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DRAG ME TO HELL Trailer Online!!! Sam Raimi Curses The Banking Industry!!!
Beaks here...
It appears those worries regarding DRAG ME TO HELL's marketability were completely unfounded. I mean, what could possibly be more enticing in 2009 than a horror film in which a bank employee gets cursed for not granting a helpless old gypsy woman an extension on her mortgage? Granted, it's difficult to empathize with gypsies, but the cold, corrupt heart of the banking industry is a far greater evil than someone who casts spells and showers once every Winter Olympics.
So good on Sam Raimi for literally giving the plundering bastards hell with his much anticipated return to horror. Quint, Ryan Rotten and half the internet have already raved over Raimi's latest, and many others will be chiming in when DRAG ME TO HELL screens at SXSW next week. I wish I was heading out to Austin to check it out for myself, but I'm not (*sniffle*), so I'll just have to content myself with this expertly-cut trailer posted at Yahoo! Movies.
Though the film is PG-13, that doesn't seem to have kept Raimi from cutting loose with his signature "spook-a-blast" style (freeze-frame at 1.31). All that's missing is a smirking, wisecracking Bruce Campbell. That said, it's always a pleasure to see Hollywood sex god David Paymer steaming up the screen. And Allison Lohman ain't hard on the ol' peepers neither! It's just... she wasn't in CHILL FACTOR.
DRAG ME TO HELL opens wide on May 29th.
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Booyah! Oh, and the flick looks good. Love me some Raimi. And bite me, Harry, on the attacks on the "banking industry."
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Maybe.
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Looks old school I like it.
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On your mom! Wow, I am B-O-R-E-D!
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Your mom! What's up Triplett!
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On your mom! Fuck! Can't wait for ol' Sam to kick my ass and "drag me to hell!"
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Justin Long?
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This film looks a bit crap.
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...since I've seen even a teaser for a horror movie that got my blood going. And since it's been forever since Sam has done any horror, I'm pretty sure it's been building up inside him ready to explode, and this looks like the perfect fallout.
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Proceed with caution. Raimi lost his mind on Spiderman 2.
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You didn't notice that Beaks wrote the article...not Harry. Good job! The movie doesn't look that good...and Ivan co-wrote it so....no.
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If it was regular folks trafficking Wall Street bankers and CEOs.
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looks fun!
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I dont know, it looks ok, but maybe kinda average.
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First of all let me say the bank already gave that woman two extensions. Why should she get a third? I hate banks and fat cats as much as anyone but two extensions is pretty nice. And is taking your anger out on a worker bee really fair?
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(All over your mom's) CUNT. Fuck that bitch!
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What it feels like to fuck Judge Dredd's mom.
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I want some of that!
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Oh wait, someone beat me to it. But yeah, not really blown away by this. :(
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Is there a good way to pronounce that abbreviation? I am lazy and would appreciate something that sounds shorter than the actual name it abbreviates. If I have to enunciate all the letters that's an alarming six syllables while the original name is only four.
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Is the written abbreviation (saving the typing). There is no verbal abbreviation.
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Please I just want one "I'll swallow your soul"
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Without going into details, this trailer reveals far more than you want to know going in. Lots of third-act spoilerage including some stuff that has no business being in a trailer. Be warned.
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just got a boner.
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Oh, I must have missed the part in the trailer where she runs over the gypsy with her car and then she starts losing weight until she dies.
Other than a 'gypsy curse' I don't really see the similarities.
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Seriously. I watched that scene in the trailer and couldn'T think anything else than: "Wasn't Ted available? What was he doing?"
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VERY VERY disappointed by this. like, what makes this better than any of the other crap pg13 horror films coming out lately? Doesn't look like much. Lame.
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that's rough stuff...
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Is it me or Lohman's acting a bit rough in this? I'm finding it distracting...
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That means nothing to me...the first two Evil Dead films are waaaaaaaaayyyyyyy better than Army...Army was silly... also, genius, Ivan wrote Spiderman 3...so Fuck You, sir.
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before all the hate comes. I like Army of Darkness, it's funny and quotable and such, but no way in hell is it better than the first one. I like horror movies to be scary...not funny.
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I usually say, "South by" as short for SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST. I always thought SXSW stood for SeXy SWinger!
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Oh, i got all excited then.Fuck you David Paymer for not being the greatest black President in the history of the United States.
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I think it's going to be good.
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Yeah very cleaver...
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You mean SXSW doesn't mean that???
