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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 28, 2024

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.

Full Review | Oct 27, 2023

Sam Raimi cements himself as a master of the horror-comedy, thanks in large part to Alison Lohman's impressively outlandish performance. Arguably Raimi's best balance of humor and horror, and best film, since Evil Dead 2.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 22, 2023

Not since The Exorcist has there been such an exhausting horror experience, which embraces and quells disbelief with such expert viciousness toward the characters and the viewer alike.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 5, 2023

It's the word "awesome" where every letter of the word has little parasitic awesome's feeding off of them, and each smaller parasitic awesome has even smaller awesome amoebas clinging to them, forever on down

Full Review | Jan 10, 2022

A funhouse freak show that's more interested in delivering old-fashioned chills than in wallowing in misogyny, masochism and mutilation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2021

It's also refreshing to see a strong female lead character, even though it's not uncommon to find women at the forefront of gross-out horror pictures.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 28, 2020

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

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Oct 26, 2020

Sam Raimi’s old-school 2009 funfest...

Full Review | Oct 16, 2020

Drag Me To Hell is pure horror heaven.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 30, 2019

There is nothing in here that resonates.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 9, 2019

It is a horror story as the most frightening cautionary tale, one that applies to all of us.

Full Review | Jun 1, 2019

Raimi, the man behind the Evil Dead movies, has always had a twisted eye when it comes to horror. Thankfully, he brings that approach to this project - creating a film that features as many laughs as it does scary moment.

Full Review | Original Score: B | May 16, 2019

Ironically, it's a masterpiece of the modern horror genre. it shows a lot of cinematic strength, and it's a surprisingly meaningful movie.

Full Review | Feb 11, 2019

The premise is old-fashioned-a gypsy curse haunts a young woman-but the execution is glorious, as funny and cockeyed as it is gasp-inducing.

Full Review | Oct 30, 2018

Drag Me to Hell can have you tense and on the edge of your seat before repulsing you with a gross out moment and then use that revulsion to lead into a gag inspired by the Three Stooges.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 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.

Full Review | May 15, 2018

Ultimately, what I find most endearing about the film is the same thing that I primarily love about the first two Evil Dead films: it's made by a guy who isn't afraid to let his warring sensibilities go up on display in a single film.

Full Review | Feb 22, 2018

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?

Full Review | Dec 13, 2017

If you're looking for a good contemporary scary movie to watch, avoid this one.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Sep 12, 2017