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Drag Me to Hell
Review Written by: Alex Sandell
Horror fans have been waiting for Sam Raimi to make this
film as far back as Evil
Dead 2. While it isn't quite the return to form many of us
hoped for, it gets enough right to be worth the wait. It
also reminds us how well Sam Raimi can work this sort of
material.
Drag Me to Hell's PG-13 rating holds the director
back from the all-out, blood-spraying gonzo insanity he reached with Evil Dead 2, but he
still gets away with a surprising amount of gross-out gags. There's
even a reimagining of the classic popping eyeball scene from the second
Evil Dead.
And this one works almost as well now as that one did then (with a
stronger rating, Raimi could have reached Evil Dead level
greatness with this gag). It had the entire audience in stitches -- or
staples, as the case may be.
Drag Me to Hell refuses
to apologize for what it is and never tries to be something it's not:
An old-fashioned horror comedy romp. Lots of jumps, lots of laughs,
plenty of gushing bodily fluids (at least for a PG-13), and even a few
genuine chills. This movie ain't art, and Raimi doesn't forget that for
a second.
Is Drag Me to Hell
flawless? It's a PG-13 Evil
Dead 2 (a movie with so much blood, the MPAA wouldn't
grant it an R rating) wanna-be; obviously it isn't perfect. The ending
is all too obvious, the rating all too family friendly and the
one-liners all too generic (and there's no Bruce Campbell to deliver
them). Will it give horror fans their $10 worth at the
theater? Definitely.
Drag Me to Hell
is solid enough as a horror flick to show
Raimi hasn't lost it. Now, if only he'd get behind the camera
for a nice R rated or unrated Evil
Dead 4. Why stop at fountains of blood in a film like
this, when you can have geysers?
