Drag me to Hell

Hank Scorpio

On rotten tomatoes it dug up a score of 90% so i was thinking to myself this might be worth a watch

Found the movie extremly dire to be honest, acting was pretty brutal too, even the entrance sequence of the young boy was really really poorly done.

Opinions of this movie?

Basq

A search wouldn't have hurt tbh..

Karl Hungus

It was great, exactly the kind of horror film we needed, something different from the endless Saw franchise. It was something with a bit of humour and overall it was a great film. My biggest criticism is that it relied too much on loud noises for scares, but aside from that, a great film.

Basq

I was really looking forward to seeing it.. but didn't get around to seeing it when it was released in the cinema.

So now stuck waiting for a DVD or Blu-ray release. R1 can't be far off, I'd imagine.

Is it wrong that every SINGLE time I see the movie poster, I think Alison Lohman is being felt-up by Satan..



.. and she looks like she's quite enjoying it! :pac:

jayteecork

basquille wrote: »

A search wouldn't have hurt tbh..

Last time I dug up a search I was blamed for digging up old threads...

Basq

Not to get too off-topic but in my eyes, it really depends on the forum and circumstances.

How old was the thread you dug up? The last post in that thread was about a month ago.. so I'd consider that safe to dig up. Anything older than a year, I'd typically leave buried!

CiDeRmAn

The film is one of the movie highlights of 2009, one of the horror highlights of all time too.
How Raimi has made a proper scary film, with none of the torture porn crap we have been subjected too of late, it was disgusting, funny, shocking, creepy and, did I mention funny?
Also the use of various classic Raimi touches like the car, the makeup and effects especially during the seance, pure genius.
I can't wait for the BluRay, this one ranks with Evil Dead II, Below and Alien for me.

Otis Driftwood

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

one of the horror highlights of all time too.

Are you having a laugh?

You think this stands on the same platform as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,Halloween,The Thing,A Nightmare on Elm Street or Alien.

DMTH is an average,throwaway horror movie with telegraphed and predictible "scares" that no one will be talking about in a years time.Raimi tried far too hard to gross the audience out with the incessant oral fixation that became ineffective very,very soon.

The ending was good albeit predictible.

MikeC101

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

How Raimi has made a proper scary film, with none of the torture porn crap we have been subjected too of late, it was disgusting, funny, shocking, creepy and, did I mention funny?

Not having a go at you Ciderman, but am I the only one sick to death (no pun intended) of people using the phrase "torture porn"? And indeed the phrase itself.

It's just a label to denigrate any movie featuring realistic / extreme violence that critics / moralist disapprove of - and associates anyone watching said movies as someone who watches them solely for the violence.

You'd swear graphic violence was a new thing in horror movies too, do people not remember Cannibal Holocaust, I Spit on Your Grave?

MikeC101

Oh and Drag Me to Hell was pretty good - some very enjoyable scenes. Some great humour in it too.

Luckily most of the "scary" bits were well telegraphed and gave me ample time to cover my ears before the volume was turned all the way up to 11. Never experienced a movie that turned so bloody loud at points, took away from my enjoyment a lot. (could have been an issue with the cinema, I don't know)

another1

I was not captured byt the trailer..nothing original ....maybe i'm not in mood for such kind of movies now. ..

emeraldstar

I found it utterly dire and laughed throughout the movie - not in a good way.

Karl Hungus

MikeC101 wrote: »

Not having a go at you Ciderman, but am I the only one sick to death (no pun intended) of people using the phrase "torture porn"? And indeed the phrase itself.

It's just a label to denigrate any movie featuring realistic / extreme violence that critics / moralist disapprove of - and associates anyone watching said movies as someone who watches them solely for the violence.

You'd swear graphic violence was a new thing in horror movies too, do people not remember Cannibal Holocaust, I Spit on Your Grave?

No, you're absolutely not the only one sick to death of that utterly stupid term, and there's quite a few different horror forums I post on where they'll pounce anyone silly enough to use 'Torture Porn' in a sentence. It is at this stage one of the most appalling terms in the hack journalist vocabulary, a nonsense buzz word criticism that really has little meaning at all in relation to film, but makes an impact, like "Exploitation" or "Video Nasty".

And most of the time, the very same people will look at violence far more extreme in others films and think nothing of it, nobody has any issue with watching Joe Pesci crush someone's head in a vice, or be brutally beaten to death with baseball bats in Casino. Murphy being shot to pieces in Robocop doesn't raise any eyebrows, despite being one of the most gratuitous and shocking pieces of violence in mainstream cinema. Both films are far more violent than Hostel or Saw. But only in the context of horror, violence is wrong? It's ridiculous double standards.

