Drag me to Hell

[heavenlysurfer]

Sam Raimi is back to his old tricks...this looks like a fun flick...looking forward to hearing some reviews...

[Juno Styles]

back to his old tricks? i hadnt checked his past on imdb but is he best known for something other than spiderman?

i know he was one of the producers of The Grudge.

this film reminds me of that old Stephen King film "Thinner" where the gypsy curses the dude and he has to give away the curse in order to get rid of it.

[Richmond Weems]

back to his old tricks? i hadnt checked his past on imdb but is he best known for something other than spiderman?

Yes.

[Slappynipsy]

back to his old tricks? i hadnt checked his past on imdb but is he best known for something other than spiderman?


Haha funny joke!

[cvolante]

I saw it at a midnight screening at SXSW and I was wide awake, screaming and laughing. It was pretty funny for a horror movie.

[Signal30]

back to his old tricks? i hadnt checked his past on imdb but is he best known for something other than spiderman?
Boy's been slummin' for the past few years.

Nice to have him back... hopefully.

[Slappynipsy]

Boy's been slummin' for the past few years.

Nice to have him back... hopefully.

I remember watching Spiderman 2 and at the hospital scene thinking "HOLY CRAP IT TURNED INTO A SAM RAMI MOVIE!" that scene is awesome. I don't think people realise what an impact he had on Japanese cinema, Miike and others cite him as a big influance.

[Terrance Mulloy]

Boy's been slummin' for the past few years.

Nice to have him back... hopefully.

I agree. I'm psyched for it.

[Biohazard]

Boy's been slummin' for the past few years.

A Simple Plan was excellent.

[Ben]

Drag Me to Hell ........is getting RAVE reviews ---

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/drag_me_to_hell/

This going to be magnificent cinematic experience.

[Biohazard]

Hope so.

But frankly, if Raimi had nothing to do with this film, I'd stay home and say "go to hell by yourself, movie".

[Terrance Mulloy]

A lot of people who have been lucky enough to catch pre-release screenings, are claiming it's one of the best horror movies in years.

Hope so.

[Biohazard]

A lot of people who have been lucky enough to catch pre-release screenings, are claiming it's one of the best horror movies in years.

Hope so.

Me too, but a horror film today can suck balls and still be the best, considering the genre has been dying since the 80's.

[prescribe22]

Me too, but a horror film today can suck balls and still be the best, considering the genre has been dying since the 80's.

Completely disagree with that.

[Typewriter]

I wish I didn't read the screenplay already.

[Biohazard]

Completely disagree with that.

What good horror came out in the past 10 or 20 years?

You can count the good films on one hand.

You can count the great films on one fist.

[Juno Styles]

Saw and the Grudge were pretty good horror flicks done within this decade. 28 Weeks Later was cool too.

[beerbeastredux]

Oh hell yeah! Sam Raimi back to his old tricks! I'm there with bells and an onion tied to my belt!

[Biohazard]

Saw and the Grudge were pretty good horror flicks

Even with the standards as low as they are, those films both stink so bad, I can smell them all the way in Pennsylvania.

[sherbetbizarre]

What good horror came out in the past 10 or 20 years?

Out of Hollywood?

The Others?

[ShaneBlackFan]

A Simple Plan was excellent.

Yes, my favourite Raimi film by far. :)

[snwrist]

The Descent
Session 9
The Machinist
The Others
The Blair Witch Project
Open Water
1408
Saw(first one only)
From Hell

...to name a few good horror movies of recently.

[Slappynipsy]

Open Water


Everyone hyped that movie to me and the whole film I was rooting for the sharks, talk about two unlikeable people.

[bed-and-bones]

The Descent
Session 9
The Machinist
The Others
The Blair Witch Project
Open Water
1408
Saw(first one only)
From Hell

...to name a few good horror movies of recently.


No.

[snwrist]

Yes.