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eff that i wanna see lohman totally naked and ya, this is way too much like thinner
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Mar 11, 2009 5:23:58 PM CDT
WHERES THE POINTLESS DANCE SCENE!?!?!
by supercowbell4therequestformorecowbell
WHERE?!?!?!
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Wow, looks fucking passably entertaining on a rainy afternoon.
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I don't want a fucking tame PG-13 teen fest! There is a huge trend of PG-13 horror movies that started with The Ring. They make a but-load of money from the middle and high schoolers. fuck that shit!
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nothing interesting here
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I can only assume that's a horror reference as in "I killed your mom with a cleaver." I know that you would *NEVER* misspell "clever." :) I'm sure, however, that I'm just as "cleaver" as "The Bicycle Sharer = cunt," right?
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hey venom... wanna team up?
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everyone would think this looked terrible, and it kind of does.
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Guess some shit went down on the way out of the bank.
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Doesn't look half as good as Ghost Ship. You think Sam would make a movie better then all those other Ghost House ones, but doesn't look like it.
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That wasn't his production company. Thats Micheal Bay's. Anyway doesn't look as good as 30 Days of Night then, looks like Boogeyman and that movie suck diddily ucked.
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Looking forward to it, although, the PG-13 rating is extremely disappointing.
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Besides Evil Dead II, and A Simple Plan, what the fuck have you done for me, Raimi? Spiderman 3? FUCK YOU. Spiderman 2, besides the Doc Oc operating table? FUCK YOU. Spiderman? Eh. The Gift? Fucking pretentious piece of shit. For Love Of The Game? Ditto. Darkman? Eh. Evil Dead I? SUCKED. Yeah assholes, I said it. It's an unrefined amateurish mess, with horrible acting, a stupid fucking story (which Drag Me To Hell looks to be copying) and God fucking awful camera work... I hear Crimewave is great though.
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"cause they ain't people" That last part I read between the lines.
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I thought all modern horror movies had to have a Creepy Little Girl. This could be the start of a new era...
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would be the scariest thing to face. Just imagine you cross pollinate the sneakiness of a gypsy or pikey (Brad Pitt in Snatch)... with a scummy ambulance chasing lie through his teeth lawyer. Hell make him a her and you've got the most coniving person on the planet, or the devil... I'm sorry, I just hate women.
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It doesn't look that way, and I don't think she's a natural blonde either.
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Remember when he was a B movie director who made some GOOD movies? Remember when he made Darkman and we were all thinking that this mans genius had been wasted on Darkman, his first big budget film?
This fucker gave us Spiderman...possibly the most faithful adaptation and the best superhero movie to date. Never mind what he had to do because of the "suits" afterwards..this may be another Crimewave, but at least he's doing what he wants. -
a horror film! that doesnt look shit! and not full of dull as dishwater gore-gasms. i hate that rami made me not love him anymore with spider-man 3.... but this may patch up our relationship nicely
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Beyond Raimi being the director, I can't see what there is to be excited about. Even then, he hasn't made a good horror film in 22 years, and that sure as fuck wasn't PG-13.
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Mar 11, 2009 7:38:21 PM CDT
SAM RAIMI AND IVAN RAIMI WROTE THIS, THEY ALSO WROTE......
by 1978creepythinman
Army of Darkness and Spider-man 3. Those movies were shit. Drag Me To Hell will be shit. That is all.
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on May 29th, 2009! Holy shit I am officially more than stoked, superstoked even, for this movie now!
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Yeah, it's not a shot for shot rip off or anything I'll grant you that. But come on, the set up is even tonally similar only here more absurd, and at least making someone get thinner was an interesting concept as opposed to what is probably the 4th or 5th seance scene in the last... year and a half. If this were a slasher film or something maybe I'd let it slide for the formulaic similarity to thinner (white relatively well-off person does the poor ignorant borderline racistly (too tired to care that that's not a word) depicted gypsy through the corrupt system), though I'd probably care even less to see it, but do we need a gypsy curse sub-genre? And if there was going to be one, could it be a little more interesting a set up? Say what you will, maybe there is a good film in this, but the claim that this trailer shows how unfounded it is to say this film isn't marketable... that be bullshit. The film looks shitty. Sorry. I was hoping for more of something like The Gift I guess.
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and the "You can give the curse away" bit was also very Thinneresque. But I'm done.
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as Raimi tends to be hit and miss with me
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Didn't you see the clip that ran at Fuckin San Diego Comic Con? That shit was fuckin awesome, and Evil Dead funny.