Sadly, the stupid term isn't going away, but you can at least put it to use and use it as an indicator as to when someone's talking out their ass, or who's opinion is worthless.

MikeC101 wrote: »

Oh and Drag Me to Hell was pretty good - some very enjoyable scenes. Some great humour in it too.

Luckily most of the "scary" bits were well telegraphed and gave me ample time to cover my ears before the volume was turned all the way up to 11. Never experienced a movie that turned so bloody loud at points, took away from my enjoyment a lot. (could have been an issue with the cinema, I don't know)

No, I'd say for definite it's an issue with the film and not the cinema. Posted a thread a while back to see if anyone else had any issue with it, but it was shockingly loud at times, and I actually came out of the cinema with my ears ringing.

MikeC101

Karl Hungus wrote: »

No, you're absolutely not the only one sick to death of that utterly stupid term, and there's quite a few different horror forums I post on where they'll pounce anyone silly enough to use 'Torture Porn' in a sentence. It is at this stage one of the most appalling terms in the hack journalist vocabulary, a nonsense buzz word criticism that really has little meaning at all in relation to film, but makes an impact, like "Exploitation" or "Video Nasty".

That's good to hear. Definite overtones of the moral campaigning to ban the "Video Nasties" with the phrase.

Karl Hungus wrote: »

And most of the time, the very same people will look at violence far more extreme in others films and think nothing of it, nobody has any issue with watching Joe Pesci crush someone's head in a vice, or be brutally beaten to death with baseball bats in Casino. Murphy being shot to pieces in Robocop doesn't raise any eyebrows, despite being one of the most gratuitous and shocking pieces of violence in mainstream cinema. Both films are far more violent than Hostel or Saw. But only in the context of horror, violence is wrong? It's ridiculous double standards.

I think it's a feature of horror being in something of a "genre ghetto" in the eyes of "respectable critics" and some movie buffs. Though I'm more familiar with it happening in written works, the phenomenon certainly exists with film - I've seen horror movies described as "religious thrillers", "paranormal thrillers", "psychological thrillers" - anything that makes sure they're not seen as horror.

It's interesting when put in the context of more mainstream movies, as you say there is a strange double standard in operation. After seeing Hostel I was really surprised it was considered as "torture porn", it's actually not particularly explicit or gruesome.

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Sadly, the stupid term isn't going away, but you can at least put it to use and use it as an indicator as to when someone's talking out their ass, or who's opinion is worthless.

Yeah, probably the best use for it. Alas, I doubt it's going away anytime soon.

Karl Hungus wrote: »

No, I'd say for definite it's an issue with the film and not the cinema. Posted a thread a while back to see if anyone else had any issue with it, but it was shockingly loud at times, and I actually came out of the cinema with my ears ringing.

The person I saw the movie with complained about it too - it's a cheap scare tactic then, if it was intentional. Anybody will jump if you blast the volume level up enough decibels.

Otis Driftwood

I cringe every time I hear the term TP.As KH pointed out,its only used in terms of horror movies.Take something like Ichi The Killer,prolonged torture in various scenes,a helluva lot more violent and mean spirited than Saw et al yet it has never been put into this bracket.Why?
Historically horror movies are fair game for criticism and its been going on since the 70s with Mary Whitehouse and her moral crusade against "video nasties".This went on through the 80s and took a new lease of life with the Jamie Bulger case in the 90s.
Horror is always going to be viewed as somewhat of a left field genre and will always be targeted by those on the moral highground.Its only a matter of time until some horrendous crime is blamed on Hostel or Saw.

Karl Hungus

MikeC101 wrote: »

I think it's a feature of horror being in something of a "genre ghetto" in the eyes of "respectable critics" and some movie buffs. Though I'm more familiar with it happening in written works, the phenomenon certainly exists with film - I've seen horror movies described as "religious thrillers", "paranormal thrillers", "psychological thrillers" - anything that makes sure they're not seen as horror.

Ah, that really irritates me, as if horror was a dirty word. Just picked up What Lies Beneath on DVD the other week, and the sleeve describes it as a "Supernatural Thriller"? For god's sake...

Eirebear

Drag me to Hell was an enjoyable old fahioned horror movie, but to class it as up there with the best is maybe going a bit too far for me.
It certainly wasnt all that scary, but was tongue in cheek enough to get away with it.

As for the sound, i loved it.

Karl Hungus

Aye, there's a few recent horror films that I'd rate alongside the best, but Drag Me To Hell certainly wouldn't be it. Still a good film, but not quite that amazing.