[Juno Styles]

Even with the standards as low as they are, those films both stink so bad, I can smell them all the way in Pennsylvania.

lol, you are worse than me. so what films do you consider good in the horror genre? from ANY decade.

horror films today arent like how they were when movies like Poltergeist, Rosemary's Baby, etc were out and scared the sh*t out of you to the point you're having bad dreams. now it's just....it just is.

some of them are stil entertaining though, if they weren't, the ones i mentioned wouldn't have all made triple their production budget.

[Population17]

Yes.

yes... I 2nd that notion.

brad

[Population17]

I had a blast reading Drag me to hell!

I don't have anything intelligent to say about the story, or character arc(s), or blah blah blah technical stuff. I just had a lot of fun reading it.

brad

[Slappynipsy]

Good recent horror movies from the US


Fido
The Signal
Behind The Mask

[Naudikom]

The Descent
Cabin Fever
28 Days Later
Wolf Creek
The Orphanage
Shaun of the Dead
The Midnight Meat Train
Audition

[Slappynipsy]

The Descent
Cabin Fever
28 Days Later
Wolf Creek
The Orphanage
Shaun of the Dead
The Midnight Meat Train
Audition

I went with US films but outside Meat Train and Wolf Creek I agree with all these.

Audition is one of the best horror films, ever.

[Naudikom]

I'll admit the debateability of Meat Train, but I thought Wolf Creek was awesome.

Audition - that movie f***ed me up, man. I was not okay.

Also, forgot the French. High Tension and Inside.

[Population17]

I'll admit the debateability of Meat Train, but I thought Wolf Creek was awesome.

Audition - that movie f***ed me up, man. I was not okay.

Also, forgot the French. High Tension and Inside.

Audition was cool.

High Tension was sorta garbage... I mean.. wtf? Do we not care about a storyline anymore as long as you have an eff'd up scene or two?

whatev....

That movie made it hard for me to be proud to be a horror fan...

brad

[snwrist]

Midnight Meat Train was interesting. Loved the ending. Overall, I felt the movie was just OK, but I admired it for its overall atmosphere and what it was aiming to do. For me though, it never came together well enough.

JOY RIDE...

...if you consider it horror also that needs to be added to the list. This is very negotiable, genre-wise, and it may fit better in the straight thriller canon. But it definitely has horror elements.

[Slappynipsy]

I'll also add two movies that I debate with people a lot, the original Final Destination (some of the best death scenes ever) and Silent Hill... while the movie overall isn't that great that set design is so amazing and creates such an amazing mood for the film I think it's a shame it's not better thought of...

I thought Meat Train had it's moments but overall I found it disappointing.

High Tension's ending made the film fall apart and soured me to the whole thing and I thought Wolf Creek was just silly, but a lot of people disagree so it's probablly just me..

[qualitycontrol]

I saw this on Tuesday. Don't think I posted about it. It is pretty good, not up there with any of the Evil Dead movies in my opinion, but pretty good. My biggest problem is it relies way too much on those "loud noise" scares but other than that, I found this pretty scary and it had a good balance of humor (like Evil Dead movies.) If you like Sam Raimi, I think this is up your alley.

[Biohazard]

so what films do you consider good in the horror genre? from ANY decade.

Jaws
Psycho
The Shining
Halloween
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Night of the Living Dead
Rosemary's Baby
The Exorcist
Alien

and the only remake on the list:

The Thing

[Madbandit]

back to his old tricks? i hadnt checked his past on imdb but is he best known for something other than spiderman?

i know he was one of the producers of The Grudge.

this film reminds me of that old Stephen King film "Thinner" where the gypsy curses the dude and he has to give away the curse in order to get rid of it.


Except for Joe Mantegna as a mobster, that film was hard to get through.

Oh yeah, Raimi directed the cult trilogy "The Evil Dead",,starring high school chum Bruce Campbell as Ash, a wacky hero with a chainsaw for a right arm.

"Groovy!"

