Showing posts with label Old Lady. Show all posts
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Friday, August 26, 2011

Drag Me To Hell





Although not really listed as a comedy horror on most horror sites, this movie seriously has the Raimi brand of dark humor all over it!  It's the same humor that comes through in Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness.  You might say that it is "demon humor."  I think if people try to take this for a straight horror film, it gets annoying pretty quickly; but seen as a really silly dark comedy with demons, it's much more enjoyable. I really appreciate the financial sub-text here as well; the reference to the recent housing crisis and foreclosure frenzy are a nice reason for the curse to be invoked in the first place.  And no, I don't think it's a rip-off of Thinner either.  Actually the scariest thing in the film are the boyfriends parents!  :-)