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Drag Me to Hell

Promotional poster
Directed by Sam Raimi
Produced by Grant Curtis
Sam Raimi
Robert G. Tapert
Associate Producer:
Ivan Raimi
Co-Producer:
Cristen Carr Strubbe
Executive Producer:
Joshua Donen
Joseph Drake
Nathan Kahane
Written by Sam Raimi
Ivan Raimi
Starring Alison Lohman
Justin Long
Lorna Raver
Dileep Rao
Adriana Barraza
David Paymer
Reggie Lee
Music by Christopher Young
Cinematography Peter Deming
Editing by Bob Murawski
Studio Ghost House Pictures
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) May 29, 2009
Running time 99 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $30,000,000
Gross revenue $86,117,189[1]

Drag Me to Hell is a 2009 horror film, directed by Sam Raimi, with a screenplay by Sam Raimi and Ivan Raimi. The plot revolves around loan officer Christine Brown (Alison Lohman), who tries to impress her boss by refusing to extend a loan to a gypsy woman by the name of Mrs. Ganush (Lorna Raver). In retaliation, Ganush places a curse on Christine which, after three days of ever escalating torment, will plunge her into the depths of Hell to burn for eternity.

Raimi wrote Drag Me to Hell before he had worked on the Spider-Man films. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was released to huge critical acclaim on its release, and was a box office success, so far making $80 million worldwide, against a $30 million budget.

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[edit] Plot

In 1969 Pasadena, California, a young Spanish couple rush to the mansion of wealthy medium Shaun San Dena (Flor de Maria Chahua). Their son had stolen a necklace from a wagon of gypsies three days prior, and has been complaining about seeing and hearing monsters. San Dena tries to help the boy in a seance, but she and the boy's parents are attacked by an unseen force. The boy is grabbed by demons and pulled into Hell in front of San Dena.

In 2009 Los Angeles, California, bank loan officer Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) hopes to be promoted to assistant manager over her co-worker Stu Rubin (Reggie Lee). Her boss, Jim Jacks (David Paymer), advises her to demonstrate that she can make difficult decisions to get this job. Christine is constantly thwarted by Stu, who attempts to portray Christine as incompetent to Mr. Jacks. Christine is visited at the bank by an elderly gypsy woman named Sylvia Ganush (Lorna Raver) who asks for a third extension on her overdue mortgage payment. Mr. Jacks replies by stating that Ganush was already given two extensions and that she might have to be evicted. Christine struggles whether to deny Mrs. Ganush the extension so she can be promoted or to give her the extension, allowing Stu to be awarded with it. To prove herself to Mr. Jacks, Christine denies Ganush the extension. Ganush resorts to begging for help and complains bitterly about being humiliated when Christine calls for security. Security guards escort Ganush out with Mr. Jacks complimenting Christine on how she handled the situation. He later compliments her work on the McPherson loan, angering Stu.

Upon leaving the bank, Christine is attacked in her car by Ganush. After a violent struggle, Ganush removes a button from Christine's coat and uses it to place a curse on her. Later, Christine's boyfriend, Clay Dalton (Justin Long), tries to comfort her. They pass a fortune teller's store, where they meet the fortune teller Rham Jas (Dileep Rao), who tells Christine that she is being haunted by a dark spirit. Alone at home, Christine is attacked by the spirit, causing minor injuries, and has dreams about Mrs. Ganush attacking her in bed. At work the next day, she has a projectile nosebleed, soaking a horrified Mr. Jacks in blood. Stu later steals the McPherson loan. Christine then tries to find Ganush at the home of her granddaughter Ilenka Ganush (Bojana Novakovic). Christine learns that Ganush died the previous night, and Ilenka is in the process of holding a memorial service for her. Christine accidentally falls on top of the corpse, causing the table to break and the body to roll on top of her and embalm fluid to pour over her face. Angered, Ilenka says, "You deserve everything that is coming to you."

