Drag Me To Hell (a review of the film of that name. not an instruction)
Sam Raimi is back! Doing horror! Again! Etc. Evil Dead 2 is a masterpiece but I'm not entirely sure much else by Mr Raimi is. He's been fairly consistently entertaining I suppose if not mindblowing. Evil Dead 2 is about the closest to that. It's been a while since I've watched it so maybe a rewatch is in order to decide if it's mindblowing.
Anyway about this film. The trailer looked awful. It looked like such a boring standard horror film. That at least isn't true. It's definitely not a bog standard horror film. I didn't know at the time of seeing the trailer that it was directed by Sam Raimi. Discovering that is the only thing that made me go and see it. Well that and everyone raving about it.
Enough! What's it like? Well as you might know, it has a certain comedy element. If you know Evil Dead 2 you'll probably have some idea what that means. However this isn't like that, it is actually quite plentiful in its traditional horror moments, separate from the comedy-horror moments. That's where I found a slight problem with the film. One minute it's astonishingly terrifying and then the next it's really quite slapstick Evil Dead 2 like.
All of the scares are achieved from 'jump scares' rather than the creeping horror of The Grudge or The Ring. Interestingly though all the scares are genuinely scares, there's no cat jumping through the window or boyfriend creeping into the house. If it's building up suspense, it's going to throw something scary at you. Which is done brilliantly. I'm not one who scares at these sort of things easily but I was definitely feeling fear of another shock.
But then we'll have silly scenes like a talking goat or gross out slapstick involving a corpse drooling all over the heroine. Or some eye popping out scene. Which is often rather effectively funny but makes the whole film that bit inconsistent in tone leaving you feeling a little confused. I think really it should have concentrated on being the dark incredibly scary film it could have been instead of mixing it with the comedy moments. That could have made it the most utterly terrifying horror movie of all time. It's pretty close to being that anyway but it in a strange kind of way.
Anyway about this film. The trailer looked awful. It looked like such a boring standard horror film. That at least isn't true. It's definitely not a bog standard horror film. I didn't know at the time of seeing the trailer that it was directed by Sam Raimi. Discovering that is the only thing that made me go and see it. Well that and everyone raving about it.
Enough! What's it like? Well as you might know, it has a certain comedy element. If you know Evil Dead 2 you'll probably have some idea what that means. However this isn't like that, it is actually quite plentiful in its traditional horror moments, separate from the comedy-horror moments. That's where I found a slight problem with the film. One minute it's astonishingly terrifying and then the next it's really quite slapstick Evil Dead 2 like.
All of the scares are achieved from 'jump scares' rather than the creeping horror of The Grudge or The Ring. Interestingly though all the scares are genuinely scares, there's no cat jumping through the window or boyfriend creeping into the house. If it's building up suspense, it's going to throw something scary at you. Which is done brilliantly. I'm not one who scares at these sort of things easily but I was definitely feeling fear of another shock.
But then we'll have silly scenes like a talking goat or gross out slapstick involving a corpse drooling all over the heroine. Or some eye popping out scene. Which is often rather effectively funny but makes the whole film that bit inconsistent in tone leaving you feeling a little confused. I think really it should have concentrated on being the dark incredibly scary film it could have been instead of mixing it with the comedy moments. That could have made it the most utterly terrifying horror movie of all time. It's pretty close to being that anyway but it in a strange kind of way.