Unfortunately, according to the Shout! Factory website, the exclusive, limited edition poster of the newly commissioned artwork has sold out. At startup, the disc goes to an animated menu screen with options along the bottom and music playing in the background.
The two Region A locked, BD50 discs - one containing the Theatrical Cut and the other, the Unrated Version - are housed inside a normal blue case on opposing panels with brand new reversible cover art and a cardboard slipcover. Shout! Factory brings Drag Me to Hell to Blu-ray as a two-disc Collector's Edition package under the distributor's Scream Factory line. Honestly, this horror-comedy gem is an underrated cult masterpiece in need of love and acceptance for exactly what it is.įor a more in-depth take on the movie, you can read our review of the 2009 Blu-ray release HERE. But Christine's biggest struggle is her fight with staying thin and to the modern standard of beauty, and the demon is essentially a metaphor for our heroine's eating disorder. She is also made to feel undervalued and ashamed for her rural upbringing by her boyfriend's well-to-do, haughty, judgmental mother. Much of the story touches on Christine's ordeals and challenges as a modern woman, starting with having to work twice as hard for a job promotion that could potentially go to the underqualified and unexperienced Stu. That alone should be enough for a satisfying fright-fest, but Raimi, who co-wrote the script with his older brother and long-time collaborator Ivan Raimi, ingeniously takes the plot in some interesting directions.
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The famed creator of the Evil Dead series and director of the Spider-Man trilogy tells the spooky tale of young, career-driven Christine cursed by an elderly gypsy woman and haunted by a powerfully malevolent demon. With lots of explicitly graphic, vomit-inducing gore, the film is a wacky funhouse foray into Looney Tunes-territory where we're meant to laugh at the disgusting imagery along with the ridiculously over-the-top jump scares. Unlike other horror comedies which make their comedic intentions clear and obvious, Raimi's humor is amazingly subtle and silly all at once, carefully balancing the two seemingly opposing genres without fully letting one completely take over a scene.
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I think the reason for this is the fact the movie is an intentionally weird, corny attempt at scaring people, and Raimi accomplishes this by also making audiences laugh along with the scares. Rather, it exists unappreciated, if not altogether dismissed, as a weird, corny attempt at scaring moviegoers. And I'm not referring to audiences simply not being familiar with it or that most have not seen it. Outside the ravaging circles of deeply-committed horror-hounds, Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell remains a criminally underrated horror gem.
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