[roscoegino]

I always liked Lohman (WHITE OLEANDER, MATCHSTICK MEN) so I will see.

[Population17]

High Tension's ending made the film fall apart and soured me to the whole thing and I thought Wolf Creek was just silly, but a lot of people disagree so it's probablly just me..

No it's not. :)

I'm right there with ya.

brad

[The Mad Dog]

I hated this movie.

[ShaneBlackFan]

I hated this movie.

Why?

[The Mad Dog]

Why?

I went in wanting a horror movie, but the over the top comedy which wasn't funny, took me out of it. I'm reading comments on other message boards of how terrified people were and I'm scratching my head thinking really?

[The_Opus_Fuller]

I went in wanting a horror movie, but the over the top comedy which wasn't funny, took me out of it. I'm reading comments on other message boards of how terrified people were and I'm scratching my head thinking really?

Maybe that's the problem with people. Raimi has a specific style when it comes to horror films. If you watch any of the Evil Dead films you can see that his style is no different in Drag Me To Hell. Of course in my opinion, the Evil Dead films were a little more experimental with camera angles and framing shots where DMTH was a little more mainstream.

Either or, I thought this movie was great. I will gladly be purchasing this on BD when it's released.

Nice job, Raimi!

[loopdesign]

A Simple Plan was excellent.

Agreed. His other stuff seems to lapse into parody for me. Emo Parker (and song and dance Parker) killed the Spidey franchise for me. I was chuckling at the contact lens gypsy scene in the DM2H trailer. Soooo eighties. Having said that, it's at 94% on RT -- so what do I know (?!)

[loopdesign]

Midnight Meat Train was interesting. Loved the ending. Overall, I felt the movie was just OK, but I admired it for its overall atmosphere and what it was aiming to do. For me though, it never came together well enough.

JOY RIDE...

...if you consider it horror also that needs to be added to the list. This is very negotiable, genre-wise, and it may fit better in the straight thriller canon. But it definitely has horror elements.

Absolutely loved it. J.J. Abrams is the f-in man.

[loopdesign]

Compared to Alien, The Thing, Jaws and Halloween, none of these REALLY hold up ... but I think the list is the best of the genre in RECENT years.

28 Days Later
The Descent
Quarantine
The Orphanage
The Strangers
Haute Tension
Wolf Creek
Them

[Slappynipsy]

28 Days Later


Speak of the 28 Days films, I think 28 Weeks has one of the best openings.

[loopdesign]

Speak of the 28 Days films, I think 28 Weeks has one of the best openings.

Agreed. Damn good. So good in fact, that I almost wished they had kept the film as a "cabin in the woods" scenario, as opposed to the whole medical / military / quarantine scenario.

Having said that, I suppose the whole "franchise" idea (Days -- Weeks -- Months -- Years) is upping the stakes and expanding scale with each film, so I can see what they were going for.

[Knaight]

Saw DRAG ME TO HELL today and loved it. Gross-out humor and some legitimate scares = a great time at the movies.

As far as "the list" goes, I'm surprised no one mentioned THE RING. Remake or not, it definitely creeped me out.

As far as horrors for any decade, what about SCREAM? Always thought that was an inventive take on the slasher genre.

[Juno Styles]

glad i read the comments about the humor mixed in with this movie. if it's as funny as spider man 3, especially when he started dancing, i'll wait for dvd. :|

[Raw_and_Vital]

No. I would not clump Drag Me To Hell humor with spiderman 3 humor.. To be honest, I think Raimi was on drugs when he did spiderman 3...

Drag Me To Hell humor is like the Evil Dead Trilogy humor.

It's worth seeing in theaters. For people that didn't like this movie, your head needs checked!!!

[snwrist]

Saw it last night. Solid movie-funny, relatively scary, good story...not for everyone's tastes but, as already mentioned, if you like Raimi, you'll like it.

[Slappynipsy]

No. I would not clump Drag Me To Hell humor with spiderman 3 humor.. To be honest, I think Raimi was on drugs when he did spiderman 3...

