RE: Drag me to Hell (film): Not great, but entertaining to fans of Raimi
Honestly, I do not understand how you can take this film seriously. When I saw it for the first time, I could not understand the first minute is it such a bad horror film or is it so good and thin banter? And I stopped on the second option in the end.
Indeed, as a horror film this movie is simply disgusting. If you watch it in this way, you can be very confused and disappointed by the "banal" plot, fountains of "unnatural" blood, sucking and constantly tearing out the hair of the main heroine of the old woman, a fly buzzing in the stomach, a talking goat and much more. But if you take it as a thrash with a view to irony over mystical horror films, then you get a completely different picture. And its beauty is that it is made so finely that not everyone realizes this side, but if they realize, they are delighted.
It may seem that the main character is too simple. Someone impresses the image of the old woman, who turned out very colorful. The psychic behaves very typically for such films. Too disgusting Chinese colleague? - Yes! Even the plot is too trivial. And on top of all this easy busting are wound "unnatural", but, it must be admitted, very qualitatively made special effects.
Just the beauty of the film is that it is made very high quality for regular films of the "B" category.
And do not forget about morality - and it is in this movie! A complex ethical choice between career and human compassion ...