‘Hell’ Is No Drag, but Horror-Flick Heaven
By JOE MORGENSTERN
O, joy, a horror flick that’s smart and funny, as well as cringeworthy for all the right reasons. And up to speed on the mortgage crisis too. “Drag Me to Hell” was directed by Sam Raimi, who has revisited his horror roots after devoting more than half of the current decade to directing the adventures of Spider-Man. (He wrote the script with his brother, Ivan Raimi.) The heroine, played to sly perfection by Alison Lohman, is Christine Brown, an ambitious young loan officer bucking for a promotion to assistant branch manager. When an elderly, impoverished and majestically repulsive customer named Mrs. Ganush comes in to beg for yet another extension on her home loan, Christine hesitates only briefly before turning her down. Given what we now know about the perils of permissive lending practices, that decision should have sealed the deal for managerial status. Instead, Mrs. Ganush retaliates with an ancient gypsy curse, and Christine spends the rest of the movie trying to avoid eternal damnation. ... the rest is a bit of a spoiler review: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203658504574193822996035860.html
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