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....fuck, I don't need to defend that film. Millions can.
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for the gypsy against the stingy bankers, except for the fact that our current economic crisis was caused by those "nice" and "generous" bankers saying yes way too often to people who reasonably couldn't pay back their loans. If anything, given what's going on in the world today, the bankers who say no would look like the good guys. If more of them had said no, we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place.
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Even though Bruce Campbell isn't in it, does this movie at least take place within the "Evil Dead Universe"? Like, will we get to see an S-Mart in the background of a shot or two? After all, those creatures sure looked like something out of Army of Darkness, only upgraded!
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40ish, but buff and young looking; likes fencing, water sports and dragons; looking for casual SXSW in Austin next week.
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I'm a little concerned about the PG-13 rating, though. We'll see...
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is NOT rated PG-13. period. but i did like DARKMAN, so maybe this will be passable. can't be worse than most of the garbage i've seen lately (DEATH PROOF, i'm looking at you)
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It's completely possible to make a good, creepy suspense/horror piece with a PG-13. The early John Carpenter movies (The Thing excepted) would easilly slide by on a PG-13 rating these days.
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Idiot troll.
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It's very difficult to pull off a horror movie now that is rated PG-13. Yes, I think the Ringu remake did an exceptional job at it and some of my favorite horror movies by today's standards could possibly even flirt with PG (Carnival of Souls) but that's not the point. The beauty of R is the sense that nearly ANYTHING can happen. It's not the showing of gore that is usually so great as the threat of seeing something terrible. At the risk of spoiling it, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is one of the best horror films of the decade because of the fear that at any moment, this could get seriously fucked up. Had it been PG-13, it would not have had that tension. PG-13 just makes me feel safe. With extremely rare exception, the rating just makes you know its going to be okay, that no one is going to be fucked up. Feeling safe is the last thing you should feel in a horror film, unless he are going to shatter that sense of security with something unexpected (like the jaw scene in The Orphanage)... which again, is just not easy to pull off in PG-13.
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This movie needs Ash.
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Gore in and of itself is not scary. I like gory horror movies, sure, but that alone is not enough to scare me. The 70's Invasion Of The Body Snatchers is scary as fuck and it's PG (probably a PG-13 today, if you removed the brief topless shots).
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Yes, a comedy horror film from Sam is not something I'm against, and if this is one then great. The problem is that the trailer is not clear that this is one (to me). Ok, the staple in the head is a very nice hint, and I'm warming up to that, but overall it looks like it could just as easily, more so even, just be a bad movie. Not a funny ha-ha Evil Dead bad movie that is actually brilliant, but more a off kilter stiff acted movie that is taking a lot from other... not even necessarily better films (it's bad when you are ripping off the cheesy Silent Hill ash children clawing at Radha Mitchell scene). The add campaign suggests that this is some kind of serious return to horror and the title alone had visions of something much more darker when I first heard it a year or so ago. The Gift was pretty damn good, and the thought of him doing something worthy of that kind of name.... Yeah. I'll admit that I could be turned around to like this, but the trailer is sending mixed signals. If it's a good goofy Raimi film, then it is a seriously shitty trailer.
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to recreate her sassy character in "Smart People?"
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I don't even give half a shit.
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This looks as shitty as those horrible Spider-Man movies. Too bad, Raimi used to be cool.
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Mar 12, 2009 12:41:24 AM CDT
If not for Sam Raimi, I'd plunker this down with The Unborn and
by sonnyfern
Seriously, there's nothing in this concept that we really haven't seen before...but it is Raimi so I have faith. But the trailer didn't excite me at all..
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THIS LOOKS SICK. I am down.
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This is looking like weak sauce. Weak Mac flavored sauce. Justin Long cannot be cast in a horror movie, any fear I might feel during this movie would instantly evaporate upon seeing that "affable and cute nerd". Fuck that guy.
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Up there with the first SAW. Gonna be some fun.
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Ultra-FUCK-U-la to every stinking pin dicked hater on this thread..
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You would think being dragged to hell would be a R rated experience.
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I'm glad she's finally been given a high profile starring role.
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All 3 of the leads made that film
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another PG-13 supernatural thriller. This thing is GUARANTEED to make at least 2 million. That's surely the best, safest career path, right?
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but i want 'mr hello', god's bus driver go to hell
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Is basically what happened to Aunt May in Spiderman 2. I guess if she didn't have parker there, she too would have gone daemon dark on that teller prick. BTW, great trailer; Raimi still has it.
