Review of Drag Me to Hell

Drag Me to Hell . . . From the Director of "The Evil Dead Trilogy," is EXACTLY what the movie you're interested in seeing or have seen already is. The Evil Dead movies weren't very scary; not scary to the point of having to check under your bed or putting a chair up to the closet door or sleeping with the lights on at least. The Evil Dead movies are movies that are unlike ANY HORROR MOVIES "out there" because of the incredibly inventive genius at work behind and in front of the camera. Inventiveness seems to come from young, fresh malleable minds where neurons are still differentiating and areas of the cerebral landscape haven't yet been discovered. With age, the brain like, the body begins to calcify; it becomes MUCH HARDER to come-up with WACKY new things to put up on the screen. Drag Me to Hell is The Evil Dead without the (literally) GALLONS OF BLOOD and the grim, suffocating NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD feel. Drag Me to Hell feels like Sam Raimi loved The Grudge, The Grudge 2, The Ring, and The Ring 2 and thought (with his maturing and more world wary mind) it would be great to have another short-cute blonde-haired girl caught-up in the middle of "scary" "chaotic" "spiritually traumatic" pretense. Even though the "short-cute, blond-haired girl" in The Ring and The Ring 2 actually had black hair (actually Jennifer Connelly made-up to look slightly Asian in ethnicity for sake of argument), the "short-cute blonde-haired –girl" characters and their dark-haired boyfriends are ALL COMPLETELY Interchangeable. Despite the classic "Sam Raimi Moments" (Wacky Editing, Dancing Evil Dead Monsters, and classic JUMP moments), Drag Me to Hell can also be integrated with The Ring and The Grudge movies . . . possibly the Best Title for: Drag Me To Hell would be: "The Grudge 3--a Ring Sequel: The Button." I feel very bad about getting ripped-off by Drag Me to Hell. At least Joe Lo Duca's deeply visceral musical style can still be heard amid Christopher Young's credited score and KNB's special effects are always awesome. Even though there are only N and B and no K here. And there's a face that I missed; and the whole movie seems so empty without the face. Sam Raimi movies could not be the best Sam Raimi movies without the face and the chin present. The Face and The Chin are dear old friends to Sam Raimi movies and I am sad that I missed The Face with The Chin. SAM RAIMI better do The Evil Dead: Redux and include The Face with The Chin as the main character.