After delighting comic book fans with his beloved Spider-Man trilogy in the early 2000s, Sam Raimi revisited his horror roots with Drag Me To Hell, a deceptively simple morality tale with a gut punch of an ending. A particularly gnarly brand of supernatural horror is sprinkled throughout, crafted in a manner that feels intense and jarring despite the film’s PG-13 rating. Relying on well-timed atmospheric spooks and extreme body horror, Raimi spins a story so tense that the audience feels rooted in Christine Brown’s (Alison Lohman) experience as she battles shame, guilt, and nightmarish terrors right up till the fiery end.
