Drag Me To Hell Blu-Ray Review
SoHood.com Reviewed by: Khan Mitchell
Movie Rating: 3.5 out of 5
Extras Rating: 5 out of 5
Overview: Christine Brown is an ambitious L.A. loan officer with a charming boyfriend, professor Clay Dalton. Life is good until the mysterious Mrs. Ganush arrives at the bank to beg for an extension on her home loan. Should Christine follow her instincts and give the old woman a break? Or should she deny the extension to impress her boss, Mr. Jacks, and get a leg-up on a promotion? Christine fatefully chooses the latter, shaming Mrs. Ganush and dispossessing her of her home. In retaliation, the old woman places the powerful curse of the Lamia on Christine, transforming her life into a living hell. Haunted by an evil spirit and misunderstood by a skeptical boyfriend, she seeks the aid of seer Rham Jas to save her soul from eternal damnation. To help the shattered Christine return her life to normal, the psychic sets her on a frantic course to reverse the spell. As evil forces close in, Christine must face the unthinkable: How far will she go to break free of the curse?
In Drag Me To Hell, an old woman Mrs. Ganush (Lorna Raver) curses the loan officer Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) who foreclosed on her house, causing an evil spirit to torture the officer with the intention of eventually, well, dragging her to Hell. This sends the girl on a race to find a way out of the curse before that happens, and… well, that’s pretty much the plot of the film. Like all good horror, it’s very simple, but this isn’t a typical horror film. It’s Sam Raimi film.
What does that mean? Well, for those of you that are unindoctrinated, Sam Raimi’s horror movies are ridiculously visceral – so over the top in their violence that they’re downright comical, and yet, the secret is that all of his characters play it straight. There are no stupid attempts at camp or anything like that, and this makes everything twice as funny. This movie has a lot of Raimi’s favorite motifs, like people floating in the air and doing crazy stuff, and gore, but it doesn’t have some of the others like, well, Bruce Campbell. The best description I can give it is “Sam Raimi horror with a bigger budget,” but not all silly like in Army of Darkness (1992). And like his other masterworks in this genre (the Evil Dead movies), it’s a lot of fun as a result.
I could go into detail about what all I liked about this film, but unfortunately, that would give it a lot of it away, so let me just say that “the cat stuff” and “the gross callbacks” had me rolling. Like the plot description, there’s not much more to say about it than that, except that again, the mastery of this technique is where Raimi is at his best, and it’s good to see him back in his element and to see that he hasn’t lost it any (unlike, say, George Lucas). I don’t know how many more of these Raimi can make (if any), but if you were a fan of his early stuff, this is a fun throwback to that. Highly recommended.
The specific aspects of the Blu-ray:
The Drag Me To Hell Blu-ray Disc allows movie fans to enjoy the film in high definition format, delivering far more crisply detailed images than standard DVDs. The sounds of The Drag Me To Hell Blu-Ray Disc is extraordinary.
The Audio and visuals of The Drag Me To Hell: The audio was okay. The visuals looked superb. Blu-Ray Extras: There’s a feature titled Production Video Diaries but it’s just a collection of clips and interviews from behind the scenes.
Blu-Ray Extras Production Video Diaries; D-Box; BD Live – My Scenes Sharing
