PISSED BECAUSE I'M UGLY.
The other night I went to see Drag Me To Hell with my girlfriend and a few of my friends. I found out that this was a Sam Raimi film until I watched the review on the Totally Rad Show (which influences 95% of my movie viewing experiences via theater). My girlfriend wanted to see it, and I'm a huge Evil Dead/Army of Darkness fan, so I also wanted to see it.
Everyone I was with had no idea what this movie was about, and were unaware of what they were in for. I knew exactly what was about to come, and damn was I excited. In this movie, a mortgage loan worker at a bank has to deny this elderly woman an extension on her house payment, and essentially evicts her from her home. Chris, the mortgage worker, plays it off as simply doing her job, and let's her greed overcome her to throw this woman's life away.
Well, Chris fucked with the wrong elderly lady, and as such is cursed by some Spanish demon or something, and has three days before she's dragged to hell. Essentially, the movie consists of Chris trying to live normally with this curse, and then ultimately trying to rid herself of the curse.
The plot sounds pretty straight forward, but whenever it comes down to it, this movie is a comedy. Anyone not going into the film with this mindset will be incredibly disappointed and/or angry. This movie has a great setup for shocking moments, and is genuinely frightening in a pop-out BOO! kind of way, instead of being psychologically frightening. The score to this film is nearly perfect. The sound made my hairs stand on edge, and for the most part made me tense as hell during a few segments. You know whenever it's coming, and whenever it happens I was still shocked as hell. The combination of being expertly shot along with the sound made this hilarious movie genuinely scary, albeit in a way that is cheap and unfair.
If one thing is for certain, Sam Raimi as a director has voice, and he has style. This movie is shot in ways that I felt were original and deliberately made you focus on something out of the ordinary. I recall several scenes where the focus is on a microwave, while the lead character stands to the side. Instead of looking at the main character, I was focused on the reflection the microwave gave off. I ALWAYS thought something was going to pop out, and most generally something did. The microwave was safe though, but that kind of shot made me focus on something out of the way, and as such sucked me back into the experience that much more whenever something did pop out.
The acting in this movie is as good as it needs to be. People need to realize that some of the acting in this movie that was done poorly was deliberate. I think Raimi takes just as much satisfaction in having his audience laugh as he does scaring them. Some of the characters are absurd, and the situations that Chris finds herself in are so incredibly laughable. Some of the CGI effects are just downright fucking hilarious, and this movie exceeded the expectations that I had.
This is easily the best movie I've seen in awhile, and is a modern day B-horror film. Although, once again, I laughed whenever no one else did, especially early on in the film before anyone knew it was a comedy.
Regardless, whenever the end credits came up, I couldn't help but stand up and yell," Man, that movie was THE SHIT!"
Go see it.
Everyone I was with had no idea what this movie was about, and were unaware of what they were in for. I knew exactly what was about to come, and damn was I excited. In this movie, a mortgage loan worker at a bank has to deny this elderly woman an extension on her house payment, and essentially evicts her from her home. Chris, the mortgage worker, plays it off as simply doing her job, and let's her greed overcome her to throw this woman's life away.
Well, Chris fucked with the wrong elderly lady, and as such is cursed by some Spanish demon or something, and has three days before she's dragged to hell. Essentially, the movie consists of Chris trying to live normally with this curse, and then ultimately trying to rid herself of the curse.
The plot sounds pretty straight forward, but whenever it comes down to it, this movie is a comedy. Anyone not going into the film with this mindset will be incredibly disappointed and/or angry. This movie has a great setup for shocking moments, and is genuinely frightening in a pop-out BOO! kind of way, instead of being psychologically frightening. The score to this film is nearly perfect. The sound made my hairs stand on edge, and for the most part made me tense as hell during a few segments. You know whenever it's coming, and whenever it happens I was still shocked as hell. The combination of being expertly shot along with the sound made this hilarious movie genuinely scary, albeit in a way that is cheap and unfair.
If one thing is for certain, Sam Raimi as a director has voice, and he has style. This movie is shot in ways that I felt were original and deliberately made you focus on something out of the ordinary. I recall several scenes where the focus is on a microwave, while the lead character stands to the side. Instead of looking at the main character, I was focused on the reflection the microwave gave off. I ALWAYS thought something was going to pop out, and most generally something did. The microwave was safe though, but that kind of shot made me focus on something out of the way, and as such sucked me back into the experience that much more whenever something did pop out.
The acting in this movie is as good as it needs to be. People need to realize that some of the acting in this movie that was done poorly was deliberate. I think Raimi takes just as much satisfaction in having his audience laugh as he does scaring them. Some of the characters are absurd, and the situations that Chris finds herself in are so incredibly laughable. Some of the CGI effects are just downright fucking hilarious, and this movie exceeded the expectations that I had.
This is easily the best movie I've seen in awhile, and is a modern day B-horror film. Although, once again, I laughed whenever no one else did, especially early on in the film before anyone knew it was a comedy.
Regardless, whenever the end credits came up, I couldn't help but stand up and yell," Man, that movie was THE SHIT!"
Go see it.
