| release date | May 29 2009 |
| studio | Universal Pictures |
| director | Sam Raimi |
| writer | Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Jeff Lynch |
| starring | Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Jessica Lucas, Dileep Rao, Lorna Raver, David Paymer, Adriana Barraza,Fernanda Romero, Reggie Lee, Alex Veadov, Bojana Novakovic, Bill E. Roger |
| rating | PG13 |
| site | dragmetohell.net |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
One of The Evil Dead series’ greatest assets is its host of Deadites, possessed humans who want nothing more than to possess more humans through vague, ever changing means. Some are humanoid, some are monstrous, some are trees, and some are goats. But all of them are awesome. And while they don’t make much sense and lack consistency even within individual films, we love them all the same. Especially the goat. Here is our rundown of Deadites from the entire Evil Dead series, excluding all videogames, comic books, and fan fiction. But including Drag Me to Hell because c’mon. READ MORE
I wanted to start Evil Dead Month off with a bang and I figured there’d be no better way to do that than to lay my cards out on the table and rank the films in my order of preference. And I’ll say it – I fully expect some of you to hate me after this, because I make one choice that I’m sure 99% of you won’t be down with. READ MORE
When it comes to endings, sometimes you’ve got to take the advice of Jesus (as played by Jerry Cantrell in Jerry Maguire) and hang your balls out there to be great. So while all of these endings are awesome, most of them aren’t exactly happy. It’s not that I’m against happy endings, but often they clash so harshly with the film’s overall tone and theme that you just know they’re tacked on compromises. READ MORE
We have heard your cries! MANY of you felt that the The Ultimate Horror Challenge wasn’t comprehensive enough! So we included an additional 20 films that round it out a bit more. Many of these are from your suggestions! But this still isn’t a list of every horror movie ever made. And it still doesn’t contain every major work of every horror auteur (there’s still no John Carpenter’s They Live or Wes Craven’s The Last House On The Left). READ MORE
This isn’t a list of every horror movie ever made. Nor does it contain every major work of every horror auteur (you’ll notice we didn’t include John Carpenter’s They Live or Wes Craven’s The Last House On The Left). Rather, this is a compendium of films that we feel – in one way or another – are essential viewing for every horror fan. Some are mainstream (Poltergeist), some aren’t (Cannibal Holocaust). It’s a broad sampling of key films from the genre. READ MORE
Oh boy, the San Diego Comic-Con is knocking at our door and you know exactly what that means — about 400,000 news stories over the next five days. Since the front page is going to be congested worse than the 405, we’ll try and squeeze unrelated announcements and smaller news breaks into various News Bites over the next week. READ MORE
“Slick and reminiscent of 28 Days Later” (STV.tv), the new Ghost House Underground release, Stag Night, brings to life a truly horrific tale of the New York City underground on DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Digital Download and On Demand. When a group of friends head to the city for a bachelor party, they stall in an abandoned subway station. The group soon finds themselves the target of a gruesome manhunt when a secret gang of cannibal dwellers living in the tunnels discovers them. Inside you’ll find the cover art, along with the first images. (more…) READ MORE
Update: This long gestured project from literally years ago is from Jake Wade Wall. Originally set up at Universal under the title ‘Anguish’, inside you’ll find a synopsis. Pajiba, a site that’s struggles with accuracy, is reporting that Mandate Pictures (The Grudge, Drag Me to Hell, The Strangers) is developing Cineplex, a movie based on a pitch envisioning the horror movie as the next Scream. It’s about a group of teens watching a horror movie who are taken by surprise when the villain of the film attacks them in real life. Sounds like the exact same plot as Jack Messitt’s Midnight Movie, no? Either way, it’s a fun premise I think I’d enjoy as a big budget fare. (more…) READ MORE
On both DVD and Blu-ray November 9th from Image Entertainment is the Amazing Krypto Brothers’ Damned By Dawn. Spoken of only in fearful whispers, a supernatural force holds a chilling grip over a remote, primitive farming community where Claire (Renee Wilner) arrives to visit her ailing grandmother. On her deathbed, the old woman warns Claire about the cost of interfering with a powerful spirit coming to claim her soul, and when the rest of the family fails to heed these ancient traditions, the dead are called up from their graves for a bloody night of retribution that leaves carnage and monstrous mayhem in its wake! A riveting rollercoaster of terror in the tradition of The Evil Dead and Drag Me to Hell, this acclaimed new vision of horror reveals that there truly are things in the night much more frightening than death! (more…) READ MORE
Hatchet 2 director Adam Green, possibly the nicest man working in the horror biz today, stopped with his soon-to-be bride Rileah Vanderbilt (‘Young Victor Crowley’ in Hatchet 1 & 2 and ‘Shannon’ in this year’s Frozen) to chat with B-D at the Saturn Awards Thursday night (Frozen was nominated for Best Picture but lost to Drag Me To Hell) and gave us a little more insight into his next directing project, the Chris Columbus-produced Killer Pizza, which according to Green will bring us back to the glory days of kid-friendly ’80s “horror” fare like Monster Squad. Read on for the whole pie. (more…) READ MORE
Liam Neeson (Taken, Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace), Christina Ricci (The Addams Family, Penelope), and Justin Long (He’s Just Not That Into You, Drag Me to Hell) star in the psychological thriller After.Life, on DVD and Blu-ray™ on Tuesday, August 3rd from Anchor Bay Entertainment (Pre-Book July 1st). Directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, and released theatrically by Anchor Bay Films, After.Life tells the story of a young woman (Ricci) caught between life and death and a funeral director (Neeson) who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead, but might just be intent on burying her alive. (more…) READ MORE