Christine returns to Rham Jas, who explains that the spirit haunting her is a powerful demon called the Lamia that will torment her for three days before taking her to Hell. Rham Jas suggests a sacrifice to appease the demon, but Christine at first disagrees. But the next day, the Lamia enters her house and thrashes her around her bedroom. Desperate to stop the attacks, Christine kills her pet kitten. At a dinner party with Clay and his parents, Christine is still tormented by the Lamia, which frightens the Daltons.

Christine returns to Rham Jas, angered by the fact that the Lamia wouldn't be stopped after sacrificing the cat, causing her to doubt him. Rham Jas begs her to trust him longer, as it is nearly the third day and that Shaun San Dena wouldn't risk her life to stop the demon for free, requiring $10,000. Further attacks from Ganush leads to Clay deciding to pay the fee to enlist the help of the powerful medium (Adriana Barraza). San Dena prepares a séance, to trap the Lamia's spirit in a goat and kill it, vanquishing the spirit. San Dena instructs Christine on what to do. San Dena then allows the spirit to inhabit her body. Rham Jas persuades it from stealing Christine's soul, but it refuses and vows to never stop until Christine dies. Christine then places San Dena's hand on the goat, causing the spirit to enter its body, her assistant, Milos attempts to kill the goat, but instead sets it free. The goat in turn, bites him, causing the spirit to inhabit his body and it attacks Rham Jas and Christine. San Dena banishes the Lamia from the séance, but dies in the process. Rham Jas then tells Christine that the only way to get rid of the curse is to give the accursed item to someone as a gift, thereby passing the curse on to that person. Christine seals the button from her coat in an envelope but during a car ride with Clay she accidentally mixes it up with an envelope containing a 1929 Standing Liberty Quarter which she presented to Clay earlier since he is a coin collector. Trying to find a recipient, Christine decides to hand it over to Stu as he was corrupt by stealing the McPherson loan and handing it over to First National. But Christine eventually decides to give the button to Ganush. Christine drives to the cemetery where Ganush is buried and digs up her grave. In a torrential downpour, Christine jams the envelope in Ganush's mouth.

The next day, Christine learns that Stu was fired after trying to frame her for the McPherson loan incident. She goes to Los Angeles Union Station to meet Clay, where they plan to spend a weekend in Santa Barbara with his parents. As the train approaches, Clay shows her the button, saying she had dropped it in his car. Christine then realizes she mixed up envelopes in the car the night before. Horrified, Christine falls on the train tracks as a train barrels towards her. Before the train hits her, a fiery hole in the ground opens from under the tracks and demonic hands reach up and take hold of her, dragging her down. The train runs over the hole while Christine cries for help and begins to burn, as the hole in the ground closes, leaving no trace of her. Clay is paralyzed by the horrific scene, staring in disbelief while still holding the button.

[edit] Cast

Director Sam Raimi, actors Dileep Rao, Alison Lohman, and Justin Long discussing the film at San Diego Comic-Con International in 2008.
  • Alison Lohman as Christine Brown: A young mild-mannered bank employee who desires the position of assistant manager. After turning down Sylvia Ganush's request for a third extension on her mortgage, she is cursed by her and attacked by a demon called the Lamia.
  • Justin Long as Professor Clayton "Clay" Dalton: Christine's boyfriend who is a college professor born to a wealthy family. Clayton is skeptical about Rham Jas's help and the existence of the demon.
  • Lorna Raver as Mrs. Sylvia Ganush: An elderly woman who attacks Christine Brown and places a curse on her. Ganush dies the day after the attack, but her spirit constantly haunts Christine throughout the film.
  • Dileep Rao as Rham Jas: A young psychic who informs Christine that she is cursed. Rham Jas later introduces Christine to Shaun San Dena who has a seance with her.
  • David Paymer as Mr. Jim Jacks: Christine's concerned boss who is considering whether Christine or Stu Rubin deserves the job of assistant manager at the bank.
  • Reggie Lee as Stu Rubin: Stu Rubin is a conniving employee of the bank Christine works at. Stu tries to make Christine look bad at work in order to get the promotion.
  • Adriana Barraza as Shaun San Dena: A psychic who has a seance to draw out the Lamia to kill it for Christine. In the first scene set years in the past, Shaun San Dena is portrayed by Flor de Maria Chahua.
  • Chelcie Ross as Leonard Dalton: Clayton's father who doesn't approve of Clayton dating Christine.
  • Molly Cheek as Trudy Dalton: Clayton's mother who also doesn't approve of Clayton dating Christine due to her peasant origin and bizarre behavior (which was caused by the Lamia).
  • Bojana Novakovic as Ilenka Ganush: Sylvia Ganush's cynical granddaughter. She lets Christine into her home when she asks to meet the elderly Ganush.
  • Art Kimbro as the voice of the Lamia: A powerful demon that is summoned after Ganush curses Christine. Its task is to torment Christine for three days before literally dragging her into Hell to burn for eternity.

