Drag Me to Hell (2009)

All Critics (228) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (217) | Rotten (18) | DVD (15)

Raimi should go slumming more often.

July 7, 2010 Full Review

Dana Stevens

Slate

Top Critic

The dichotomies director Sam Raimi presents within that familiar genre are what make this such a kick.

December 15, 2009

Christy Lemire

Associated Press

Top Critic

Drag Me to Hell is a sometimes funny and often startling horror movie. That is what it wants to be, and that is what it is.

June 8, 2009 Full Review | Comments (2)

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

Truly, this is manna from hell.

June 1, 2009 Full Review

David Edelstein

New York Magazine

Top Critic

This grosses you out but it also makes you laugh at how crazy it is.

June 1, 2009 Full Review

Ben Lyons

At the Movies

Top Critic

It would be tempting to call Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell a budding cult classic, except its profitability and popularity may eclipse cult status.

June 1, 2009 Full Review

Ben Mankiewicz

At the Movies

Top Critic

This is horror directed with a light touch but delivered like a hammer blow to the head.

September 29, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

Drag Me to Hell's PG-13 rating holds [Raimi] back from the all-out, blood-spraying gonzo insanity he reached with Evil Dead, but he still gets away with a surprising amount of gross-out gags.

January 15, 2012 Full Review

Alex Sandell

Juicy Cerebellum

There's a necessary coldness at its heart, and I'm honestly unsure whether it's a plus or a minus. I'm convinced, however, that this big inner chill is part of the reason why it's still creeping me out just a bit.

January 7, 2012 Full Review

Bob Westal

Bullz-Eye.com

It could do with some more insanity. That's usually the only time it really feels alive. As it is only about half of Drag Me to Hell really hits that levels, but that's a lot more than we normally get.

March 18, 2011 Full Review

Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

When a film makes me smile this much (you can't see, but it's a big smile), for this long (about a week) you know it's a great one.

March 1, 2011 Full Review

Mike Edwards

What Culture

Director Sam Raimi returns to his Evil Dead roots for this tongue-in-cheek gorefest -- one part spooky chiller, one part campy chuckler.

February 1, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Tyler Hanley

Palo Alto Weekly

Drag Me To Hell is a genre-buster; one of the funniest and most satisfying films of 2009, and quite simply a perfect horror film. It also has possibly the greatest final-reel shock since Carrie.

October 27, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Simon Miraudo

Quickflix

Raimi took the horror/comedy by the scruff of the neck in 1981 with his no-budget, roller-coaster of a possession film Evil Dead...and he brings his big bag of tricks to his much-anticipated return to horror, Drag Me To Hell.

August 9, 2010 Full Review | Comments (4)

Simon Foster

sbs.com.au

While few are going to accuse it of breaking new narrative ground, it proves one of the most satisfying horror films of recent years.

July 7, 2010 Full Review

Sight and Sound

Sam Raimi returns to his horror roots in the unrelenting and cheerfully macabre spook tale.

July 7, 2010 Full Review

Matthew Pejkovic

Matt's Movie Reviews

Raimi mastered the art of the screeching, zombie hag in The Evil Dead, and 28 years and three Spider-Mans later, he's still got it.

July 7, 2010 Full Review

Steve Newton

Georgia Straight

Drag Me To Hell is the thrill ride Sam Raimi should be making year-on-year, not another cash cow hapless Spider-Man film.

April 15, 2010 Full Review | Comments (4)

Sam Bathe

Fan The Fire

Contemporary economic crisis provides interesting backdrop to otherwise simple and rather predictable horror movie plot.

December 17, 2009 Full Review

Dragan Antulov

Draxblog Movie Reviews

Thrilling, in ways both expected and less so, as prone to provoking giggles as it is gasps.

December 17, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

William Goss

Orlando Weekly

Raimi embraces hoary clichés like Gypsy curses and gateways to Hades in this cautionary tale for financial professionals.

December 15, 2009 Full Review

Betsy Sherman

Boston Phoenix

This certainly qualifies as an auteurist work, but I prefer my Sam Raimi diluted.

November 25, 2009 Full Review

Josh Larsen

LarsenOnFilm

While it has the energy and the endless cinematic invention of his early work, the film's command of economical storytelling is something that once eluded Raimi.

November 6, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Brian Holcomb

Kinetofilm

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.

October 19, 2009 Full Review

Sean Axmaker

Seanax.com

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