Then again, I'm not scared by anything really.
Unless you're scared by old women and supernatural mumbo jumbo, unless you're a superstitious person, "Drag Me to Hell" probably won't be giving you any nightmares. Hopefully audiences will be expecting something along the lines of "Evil Dead" mixed with its sequels when they go in, or they could leave disappointed. Sam Raimi, for whom the childhood experience of reading those pulp tales served as an inspiration for his now-legendary "Evil Dead" movies, and hence gave him his career, has made his most fun and entertaining film since "Army of Darkness", and probably his best since then as well (although I do need to see "A Simple Plan" again) in "Drag Me to Hell", which feels like it could be an adaptation of one of those horror tales. This might partially be down to the advertising campaign, which could lead audiences to believing this is purely serious horror, when in fact it is pulp silliness in the vein of the old EC comics, and fully aware of it. Little could the poor girl have anticipated that a time would come when the penalty for approving the old gypsy woman's home loan application would be her whole bank being dragged down to hell."Drag Me to Hell" might be the victim of unfair expectations, or just plain incorrect assumptions. The other nights, he simply drops her off in front of her Arts & Crafts house (pre-crash value circa $2 million) and says, "You sure you'll be all right?" She always is, for some reason.Īs Boss Gettys says of Citizen Kane, "He's going to need more than one lesson, and he's going to get more than one lesson." Christine learns these lessons: (a) Never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails (2) Never dig a grave during the thunderstorm of the century (3) If she calls Clay Dalton when she needs him, that will be too late. Things get so bad Clay Dalton sleeps over one night. Her body and soul are put through the wringer. Shock Reveals nevertheless occur with increasing frequency and ferocity.Ĭhristine is badgered, beaten and hexed. Ganush, especially after she dies and gains a powerful ally. He struggles with Christine and Clay Dalton to appease Mrs. I didn't find any occurrence of "Rham Jas," except those citing this movie, in the first 1,000 Google hits, which I considered to be due diligence.įor a Pasadena soothsayer who accepts American Express, Rham Jas is remarkably knowledgeable about the Rules of Hell, especially as they pertain to buttons and kittens. If you think "Rham Jas" is supposed to be an elbow nudge for the famous Ram Das, you may be on to something. Ganush stalks and threatens her, Christine psyches out at work and with dinner with Clay Dalton's parents, and Clay Dalton recruits an Indian-American mystic named Rham Jas ( Dileep Rao) to fight on her side. Ganush ( Lorna Raver), rips a button off Christine's coat, and that leads to no end of bad things, including the very real possibility that (spoiler) Christine will find herself Dragged to Hell. An old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails asks her for a third extension on her home loan, and if there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails. Stanley Kubrick would have needed only a day with her on " The Shining," instead of the weeks he spent with Shelley Duvall. It is essential that the heroine (for horror victims are conventionally women) be a good screamer, and man, can that Alison Lohman scream. This is as obligatory as the fact that blades always make a snicker-snack noise even when they are not scraping enough something. But in horror films they always come with discordant chords and loud bangs. Shock Reveals should logically be silent, unless the Revealed is screaming.
Shock Reveals are of course the moments when a terrifying image explodes from the scene, scaring the split pea soup out of the heroine. Cute kitties of course are useful in the It's Only a Cat! false alarms, and Raimi deserves praise for not using this kitten in that way.
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The whole movie is nudges, especially scenes involving a cute kitten and Shock Reveals. That's the kind of elbow nudge Raimi likes to provide, especially since the character really requires no surname. If "Clay Dalton" rings a bell, those are surely two of the most common names in movies there have been 761 Clays and 413 Daltons.
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