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Drag Me to Hell |  | Director: Sam Raimi
Actors: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Ruth Livier, Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  174 reviews
Sales Rank: 494
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 99 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: 61106489
UPC: 025195055338
EAN: 0025195055338
ASIN: B002JT69IW
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: October 13, 2009
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Product Description
Drag Me To Hell (2009):
Directed by: Sam Raimi
Starring: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, and Dileep Rao
Synopsis: Christine Brown is responsible for loans in a bank and expects to be promoted to the open position of assistant manager after dealing a big contract. However, the new hire Stu Rubin is a collusive coworker that scheming against Christine to be selected by the manager Mr. Jacks to the position. When Mrs. Ganush, an old gypsy with appearance of witch that has been evicted by the bank, requests a third extension of her mortgage, Mr. Jacks tells Christine that it is her call. Christine denies the loan to prove her boss that she can take tough decisions. Mrs. Ganush begs for the loan but Christine shames the woman calling the security. In the night, Christine is stalked by Mrs. Ganush in the parking lot and they struggle. Out of the blue, Mrs, Ganush removes a button from Christine's coat, curses it, returns the button to her and vanishes. Later, while going home with her psychologist boy-friend Clay Dalton, they pass by the fortune teller Rham Jas, and Christine decides to consult him. He advises her that Christine has the fiend Lamia, the Black Goat, upon her. When Christine is haunted by the dark spirit during the night, at home, she tries to fix the situation releasing the loan of Mrs. Ganush.
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Touted as a return to Sam Raimi's horror-movie roots, Drag Me to Hell is indeed closer in spirit to the director's Evil Dead pictures than to his Spider-Man films. You got your gypsy gargoyles with rotted dentures, your upchucking corpses, your flexible two-way orifices--yes, Raimi's definitely back in the saddle. There's even a story: a sad loan officer (Alison Lohman) turns down the aforementioned denture-wearing gypsy for a loan extension, which leads to an evil curse and a date in hell in three days' time. A séance, an animal sacrifice, and a session in a storm-tossed graveyard will make the 72 hours pass very nervously, thank you, along with assorted scares. Justin Long plays Lohman's upper-class boyfriend, and Raimi fills the rest of the cast with some unusual and unfamiliar types. Along with the giddy horror-comedy that bursts out of the movie every 10 minutes or so, there's also an underlying mood of pity: Lohman's character is something of a hard-luck sad sack, who does enough wrong things to make her seem like a truly abject individual, well outside the heroic model of most multiplex offerings. (Lohman's own little-girl-lost quality adds to this feeling.) But don't let that get in the way of the fun-ride aspects of this goofy enterprise: Drag Me to Hell is a bunch of Z-movie gags wrapped in top-drawer production values. --Robert Horton
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 Silly and Over-the-top November 22, 2009
Ella L. Hibbard (Seattle, WA USA)
On Rotten Tomatoes, this movie got around a 92% fresh - which means that it's classified as a "good movie." I usually trust the critics, and decided to go see it. I'm still in shock to the fact that i can't get my money or two hours of my life back for this terrible movie.
Now, I understand that it was categorized as a "black comedy"...but there was nothing funny or even remotely "cool" about it. The CGI animation was terrible, and looked like a cheap video game. The acting was bad, and the slapstick material came off as forced and didn't even crack a smile out of me. The storyline was really weak too - I knew right from the beginning what was going to happen to her. Don't forget about the gross-out scenes; there were plenty of those, and if you like snot and saliva, you'll really enjoy this one.
No more Sam Raimi movies for me.
 It's About Time! November 22, 2009
A. Teague (northeast)
Finally, a horror movie worth a review. This story is original for the most part. It has great special effects. The acting is way above par, and it made me jump a time or two.
The story is about a woman who is struggling to be someone she really isn't. She must act refined and well educated around her boyfriend's parents to "fit in". She also must be all business-like and uncaring to a degree, in her job at a bank, to try an get a promotion. During this time, an old gypsy woman goes to her for help. She needs a loan extension, but unfortunately is refused, and that is when all "hell" breaks loose. A curse is put on our lead character and the main story begins...The action hardly ever lets up and the ending is awesome!
Sam Raimi did an excellent job with this and I would have to say it is my favorite of his to date! I would highly recommend this movie.
Better than Expected November 20, 2009
Veronica M. Davis (South Euclid, OH USA)
Great movie. I was not expecting much, thus I was really shocked during the car fight with the Gyspy woman from the bank. Goodness! The rest of the movie was also entertaining, right up to the very end too.
Pretty Bad November 18, 2009
Natter (NY)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
It started off fun and scary and then got worse. When the goat started talking I was like really?? OK I hate this movie.
 Not as good as I had hoped November 16, 2009
Thomas Lynn (Cranston, RI)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love good horror films. This was one is just OK. Special effects seem a bit heavy handed and cheesy.
Story is good but wanders and I never really cared what happened to the main characters. Some good shock moments and all-in-all fun to watch. Just not what I thought it would be.
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