Drag Me to Hell

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Drag Me to Hell

PG-13,

2009,

1h 39m,

Horror/

Mystery & Thriller

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266 Reviews

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62%

250,000+ Ratings

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Christine Brown has a loving boyfriend and a good job at a Los Angeles bank. Her heavenly life becomes hellish when, in an effort to impress her boss, she denies an old woman's request for an extension on her home loan. In retaliation, the crone places a curse on Christine, threatening her soul with eternal damnation. Christine seeks a psychic's help to break the curse, but the price to save her soul may be more than she can pay.

Critics Consensus

Sam Raimi returns to top form with Drag Me to Hell, a frightening, hilarious, delightfully campy thrill ride.

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Chris Stuckmann

ChrisStuckmann.com

Oct 26, 2020

B+

It's very well-directed and a total f---ing blast!

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Kaleem Aftab

Independent (UK)

May 15, 2018

When violence appears in Raimi's Drag Me to Hell, it's not meant to be real, often it's hilarious, and what Raimi tries to show is what is going on in the mind of his principal character.

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Glenn Kenny

MUBI

Dec 13, 2017

At what point does gleeful cynicism become so gleeful that it ceases to function as cynicism at all, and mutates into a blatant formalist trope of little emotional or intellectual resonance, but plenty of aesthetic...what's the word? Bliss?

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Bryce Hanson

Horror Movie Talk

Sep 23, 2025

9/10

This film really hits the sweet spot for me. The characters are fleshed out, The special effects are viscerally over the top, and there is a subtle ribbon of humor strung throughout.

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Joe Lipsett

Horror Queers Podcast

May 28, 2024

4.5/5

Raimi's "return" to horror features cartoonish violence, Evil Dead references, and a great cast that's game for anything. And that's before we talk about the controversial animal murder and mean AF ending.

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Sean Axmaker

Stream on Demand

Oct 27, 2023

This rollercoaster horror film is like an EC horror comic of the 1950s come to life, an unforgiving morality tale with playfully gruesome twists and a doozy of a gallows humor.

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Mar 27, 2019

best horror movie ever

Rey R

Mar 16, 2019

Just watched again and forgot how great this movie was. Fun watch.

Mar 12, 2019

I watch this movie in my film studies class and this is the last thing I want for a horror film. This movie is very annoying and the ending made me feel as if I wanted to get hit by a train instead of what happened in the ending. I was disappointed by the story which has so many plot wholes and the main character is just aggravating. The only good character was the boyfriend and the fortune teller guy and btw all the names are forgettable except for the demon. I never really cared for Sam Rami but this disappoints me about his other films if they make a second one please fix all of these.

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Dec 30, 2018

This here is a poor excuse for a film, let alone a horror one. It's like they tried to imitate the Scary Movie and they ended up with this vomit right here. The only category this fits into is "teenage comedies". A shameful waste of time.

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Theodore M

Dec 4, 2018

If you have seen Stephen King's Thinner do not bother with this film.

Finn P

Dec 2, 2018

Solid horror film from Sam Raimi.

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Synopsis

Christine Brown has a loving boyfriend and a good job at a Los Angeles bank. Her heavenly life becomes hellish when, in an effort to impress her boss, she denies an old woman's request for an extension on her home loan. In retaliation, the crone places a curse on Christine, threatening her soul with eternal damnation. Christine seeks a psychic's help to break the curse, but the price to save her soul may be more than she can pay.

Director: Sam Raimi
Producer: Rob Tapert, Grant Curtis
Screenwriter: Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Ghost House Pictures
Rating: PG-13 (Language|Disturbing Images|Sequences of Horror Violence|Terror)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 29, 2009, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 12, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $42.1M
Runtime: 1h 39m

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