Drag me to hell
Posted on: June 2, 2009 - 5:17am
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Drag me to hell
This is worth seeing. It is genuinely innovative. It will be imitated.
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Saw it today.
It's a diversion, but nothing special at all.
sounds like a description for going to the movies in general around here.
Let me guess... lots of scary images, relatively typical horror plot with a ticking clock or other pressure cooker, and no gratuitous boobs.
I've been so disillusioned with movies lately.
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A scary movie I saw recently which I actually thought was pretty innovative was Behind The Mask: Rise of Leslie Vernon.
As to Drag Me To Hell, isn't that one made by the guys who did the Evil Dead movies? Not exactly "legitimate" film makers, imo.
Oh, come the fuck on. Those are great!
I plan on seeing Drag Me just as soon as I get a free afternoon. Sam Raimi is like Hitchcock with fake blood and latex monsters. It's fluff but it's tremendously entertaining.
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I watched it. It was entertaining. Yeah, if you enjoyed the Evil Dead movies, you'll like this one too.
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Hambi, it is true that there is nothing new under the sun. Just like the ancients writing about their god(s) the motif remains the same no matter how you repackage it. "Good vs Evil" "Hero saves the day".
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No spoilers.
No contrived suspense. Medieval imagery like old women and a goat are used. None of that "snot" that substitutes nausea for horror. No gore per se -- not sure what it was supposed to be. One use of blood but not pouring from severed limbs. There are no sudden loud noises so there are no startles in place of genuine surprise with the plot elements.
As to imitated, many years ago Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) made Dead Alive with became the definition of snot, blood and inner organs all over. Ever since damn near every "horror" movie has had those features. Phantoms was one of the few exceptions. Of course Phantoms has a non-horror resolution after using more traditional horror genre exposition of the siguation. (Also Rose McGowan but that is another matter.)
This has genuinely innovative elements which will be copied. Expect goats to figure in future horror movies. Other features will be copied but no spoilers here.
If there is any movie it is like, it is Night of the Demon, a 40s or 50s Brit horror movie that was quite effective and a departure from the Frankenstein, Dracula, Mummy, Wolfman version of the genre at the time.
As for actually being scary, we grew up. But there is a matter of a well told story with traditional elements. This is one of them. Of course the test is in the second viewing to see if it holds up or it was only the surprise element.
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Very well done movie. I was expecting that it would come off like the evil dead movies but was quite surprised. Where Evil Dead was intentionally a schlock fest, this was a legitimate horror film in the vein of Stephen King or John Carpenter.
I think that it will mostly hold up for a second viewing but there were one or two elements of note that worked very well the first time around but will not the second. Not wanting to drop spoilers but who the fuck keeps an anvil hanging from a rope in the tool shed like that? And does anyone really keep ice skates that sharp?
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Lol, yeah, there just happened to be an anvil there.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, | As I foretold you, were all spirits, and | Are melted into air, into thin air; | And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, | The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, | The solemn temples, the great globe itself, - Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, | And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, | Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff | As dreams are made on, and our little life | Is rounded with a sleep. - Shakespeare
All true but the movie does not depend upon either of them or the handy chainsaw. They are scenes not plot devices. Actually they are not even scenes but events within scenes where the purpose of the scenes is simply that nothing works. The "however you spell it" cannot be stopped.
Of course whenever a guy is the target he has one or more 6 gauge shotguns and .50 cal Desert Eagles laying around for use in the third act.
Lets get this straight. The purpose is to scare the girl you took to the movie into grabbing you for safety. It is a good excuse for both of you. But here I am only discussing the quality of this contribution to the genre.
From my second viewing I still predict it will be imitated to death and it is only those who remember where these things were used first who will recognize the imitation. Consider a Sci-Fi channel version of it with a tame goat. I think just filming a domesticated goat in that behavior was a challenge but I am not W Bush and know nothing of pet goats. Not to detract from the horror of the W of course.
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