DRAG ME TO HELL - sam raimi - 3.5 / 10

It’s reassuring, in a way, that even after achieving massive success in mainstream action movies (the Spider-Man franchise) Sam Raimi is still capable of delivering the same sort of movie he used to make on a shoestring budget with a couple friends at a cabin in the woods. The director’s latest, Drag Me to Hell, is tonally and thematically very similar to his horror comedies from twenty years ago (Evil Dead and Army of Darkness). That said, I still didn’t enjoy Drag Me to Hell all that much. I guess I should have expected that since I really didn’t care for Evil Dead or Army of Darkness all that much either. But the one new element Raimi adds to Drag Me to Hell is the one that really turned me off to the film, and that’s the cringe-inducing comedy of the Ricky Gervais / Danny McBride / Will Ferrell school. And since I generally hate that sort of humor, it’s no surprise that I was pretty much repulsed by Drag Me to Hell.