Spoiler warning for those of you that haven't seen it, I'll try to put any major ones at the end.


So, as a b-day gift to myself I went out and finally saw Drag Me to Hell. I was the only one in the theater which was nice for me but made me slightly sad since it's only been out a week :/

About halfway through this movie I was feeling slightly disappointed because it wasn't quite over the top enough for me, which teaches me to dismiss something out of hand because holy HELL does that change.

It hasn't got a great deal of gore, I've heard people complain about that, but it has plenty of other bodily fluids squirting around and has some truly squirm inducing moments in it of the type only Sam Raimi can provide.

Another thing it did well was jump scares, easily one of the most overdone devices in a horror movie. I can usually see a jump scare coming from a mile away and usually they don't work that well. Raimi's jump scares work in this one and I'll be damned (haha) if I can figure out what exactly it is that worked so well. I think it's a mixture of visuals and timing, he's just good at setting up a shot so even though you know a jump scare is coming, the timing of it still makes it startling.


Thoughts:

1- Who keeps an anvil hanging in their garage?

2- The goat was only in the movie for five minutes and was the funniest character in it.

3- Christine, NEVER pause to fire off a one liner.






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4- Dude, some geek her boyfriend is. She gets him that nickel he wants so much and he keeps it in an envelope for three days rather than put it straight into his collection? You fail at nerd, Clay!

5- THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is a fucking DEMON. Not only does he bust through windows and slap people around before dragging them off, he waits until Christine is certain she's safe, seems her life is really getting on the right track and is right there in front of her man long enough for him to show her the button right before he drags her off.

6- Sam Raimi stated Christine starts out thinking she's good and ends up pretty despicable by the end of the movie, I think I'm probably despicable then because I totally related to her and furthermore was really hoping we'd get to see the old bitch burn. I guess I'll see you all in hell

7- Also if he wanted that to come across and set some kind of sympathy up for the gypsies, he probably shouldn't have had the first victim be a little boy. Just sayin'. I mean, sheesh, you think damning Christine to hell was a bit harsh....how old was that kid, nine? Ten?

8- Um, gypsy folks? People I am descended from? I rather think this cavalier attitude of sending people to hell who really...let's be honest now...don't really deserve it, is not the smartest thing to do. You're sending someone who hates you down to a place where hatred and rage are probably the only emotions you can nurture and keep a hold of and giving them an eternity to plot, that reaaaaaaaaally doesn't sound like a good thing for you or your bloodline.

9- On the above thought, this is one of the first movies in a long time I wanted to base a fanfic off, just because that's a good set up. Christine comes back as a demon and starts ripping through the old lady's family and the only way they can save themselves is find a way to give old Mrs. Ganush's soul over. Yea it's stupid, but hey