Drag Me To Hell humor is like the Evil Dead Trilogy humor.

It's worth seeing in theaters. For people that didn't like this movie, your head needs checked!!!

I remember him hating Venom as a character and not wanting to do the film, maybe he was trying to get out of it?

[jboffer]

Jaws
Psycho
The Shining
Halloween
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Night of the Living Dead
Rosemary's Baby
The Exorcist
Alien

and the only remake on the list:

The Thing

Man, I have to say, I find it really hard to believe that a lot of those movies stand up today. Not even exaggerating, I think The Shining, Halloween and The Exorcist are among the very worst things I've ever seen. The latter two are more like comedies watching them now.

And I love Alien, but it's more of a sci-fi thriller, not horror.

[Raw_and_Vital]

first off, there is only one true Sci-Fi movie... It's called 2001: A Space Odyssey.

edit... Followed by Logan's Run and Silent Running!

secondly, Slappy. I'm not sure. I thought that was just a cover so noone would suspect he was doing venom... Either or, I enjoyed Spiderman 3 for the most part. I'm most likely in denial though!

And third. I love those horror movies listed... But come on, we all know the best horror movie is, Don't Look Now!

[Biohazard]

Man, I have to say, I find it really hard to believe that a lot of those movies stand up today. Not even exaggerating, I think The Shining, Halloween and The Exorcist are among the very worst things I've ever seen. The latter two are more like comedies watching them now.

And there's that humor folks were just talking about...

What is YOUR idea of the top 10 horror films?

1 - Saw?
2 - Ghost Ship?

Please, I'm begging you to reply honestly.

[Raw_and_Vital]

I'll chime in with my top 10...

1. The Uninvited.
2. The Eye (remake)
3. .....

For real though...

Halloween was amazing, the atmosphere this movie brings... sigh... we just don't get that these days with movies! ya know.

The Shining, come on. Kubrick was a genius. So was his movies... nuff said!

[Biohazard]

Kubrick was a genius. So was his movies...

So were (or more appropriately, are) his movies.

Christ, we're writers.

Sorry. Just had to do it.

Continue...

PS: The Eye remake is genius. Whoever came up with the idea to make a bad version of a good film and cast a terrible actress in the lead role...whoever that person is actually convinced other people that it was a good idea!

That man has bridges for sale in New York, by the way.

[snwrist]

THE EYE was the second worst movie of 2008...

...right behind 88 MINUTES.

[Raw_and_Vital]

Eh, I'm a writer but I never said I was a good one! :) Besides, I need to keep those editors in business.

No, I was kidding about THE EYE and THE UNINVITED... I was being sarcastic...

Bio, let's write a quick horror spec and show 'em how it's done!

[Slappynipsy]

So were (or more appropriately, are) his movies.

Christ, we're writers.

Sorry. Just had to do it.

Continue...

PS: The Eye remake is genius. Whoever came up with the idea to make a bad version of a good film and cast a terrible actress in the lead role...whoever that person is actually convinced other people that it was a good idea!

That man has bridges for sale in New York, by the way.

The Eye Remake, One Missed Called Remake and Pulse Remake were all so-bad-its-good fun to watch. Especially since I enjoyed all the original films... I'd all throw Shutter (remake) on that list but I didn't think the original was all that great to start with.

[MarkCSmith]

I found it hilarious. Much in the vein of the Evil Dead movies, poking fun at the horror genre with some decent genuine scares.

[wcmartell]

Great funhouse ride. A zillion jump moments, some nice suspense whenever she's in the house alone, funny-dread when she's in public and you just know something weird is going to happen, and lots of sick humor. Oh, and the most charismatic and handsome goat ever put on film.

I laughed.

- Bill

[instant_karma]

I liked this a lot. The fight scene in the car was great. And yeah, the goat was a scene stealer. Every time it was in the frame, it was what I was most drawn to.