DRAG ME TO HELL

Drag Me to Hell is a new release I viewed Friday night; I wasn't too impressed with the film, but it did have a lot of good horror elements to it. It was a Complex Discovery Plot with a horror monster, and has a few jumpy moments.


In the onset we see a boy brought up to a woman's house who is haunted by a demon, when the woman tries to exorcise the demon, the boy is thrown from the room, the floor opens up and demons drag the boy into the fiery abyss. The movie then jumps to years later where we meet our main character Alison who is a loan officer at a Los Angeles bank. An elderly, repulsive looking woman comes in to get an extension on her loan, and when Alison rejects her she begs her, but is dragged out by security. The woman yells, "You shame me!" and lunges at Alison. When Alison goes to her car that night the old woman's car is parked in front of Alison's. In comes the bus technique; As Alison gets in her car the old woman's handkerchief flys on to the windshield startling Alison. As she watches the handkerchief blow by she turns to see the woman sitting in her back seat; the woman attacks Alison trying to get revenge for the loan. Alison fights back, but the old lady doesn't leave until she rips a button off of Alison's coat and hexes it and then returns it to Alison. That night the discovery occurs very Alison experiences the rath of the demon the woman unleashed on her, and realizes that there is something supernatural going on. The confirmation comes when she tries to convience her boyfriend that what happened to her was supernatural and she visits a psychic who tells her he sees very dark forces within her. She learnes that the demon that is huanting her will torture her for 3 days, and on the forth day it will kill her, or drag her to hell. The first confrontation occurs when she and the psychic visit the lady who tried to help the boy in the beginning; they summon the demon and try to pass the spirit into a goat so they can kill it releasing the hex. This fails, and the lady trying to help her dies. The psychic then tells her there is one other way she can get rid of the demon is to formally give the hexed button as a gift to someone. She chooses to return it to the old woman, who had the same night she attacked Alison, so she digs up her grave and shoves it in the woman's mouth. What she doesn't realize is that when she was in the car with her booyfriend her button fell out of her purse onto his car floor. The next day, Alison and her boyfriend are leaving on a train when he shows her the button and tells her he found it. Terrorfiied she stumbles backwards, falling onto the train track, where the demon proceeds to drag her to hell!!!



The monster of the movie was the repulsive old woman along with the demon; everytime the demon attacked, the old woman's "ghost" was present as well. The woman was very disgusting with one blind eye that was all glassed over and a different color, she had rotted jagged teeth, filthy rotten finger nails, and she tormented Alison even after her death. The demon was some kind of goat demon that killed after the third day of torture, torture that was horrorifying in its self.



The movie was PG-13, but it was still a successful horror film; however the ending was disappointing. The film also had a comedic feel to it in some aspects, which also made it more entertaining. I would recomend the film, just be prepared to want more in the ending.