[edit] Production

[edit] Background

The original story for Drag Me to Hell was written ten years before the film went into production and was written by Sam Raimi and his brother Ivan Raimi. The film went into production under the name The Curse.[2] Sam and Ivan Raimi wrote the script as a morality tale, desiring to write a story about a character who wants to be a good person, but makes a sinful choice out of greed for their own betterment and pays the price for it.[3] Sam and Ivan tried to make the character of Christine the main focal point in the film, and tried to have Christine in almost all the scenes in the film.[2] Elements of the film's story are drawn from the British horror film Night of the Demon such as the similar shaped demons and the three day curse theme in the film.[4][5] Unlike with his past horror films, Ivan and Sam Raimi wanted the film to be a PG-13 rated horror film not wanting Drag Me to Hell to be strictly driven by gore stating "I didn't want to do exactly the same thing I had done before".[2][6]

After finishing the script, Raimi desired to make the picture after the first draft of the script was completed, but other projects such as the Spider-Man film series became a nearly decade-long endeavor, pushing opportunities to continue work on Drag Me to Hell to late 2007.[2] After the previous three Spider-man films, Raimi came back to the script of Drag Me to Hell, wanting to make a simple and lower budget film.[7] In 2007, Sam Raimi's friend and producer Rob Tapert of Ghost House Pictures had the company sign-on to finance the film.[2] Universal Studios agreed to distribute domestically.[2]

[edit] Casting

After completing the script and having the project green lit, Sam Raimi started casting the film.[2] Ellen Page was originally cast for the main role of Christine, but dropped out of the project due to SAG strike-related scheduling issues.[8] The main role eventually went to Lohman, who didn't enjoy horror films, but enjoyed doing the stunts during filming.[2] Stage actress Lorna Raver auditioned for the role of Mrs. Ganush. Raver was not aware of the specific nature of her character until being cast, stating that all she had "read was about a little old lady coming into the bank because they're closing down her house. It was only later that I saw the whole script and said, 'Oh my!'".[2] To prepare for this role, Raver met with a Hungarian dialect coach and asked to have the portions of the script translated into Hungarian.[2] Raimi would later ask Raver to use some of the Hungarian words in the scenes of Ganush's attacking Christine.[2] Dileep Rao, who plays Rham Jas, made producer Grant Curtis mildly hesitant in casting him, stating that when during his audition "he was a little bit younger than he read in the script. But as we were looking at his reading, Sam said, 'There's no minimum age requirement on wisdom.' Dileep has that wisdom and presence on screen, and that’s what made him right. Once he got on camera, he brought that shoulder for Alison to lean on."[2] Many of the actors playing secondary characters in Drag Me to Hell have appeared previously in Raimi's films, including Joanne Baron, Tom Carey, Molly Cheek, Aimee Miles, John Paxton, Ted Raimi, Bill E. Rogers, Chelcie Ross, and Octavia Spencer.[2]

[edit] Filming

Sam Raimi said he set out to create, “A horror film with lots of wild moments and lots of suspense and big shocks that’ll hopefully make audiences jump. But I also wanted to have a lot of dark humor sprinkled throughout.” said Raimi, "I spent the last decade doing Spider-Man and you come to rely on a lot of people doing things for you and a lot of help, but it’s refreshing and wonderful to be reminded that, as with most filmmakers, the best way to do it is yourself, with a tight team doing the main jobs."[9]

