In other ways, however, it does have a tendency to fall flat. In many ways, Raimi’s perverted sense of dark comedy is completely welcome into much at hand this seems especially true for viewers who are relatively familiar with how the filmmaker’s mind tends to work. This, tied in with the flick’s truly unnerving sense of humor, is where Drag Me To Hell tends to falter. Unlike Videodrome, however, there is no sense of a melding of reality and surreality – we are to take every element of the supernatural here, not as her own hallucination, but as a literal occurrence. Since the only perspective we are given is hers, we are just as confused as she is with the numerous projections of her curse that happen in the real world.
With a chance encounter at her workplace, she finds herself wrapped up in a wild journey battling curses and literal demons. However, most of the rest of the film isn’t quite so easily decipherable. These were the bits that really drew me in, as I expected this film to continue on with this thread of feminist critique it had initially projected so convincingly. The primary narrative of the movie details the life of our protagonist and her struggles to get noticed amongst her largely male-dominated workplace. Like many good films, Drag Me To Hell starts off pretty ordinarily, before growing increasingly perplexing from one scene to the next. There’s so much about it that’s so off-the-wall, I don’t even know where to begin. I had no idea what to expect upon starting this film (despite what The Evil Dead has taught me about Raimi’s brand of humor), but I definitely believe that’s the best way one should enter this movie. After some foray into mainstream blockbuster – by way of his Spider-Man films – it’s nice to see him dip his toes into genuine horror once again. I’m certainly no stranger to Raimi’s flavor of horror I consider the original The Evil Dead to be one of the finest horrors ever and I’ve watched it countless times.
God bless Sam Raimi and that utterly unhinged star in the sky from whence he came.
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