the first proper horror film I had seen in years due to the good reviews, but I was sadly mistaken. Although I did enjoy it. It was very entertaining.