Drag Me to Hell (2009) - Didn't Give Us a Happy Ending - RECAP

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I didn´t knew what to think, just another horror movie like many others but everything change when I realized that Sam Raimi was the director because you know he is good in this kind of movies after all he gave us the Evil Dead movies and his Spider Man trilogy even though it had mix reactions I still believe the guy never really made a bad movie. Drag Me To Hell is a movie of 2009 and as I mention before it supposed to be a horror movie but while watching it I discovered that also mixed dark comedy and as usual it can come really good or just a totally mess, not everyone will love that idea but for me it turned out to be really fun, when you are watching an horror scene it just jump out something funny and that comedy is added to a moment of tension doing a good combination, this is not a movie that all the family will enjoy probably will hate certain scenes thinking that hey that stupid and also the end of it could be predictable but Raimi made it work.

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1127180/
Platform: TUBI

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The main character is Christine Brown she works as a loan officer in Los Angeles and she is desperate to get promoted to assistant manager and she has time working for that position so she believe she must get it but she is not the only one working hard for that position there is a new guy name Stu who is a kiss ass, those two are in a silence fight and is worst when the boss keeps giving her advice that must be tougher if she wants to be promoted suddenly that day is going to get worst because she received an elderly gypsy woman named Mrs Gan she was requesting a third extension on her mortgage payment, the boss left the to Christine and she denied the request of the old woman, man that was her worst decision because that old lady just went crazy because she felt humiliated and as a gypsy decided to curse Christine, since that day the life of Christine was a completely hell. Since that premise you think well why she didnt help the lady, is an old woman give her a last time but can see that the selfishness of Christine put her on that position, other people might think that Christine did what was correct because after all the lady already had two payment extension and thats not eve the point, we are humans and should help each other because in the case of Chrstine you might even run the chance of getting curse, probably she didnt give it enough though, although this is just a movie so I dont want to exagerate.

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I know that many people think well if it is an horror movie it only should have that tone but in this case Raimi take a risk with this movie because not only show us the horror, he also include some comedy in specific moments without taking the seriousness in the scene sounds like confusing but is just something different that belongs to this director and you can see in a scene where the protagonist called Christine is fighting with Mrs Gan in the parking, this scene is one that demonstrate the point of horror with comedy because when they are fighting the old lady looks creepy but theres a moment that something hit her on the head and her eyes come out like when Bugs Bunny used to see the beautiful Lola Bunny its surreal and funny at the the same time and that´s the moment where horror break just for a second and the drama return as soon you see the face of Christine showing that she is terrify for what is happening. Something else that is like a signature of this director is a car, the 1973 Delta 88 which has appeared in pretty much every movie he has made, its like his good luck charm and seeing it again in this movie was a nice touch for longtime followers of his work.

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Now lets talk a bit about the cast before we warp this one up, in Drag Me to Hell the cast was perfect Alison Lohman plays Christine and she made a great job, first showing us a person with ambitions that doesn´t care in denied a loan to a poor old woman to succeed in her carrier also in every scene where she is attacked by the demon that is falling her it feels real the way that she was suffering with all those attacks changing her from a control, secure woman to a paranoid and scare woman who knows that her life will end soon, her boyfriend Clay was play by Justin Long, he does what suppose support her girlfriend in every possible way even though that he was starting to think that she was a little crazy just because he doesn´t believe in any paranormal thing, his role is not demanding, not special but work for what was created and is enough but the star of this horror comedy movie is the actress Laura Raver who plays Mrs Gan, the gypsy woman that curse Christine, she take seriously her role as fragile old lady first but later as this lunatic woman with who shouldn't have been messed with. I really felt sorry for Christine shit knowing that something was hunting here and attack her in every moment possible, was sad but good for the movie and thats why I appreciate the practical effects because she can feel Christine pain on those attack that she received of the demon also the CGI was well worked.

Towards the end of the movie Christine work really hard trying to end the curse that is on her you really believe or better say the director make you believe that she succeeded but here comes the twist and for other the disappointment, NO, she didn´t accomplish anything, but she didn´t know it yet, she was so happy thinking that everything was finally done when something was give back to her and finally the curse is completed. At this point many people will say dam she worked so hard for nothing, everything she did was useless so what was the point for all her effort if she will not make it but other will think that was brilliant that she didn´t make it, she has to pay for what she did, for be greedy and selfish that was her destiny. If you ask me if I like the end well Im happy with it, I really like that she didn´t break her curse because we always expect that the end is a happy one, that she will be the hero who defeat the evil and now is going to live a magic life with her perfect boyfriend and Raimi show us a little bit of that, that everything was solve but Thanks God that it didn´t happen, as I said I didn´t care which end Raimi decided to show us, if the pink one or the dark one that at the end was the one he chose I will be glad with either of them but I prefer the sad one, the dark one because life is though and many people feel that are living a real hell and unfortunately sometime theres no way out but this movie make you think that for one wrong action you make everything in your life can go dark thats why think before acting, make good, be a good person for not being drag to Hell, now I am philosophical hahaha. The truth is that Drag Me to Hell is a good movie, Raimi really take the risk with the end, he play well his cards and show one more time with this movie that he is still a master of horror and humor, not a ground breaking movie but a good one time watch for sure, 6.5 will do enough for this movie.