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...Sam Raimi has made another horror movie!! Thats dope!
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Though Spidey 3 sucked HARD, this is a horro movie so it's like his element so I'm giving Sam the benefit of the doubt. Looks small scale.
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Seriously. Who the fuck could possibly want to see this? By the end of the trailer I started thinking the first half, where nothing happens, was good.
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BUT WAS DRAGGED NOT TO HELL INSTEAD...
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Mar 12, 2009 8:38:56 AM CDT
SAM PLEASE GIVE SPIDEY TO OTHER PPL FOR A NEW AND FRESH TAKE ON
by vitter
NO NEED OF ORIGIN ETC, COULD BE ANOTHER POINT IN THE LIFE OF SPIDEY, MAYBE IN HIS ADULTHOOD, NO MENTIONING OF TOBY MCGAYRE, JUST A NEW SPIDEY ADVENTURE WITH A COOL PETER AS IT SHOULD BE AND A SMARTASS SPIDEY ETC. THIRD INSTALLMENT WAS PURE SHIT, AND IT MEANS WE NEED A DIFFERENT DIRECTION, DIFFERENT CREW, ACTORS, A NEW TAKE...MAYBE YOU CAN PRODUCE?
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Mr. Raimi? Why not eat own pie? After Spider Man 3 you should die clean. Yeah weak sauce dude. Best to do Evil Dead 4. Is anybody out there working on getting Trick R' Treat a distribution deal?!?
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Raimi is back.
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Didn't the banking crisis occur because lenders made too many bad loans to unqualified borrowers? The banker in this story is a hero. And hence completely unrealistic. A better story would be the renter that ends up paying for the gypsy's house and goes on a rampage.
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is more interested in catering to his PG-13 Spidey audience than real horror fans. Well he's going to need those Spidey fans to help this dud. When will these hollywood douche bags learn rated PG-13 horror films are lame and not scary at all. Watch the Exorcist and take lessons Raimi!
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Otherwise its a pretty MEH trailer and a pretty tired premise.
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Mar 12, 2009 1:28:00 PM CDT
She can curse you to Hell, but can't scare up some lotto numbers
by nozoki
Why do gypsies that have the power to do this kind of hardcore demon summoning always seem to have financial troubles?
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For fans of Skeleton Key and the Prom Night remake.
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when i post something it doesnt show up?!?!?!
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With Spiderman 4. Never before has one director helmed a franchise for so long. I wonder if he will continue what he was doing in the first two spideys or if may try a different tone and feel for the series.
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PG-13...I don't know about this.
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Here in Austin, we call it "South-by". Sorry if I'm not the first, but I saw a question I knew the answer to and wanted to be the first to answer it. Cause I'm motivated like that.
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Well, Thinner rules! "You know as much about justice as I know about turbine engines-now take your fucking curse off me!" "He may have been a mook, but he was my mook! Richie the Hammer!" "Oh, was I giving myself a blowjob just then?" Robert John Burke, wherever you are, you are the SHIT!!!
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And what the hell is wrong with 'Crimewave'? What an utterly batshit-crazy fun movie! Written by the Coens and directed by Sam and you don't like it? God, I'm starting to feel like Anti-Venom in here. "Maybe I'm just a guy who hates heels."
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and their evil/ignorant/communist friends in ACORN force banks to give loans to homeless gypsies who can't afford to make house payments....heh-heh...
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Talk about toxic assets!
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I'm excited!
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Is PG-13? Fuck off Sam, you sold out.
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A great horror movie is defined by a good story, not because it went through 10 gallons of fake blood, depicted multiple up close decapitations and showed endless shots of naked tits and ass. If Rami can make this movie entraining, it will be a HUGE improvement over the numerous R rated cluster fuck movies/direct to videos thats been released. Its any wonder good horror movies are made anymore. It's hard for a movie to properly entertain when pure cynicism ruins any chance from start. If the wardrobe, method acting, death scenes, music, or story isn't PERFECT then few give it the time of day. Do you know why the horror classics work? Because we were not consumed by every damn detail of the movie. We didn't care if the priest was recanting the chant in perfect Latin or if the shark looked exactly real. We wanted to be entertained and for 2 hours, we got our money's worth. A Horror movie need only be minimally credible to be given a shot. The pg-13 of today is not the one first instituted. Disturbia. Shun of the Dead. The Others. Jaws. What lies beneath. Poltergeist.
Seriously, how many horror classics would be relabled pg-13 under the current criterias?
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