Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Drag Me to Hell: Fiery Fun
Posted by Christian Yoder on Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:02 PM
By Matt Brunson
DRAG ME TO HELL
DIRECTED BY Sam Raimi
STARS Alison Lohman, Justin Long
The face of horror in modern cinema is, sad to say, torture porn, where sadism is exhibited with alarming regularity (most notably by the filmmakers) and imagination is only employed when the scripter conjures up gruesome new ways for characters to die. Because of this lamentable trend, it’s an effortless task to sing the praises of Drag Me to Hell, a funhouse freak show that’s more interested in delivering old-fashioned chills (it’s even rated PG-13 rather than the expected R) than in wallowing in misogyny, masochism and mutilation. The story is so thin that the entire screenplay could have been written on a bubble gum wrapper, yet the end result is so delirious in its desire to delight that moviegoers willing to be jerked around won’t mind.
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