{"id":5325,"date":"2017-01-07T17:44:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T22:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=5325"},"modified":"2023-12-25T11:55:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T16:55:29","slug":"drag-me-to-hell-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=5325","title":{"rendered":"Drag Me To Hell-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drag Me To Hell-2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director Sam Raimi<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starring Alison Lohman, Justin Long<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scott’s Review #591<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reviewed January 7, 2017<\/p>\n

Grade: B<\/strong><\/p>\n

Drag Me To Hell (2009) is a fairly predictable, modern-day horror film, with some supernatural elements and special effects that make it slightly above average.<\/p>\n

Directed by Sam Raimi (of Spiderman fame) one can see his stamp on it, as he has a way of horror camp. 1983’s cult classic, Evil Dead, directed by Raimi is evidence of this.<\/p>\n

Young Loan Officer, Christine Brown, played by Alison Lohman, is bucking for a promotion and intent on impressing her boss by being a stickler for the rules. She chooses the wrong day to do this as an elderly woman, desperately needing a loan, is denied one by Christine.<\/p>\n

The angry woman places a curse on Christine, causing her life to spin out of control. She has a mere three days to remove the curse before her soul is “dragged to hell”.<\/p>\n

As with most horror films involving a curse, the plot is completely unrealistic and filled with holes. The film also tries to be both serious and comical at times- sometimes succeeding, sometimes not.<\/p>\n

In a few scenes I was not sure if the intention was to be comical or if it was unintended, but periodically the acting was over the top.<\/p>\n

With all that said, if one is interested in a fun horror film that has a few scares and is not too gory (it is rated PG-13 after all), one will enjoy Drag Me To Hell (2009).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drag Me To Hell-2009 Director Sam Raimi Starring Alison Lohman, Justin Long Scott’s Review #591 Reviewed January 7, 2017 Grade: B Drag Me To Hell (2009) is a fairly predictable, modern-day horror film, with some supernatural elements and special effects that make it slightly above average. Directed by Sam Raimi (of Spiderman fame) one can … Continue reading Drag Me To Hell-2009<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,2515,2770,13,2771,2772,1218],"tags":[309,2517,2773,248,2774,2775,1219],"class_list":["post-5325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2009-movie-reviews","category-adriana-barraza","category-alison-lohman","category-horror-films","category-justin-long","category-octavia-spencer","category-sam-raimi","tag-2009-movie-reviews","tag-adriana-barraza","tag-alison-lohman","tag-horror-films","tag-justin-long","tag-octavia-spencer","tag-sam-raimi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5325"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19710,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325\/revisions\/19710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}