Drag Me To Hell Movie – Creepy Bolt From The Blue

Published on: 28th May, 2009

Drag Me To Hell Movie Review

Director Sam Raimi takes to the rudder once again with his intimidating and creepy flick ‘Drag Me To Hell. The focal character of the movie is Christine Brown played by Alison Lohman, seems to have it all, working in a top-notch banking firm in L.A, an amorous boyfriend as arm candy and vivid future prospects. In a frantic attempt to spark up her loan officer career and rise to the next level, repudiates the pleas of an old woman, Mrs. Ganush, to grant her any further extension to her lease. Christine in a bid to come in the good books of her senior is quite stern and assertive about not paying heed to Mrs. Ganush’s pleas. Out of the feelings of sheer humiliation, Mrs.Ganush strikes back at her.

The old lady hasn’t given up on Christine as yet, and ensnares her later that night, the major cat fight occurring in the car, wherein the lady lays a wicked curse of Lamia on her that would last for three hellish whole days, thereby altering her life into a harrowing experience. Christine’s boyfriend, Clay, played by Justin Long doesn’t seem to pay much heed to her perturbing occurrences, labelling them as sheer fluke, though later on in the movie he comes around and lend a helping hand. In a desperate attempt to overcome the curse, she takes the assistance of a psychic, Rham Jas played by Dileep Rao. With no visible respite, the fourth and her final day bears witness to her being yanked into devil hell. How she abstains from being drawn into this hell hole, is what one needs to check out in the flick.

Sam, who achieves stardom with his critically acclaimed Evil Dead series, tries to bank in with tried-and-tested horror formula in his latest low-budget venture, without much respite. The hype that followed the Evil Dead movies, has unfortunately not been able to be retained in this movie. Though one does get the creepy crawlies in a few shots, which bear the trademark Sam touch, like those involving Mrs.Ganush, ghost assaults on Christine, the scare meter has not touched its peek in this movie, with sudden frightening jolts being amply interspersed through the movie to create chilling scenarios. The script has bearings of quite some characters and scenes intended to quantify its length, which the movie could have well done without. The background score of the music is par excellence in comparison to the mediocrity of the script.