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Happy new year and how the hell are you? The Rotten Horror Picture Show is back with a hot one to start off 2023, as we cover Sam Raimi’s return to splatter comedy, 2009’s Drag Me to Hell! After years toiling in the Marvel bullpen with his Spider-Man Trilogy, Raimi decided to dust off his old horror chops and give us a fun genre flick that shows the old man’s still got it!
From Wikipedia:
Drag Me to Hell is a 2009 American supernatural horror film directed and co-written by Sam Raimi. It stars Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao, David Paymer, and Adriana Barraza. The plot, written with his older brother Ivan, focuses on a loan officer, who, because she has to prove to her boss that she can make the “hard decisions”, chooses not to extend an elderly woman’s mortgage. In retaliation, the woman places a curse on the loan officer that, after three days of escalating torment, will plunge her into the depths of Hell to burn for eternity.
Raimi wrote Drag Me to Hell with his brother before working on the Spider-Man trilogy. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was a box office success, grossing over $90 million worldwide. Drag Me to Hell won the award for Best Horror Film at the 2009 Scream Awards and the 2010 Saturn Awards.
Join Clay and Amanda as they put an evil curse on Sam Raimi’s favorite car the Oldsmobile Delta 88 – “The Classic,” more than one instance of chin gumming (73 movies and this is our first chin gumming!), bodily fluids of dubious provenance both practical and computer generated, a Toontown Acme Anvil, a goat demon who likes to slap people, cat puke (not puke from a cat, but the act of puking an entire cat), and some debatably questionable parenting.
So puke blood all over your boss, summon some angry goat spirits, mix up some very important envelopes, and deny a kindly old gypsy woman a mortgage extension with us…if you dare!