Trailer For ‘Drag Me To Hell’ Will Curse You For Life

Posted by Rob Hunter (rob@filmschoolrejects.com) on March 11, 2009

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Sam Raimi is no stranger to those of us here at FSR headquarters. We’ve been fans since he first unleashed the gore-laced pratfalls of Evil Dead II upon an unsuspecting populace, although we show our love for his work in different ways…. Fure for example has seventeen different worn (but unwashed) Ash t-shirts, Miller has an extremely tight pair of Spider-Man underoos signed by Raimi’s brother Ted, my desktop wallpaper is a glorious hi-res picture of Katie Holmes’ breasts from The Gift, MacGregor walks up and down the hallways wearing leather chaps and demanding she be called ‘The Lady’, and Abaius reportedly has a For Love of the Game poster above his bed. To each their own…

Point is, Raimi’s made some great movies. And while we’ll always be interested in any film he decides to work on, his few (and early) forays into horror have always been his most entertaining… which is why his upcoming return to the genre is so goddamn exciting. And now there’s an official trailer for Drag Me To Hell to feed our anticipation even more…

What do you think? The plot seems like a simple mash-up of Stephen King’s Thinner with a dash of real-world foreclosure crisis news, but the plot isn’t the thing here. It’s Raimi. And this trailer looks like vintage Raimi horror… gore, violence, kooky humor, and a chick flailing in the mud. Alison Lohman stars alongside Justin Long, David Paymer, and Lorna Raver as the crazy-ass gypsy lady.

Drag Me To Hell had a sneak preview earlier this year in LA, and the unofficial response was overwhelmingly positive. Some of us will hopefully get the chance to check out a work-in-progress print at this month’s SXSW Film Festival, and we’ll let you know if it lives up to the hype (or if it’s another Spider-Man 3). It opens nationwide May 29th.

Source: Yahoo

What do you think of the trailer? “You can give the curse away,” says the seer. So what are the odds the film ends with either David Paymer or the Mac guy getting dragged to hell?


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  • Hmm, I think she should have played a little bit of D&D and she would have known how to deal with a Lamia.
  • I'd give that curse away so damn fast.

    But yea, hopefully Sam has a trick up his sleeve, because if I was writing that movie in the the Third grade at the end Paymer would get dragged to hell and we'd have a cut to Alison Lohman sitting at what used to be his desk, being the new boss.
  • Adam likey. This should be a fun one.
  • I'm sure Raimi's return to Horror will be something to look forward to.
  • Emo Spider-Man
    Uncle Ben is dead, now Aunt May is losing her house, and she wants blood.

    I don't want to be quick to forgive Raimi for Spider-Man 3, but this has piqued my interest. Then again, "The Unborn" trailer did the same to me a few months ago. A May 29th release? What ever happened to horror films being released in October?
  • Braedee
    The difference between the unborn trailer and the atrocity of a movie was just unforgivable.
  • I love Alison Lohman
  • Chris
    Please, keep me strong. On one hand, I'd like to see this (even though it's nothing new) because the set up with the evil cutthroat mortgage stuff piqued my interest. But on the other, I've yet to see anything produced by Ghost House that was any good.
  • hage
    the best thing of the trailer is simply vintage Raimi horror… something that has been missing for awhile now. i m soo gonna catch this. even if it stinks.
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