Production for Drag Me to Hell began on location in Tarzana, California.[2] Several members of the production team included, Director of Photography Peter Deming (Evil Dead 2, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery), production designer Steve Saklad (Juno), and Visual Effects supervisor Bruce Jones. The film was produced by Grant Curtis and Rob Tapert. Tapert and Raimi are longtime collaborators, having attended college together in Michigan.[9]

[edit] Editing

Drag Me to Hell was edited by Bob Murawski, who has collaborated with Sam Raimi on several films including the Spider-Man series, The Gift, and Army of Darkness.[9]

Raimi has said of working with Murawski on Drag Me to Hell, "He’d come (down to the set) to see how things were going and to let me know if he’d just cut something that wasn’t working the way he’d wanted it to, or to suggest a pick-up shot I should get for a piece he felt we needed in a sequence I hadn’t realized I needed. He’s very detail-oriented... So we’re very close collaborators."

Raimi finds editing with Murawski to be "relaxing," adding, "I love it. For me, it’s so relaxing, unlike pre-production, which is fraught with anxiety and fear about how we’re going to do things, and production, which is so rushed and a sleepless time and you’re just racing to finish every shot and worrying about focus and so on. So post is soothing and I can watch the film come together, so it’s a time of discovery for me as Bob and I fit all the pieces together. “I see new possibilities in post, as Bob puts the film together, sometimes in a way I never imagined..."[9]

The film was edited by Murawski on an Avid computer system in a West Los Angeles facility. The color grading was completed at Company 3 with colorist Stephen Nakamura. Nakamura used a "da Vinci Resolve." It was CO3’s first start-to-finish feature in 4K resolution.[9]

"For us, post is a very creative time where it’s not just about this factory producing the blueprinted product. It’s really a very creative, experimental time where we try and take everything that’s been written and then shot to the next level," said Raimi.[9]

The final sound mix was completed at The Dub Stage in Burbank with mixers Marti Humphrey and Chris Jacobson.[9]

[edit] Effects

The effects in Drag Me to Hell were created in many different ways, including green screen, puppets, prosthetics and computer-generated imagery.[2] Bruce Jones was the Visual Effects Supervisor on the film. Of Jones, Raimi commented, "He brought a great can-do approach to the film... He’s got a great team of artists and technicians with him, and he’s got great instincts.”[9]

There were hundreds of visual effects in the film, and different effects houses were utilized. According to Raimi, the Bay Area's Tippett Studio was a big player. "We also had work done by Amalgamated Pixels, Ghost VFX, KNB Effects, Home Digital, Cinesoup and IE Effects," said Raimi. According to Raimi, “Bob (Murawski) and I kept adding visual effects as post proceeded. In this film, the supernatural, the unseen, is almost another character, so sequences were developed -- even in post -- that would suggest the presence of the supernatural, and we kept on adding. The same with the sound effects, so it was a very on-going very live process in post."[9]

Director of Photography, Peter Deming tried to use realistic lighting in the film. Said Deming, "Normally, you'd put all corrected bulbs in, but we went with what was there, including the shots in the street. We used the streetlight look and mixed that with interior lighting. There were a lot of odd color sources that we chose to leave the way they would be naturally. It’s a heightened sense of realism."[2] One of the earliest projects the special effects teams did was to how to do the scene where Mrs. Ganush's attacks Christine in her car. To film the action, which included close-ups of Christine jamming her foot on the pedal, hitting the brake and shifting gears, the team created a puzzle car which allowed the front engine compartment and back trunk — as well as all four sides and doors — to come away from the car. The roof came off in two directions.[2]

[edit] Reception

Drag Me to Hell was first shown to the public as a "Work in Progress" print at the South by Southwest festival on March 15, 2009.[10] The film debuted in its full form at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, where it was shown out of competition on May 21 as a midnight screening.[11][12]

[edit] Box office

The film was released in American theaters on Friday May 29, 2009.[13] The film opened at #4 with $15,825,480 from 2,508 theaters, for an average of $6,310 per theater. In its second weekend, it dropped to seventh place, with $7,040,550, expanding to 2,510 theaters, averaging $2,805 per theater, and bringing the 10-day gross to $28,233,230.[14] Drag Me to Hell closed on Thursday August 6, 2009, with a final domestic gross of $42,100,625, and an additional $36,318,225 internationally for a total of $80,498,545 worldwide.[1]

