Raimi's Return to Horror: The 'Drag Me to Hell' Trailer
Filed under: Horror, Thrillers, SXSW, Universal
I've been a Sam Raimi fan since the very first time I laid my fingers on the creepy dark blue Thorn-EMI VHS case pictured right here -----> ) From the awesome "Evil" trilogy to the very clever Darkman and the very underrated The Quick and the Dead, right up to A Simple Plan, For Love of the Game (yup, dug it), and The Gift -- it was just fun to watch an "old pal" make his way up the movie chain. And then Spider-Man hit, and suddenly everyone knew how cool a director he was. Hmph. I got that snarky little "I liked him years ago" vibe and went back to watch Evil Dead 2 again...Ah yes, that's why we're here. Because Sam Raimi is making his first return to full-bore horror since 1987. (Yes, fellow genre minions, I said 1987. Army of Darkness is not a horror film. Admit it already!) A work-in-progress cut of Mr. Raimi's Drag Me to Hell played in Los Angeles a few weeks back, and if my trusty west coast horror posse is to be trusted, then the movie is pretty darn good. (Much of the Cinematical squad will find out next week when the film plays at SXSW, although it's still not the "final print" version.)
Which brings me to the point: This brand new trailer on Yahoo! As we learn from the way-too-forthcoming promotional clip, Alison Lohman plays a frustrated bank manager who gets hit with a gypsy curse. In the hands of most directors, I'd call it a half-intriguing Ouija Board / spooky seance affair, and of course I'd still see it ASAP, but like I said: Sam Raimi directed it. That's no guarantee of quality, but it's as close as you're likely to get in the genre movie biz. Drag Me to Hell opens all over the place on May 29.
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3-11-2009 @ 4:34PM
Peter Hall said...
I like the trailer and the initial buzz is hopeful, but the last few things Raimi has been involved with ranged from mediocre on down to zomgawful. Most of it has been in a producer capacity, but I sure hope it's not a sign of things to come. I don't think I can take the fall of another horror great. Carpenter's stung enough.
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3-11-2009 @ 8:06PM
The Regula said...
Come On, that old lady couldn't have made the girl wake up with a pimpled face or something like that, a curse like that seems a bit extreme. But were in a recession so I guess that lady probably needed that extension really bad lol.
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3-12-2009 @ 4:50PM
MCW said...
Looks like someone even stapled her in the forehead, so that probably helped to make her a little angrier than she would have been originally.
3-12-2009 @ 8:32PM
David Musto said...
I'm going to see this because I, too, am a Raimi fanatic. But two things ran through my head as deterrents: "Is this Thinner?" and "Where is Bruce?".
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