DEVIL TAKE THE HINDMOST

After the Spider-man movies, Sam Raimi gets the chance to cut loose in Drag Me To Hell. As Critic After Dark Noel Vera says, the director enlists shadows, flames, flies, staplers, creaks, whispers, embalming fluid, anything and everything under the sun (and a number of which are buried or hidden otherwise, under a full moon) to his cause, whirling them in a non-stop devil’s twister of a comic-book ride.
You can imagine Sam Raimi on the set of his Spider-man films, viewing the various installments of the Hostel and Saw franchise and thinking: “I can do that; I can do better than that. Give me a chance, and I can show them how it’s really done.”
With Drag Me To Hell (2009) Raimi gets his chance, and how. Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) hopes to impress her boss Jack (David Paymer), so she turns down a request for extension on a house payment from a Mrs. Ganush (Lorna Raver), a decrepit, milky-eyed old Romany woman with a set of slimy dentures.
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