[edit] Critical reception

Drag Me to Hell received positive reviews from critics upon release. Rotten Tomatoes rated the film as "Certified Fresh", with 92% of critics giving the film a positive review, based upon a sample of 192 reviews.[15] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average score of 83 out of 100, based on 32 reviews, signifying "universal acclaim".[13]

Positive critical reception of the movie generally praised the film's scary but humorous and campy tone. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A rating stating that "Raimi has made the most crazy, fun, and terrifying horror movie in years."[16] Besty Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times praised the film, stating that it "should not be dismissed as yet another horror flick just for teens. The filmmakers have given us a 10-story winding staircase of psychological tension that is making very small circles near the end."[17] Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune described the film as a "hellaciously effective B-movie [that] comes with a handy moral tucked inside its scares, laughs and Raimi's specialty, the scare/laugh hybrid."[18] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times wrote a positive review, stating the film "is a sometimes funny and often startling horror movie. That is what it wants to be, and that is what it is."[19] A positive review from Variety found the film's plot to be "Scant and barren of subtext, the pic is single-mindedly devoted to pushing the audience's buttons...Still, there's no denying it delivers far more than competing PG-13 thrillers."[5]

There were few mixed or negative reviews, and those there were did not agree about what they disliked. For instance, Kyle Smith of the New York Post thought it was cheesy, with too many "gross-outs",[20] Rex Reed of the New York Observer thought that the plot wasn't believable enough,[21] and Peter Howell of The Toronto Star disliked Lohman's performance and thought it was "just not very funny".[22] The movie was nominated for "Choice Movie: Horror/Thriller" at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards, which the film lost to Friday the 13th (2009).[23][24] At the 2009 Scream Awards show, Drag Me to Hell won the awards for Best Horror Movie and Best Scream-play.[25][26]

[edit] Home media

Drag Me to Hell was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in the US on October 13, 2009. Both media include an Unrated Director's Cut as well as the Theatrical Version.[27] In its first two weeks the DVD sold 459,217 copies generating $7.98 million in sales.[28]

[edit] Soundtrack

Drag Me to Hell
Soundtrack by Christopher Young
Released August 18, 2009
Genre Film music
Length 52:27
Producer Brian McNelis, Flavio Motalla, Skip Williamson, Christopher Young[29]
Professional reviews

The soundtrack for Drag Me To Hell was composed by Christopher Young. Young has worked with director Sam Raimi previously on his films The Gift and Spider-man 3. The soundtrack was released on August 18, 2009.[31] Sam Raimi stated that emphasis was on using the soundtrack to create a world that didn’t exist, a world of the "supernatural."[9]

[edit] Tracklisting

  1. "Drag Me to Hell" – 2:33
  2. "Mexican Devil Disaster" – 4:33
  3. "Tale of a Haunted Banker" – 1:52
  4. "Lamia" – 4:06
  5. "Black Rainbows" – 3:24
  6. "Ode to Ganush" – 2:23
  7. "Familiar Familiars" – 2:11
  8. "Loose Teeth" – 6:31
  9. "Ordeal by Corpse" – 4:35
  10. "Bealing Bells with Trumpet" – 5:12
  11. "Brick Dogs Ala Carte" – 1:46
  12. "Buddled Brain Strain" – 2:51
  13. "Auto-Da-Fe" – 4:31
  14. "Concerto to Hell" – 5:59

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[edit] External links

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Films directed by Sam Raimi
1980s
The Evil Dead (1981) · Crimewave (1985) · Evil Dead II (1987)
1990s
Darkman (1990) · Army of Darkness (1992) · The Quick and the Dead (1995) · A Simple Plan (1998) · For Love of the Game (1999)
2000s
The Gift (2000) · Spider-Man (2002) · Spider-Man 2 (2004) · Spider-Man 3 (2007) · Drag Me to Hell (2009)
2010s
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