Before any footage from a film is seen, typically a teaser or full one sheet is released by a studio. This is an incredibly important, even detrimental process as it is the first thing the consumers will see and identify with a movie. If the poster stinks, the consumer might write it off all together, while a good poster could lead to them checking out the official website, trailer and best case scenario, hanging it from their wall (the most personal relationship any of us have with a movie). To say the least, posters are damn important. As part of our year end coverage, we present to you the year’s best theatrical posters. (more…) READ MORE
What a year for independent films. Every year we check out all of the film festivals to find out what movies should be on your radars. Most of you ignore us completely, while some of you are treated to quality genre films that aren’t remakes or big budget beasts. 2009 was an extraordinary year for indie horror with Paranormal Activity making all the noise. beyond the break you’ll find my own person picks for the 10 best horror films of the year. (more…) READ MORE
Logan Marshall-Green (Across the Universe), Jenny O’Hara (“Big Love”, “Drop Dead Diva”), Jacob Vargas (Death Race, The Hills Have Eyes II) and Matt Craven (Disturbia, Crimson Tide) are to dance with John Dowdle’s Devil movie shoot in Toronto, part of M. Night Shyamalan’s three-film slate with Media Rights Capital. Also rounding out the ensemble cast ahead of an Oct. 24 production start are Chris Messina, Bojana Novakovic (Edge of Darkness Drag Me to Hell), Bokeem Woodbine (The Poker House, The Butcher), Geoffrey Arend (“Trust Me”, The ringer) and Caroline Dhavernas (Wrecked). Universal will distribute Devil, the first project from Shyamalan’s “The Night Chronicles” financing/production partnership with MRC. Drew Dowdle and Trish Hofmann will executive produce the project from a Brian Nelson script. The Dowdle brothers brought us Quarantine and the forthcoming Poughkeepsie Tapes. (more…) READ MORE
We’ve had quite a big morning when it comes to horror news, so we’ve jammed all the small bits into this one article. Below you can find out how to get a free Saw VI iPhone app where you can talk like Jigsaw, then you can read all about the new Twilight wannabe movie adaptation entitled Shiver, Sid Haig toplines a new horror anthology, Jesse Metcalfe gets Tortured and you’ll see who won the Halloween Horror Nights shorts content. More as it comes in. (more…) READ MORE
The only real awards event for horror comes every October thanks to Spike TV and their annual SCREAM awards ceremony. Taping on Saturday, October 17 at The Greek Theater in Los Angeles, CA, “SCREAM 2009” celebrates the hottest films, tv shows, comics, actors, creators, icons and pioneers who have influenced and shaped the industry. The two-hour extravaganza will premiere on Spike TV on Tuesday, October 27 (10:00 PM-Midnight, ET/PT). While voting is now open for you guys (click here), we decided to go through and highlight some of the big nominations for you and make some early predictions. (more…) READ MORE
According to the box office numbers, many of you missed out on Drag Me to Hell, and that’s a damn shame. But at least you guys can pick it up on Blu-ray and DVD October 20th, reports Moviefone. If you pass up on this delightfully gross and scary film twice, I don’t know what’s wrong with you! Director Sam Raimi (Spider-Man trilogy, Evil Dead series) returns to the horror genre with ‘Drag Me To Hell,’ an original tale of a young woman’s desperate quest to break an evil curse. (more…) READ MORE
Were back! On this week’s Official B-D Podcast we discuss the horror games of E3 (something Dead Pixels has been covering like crazy), Roger Galloway reports exclusively from the set of Alex Aja’s Piranha 3D, Drag Me to Hell reviews and a slew of horror DVDs arriving in stores. We also chat My Bloody Valentine 3D Blu-Ray and debate whether it’s just as good on Blu-Ray as it is in theaters, while Tim and David discuss Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s new vampire book “The Strain”. Check out our official podcast page, read on or search ‘Bloody-Disgusting’ on iTunes for the latest episode.
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Arriving in theaters this Friday is Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell, one of the year’s most anticipated horror releases. To get you tuned up for the event, Bloody-Disgusting sat down with a few of the cast members, along with Sam Raimi to chat about the flick that follows a loan officer (Alison Lohman) who is ordered to evict an old woman (Lorna Raver) from her home and finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse that turns her life into a living hell. Beyond the break you can watch our exclusive one-on-one video interviews with writer/director Sam Raimi and the previously posted Alison Lohman, Lorna Raver and Justin Long. (more…) READ MORE
Arriving in theaters next Friday is Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell, his big return to horror that I think is going to surprise most of you. Beyond the break you can now watch all five clips from the film that follows a loan officer (Alison Lohman) who is ordered to evict an old woman from her home and finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse that turns her life into a living hell. Desperate, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul, while evil forces work to push her to a breaking point. (more…) READ MORE
Updated: Third clip also added. May 29th is coming upon us faster than we can keep up, and the anticipation for Sam Raimi’s big return to horror with Drag Me to Hell is through the roof. Universal has already begun screening the film to thousands of people (for free) and TV spots are airing non-stop… I think it’s safe to say they’re confident in their product. The question is, will the general public show up, or just horror fans? Hopefully word of mouth continues to propel this Evil Dead-esque masterpiece into something of legend. Universal has started unloading clips this week, but I want to stand firm in my belief that you should go into the movie having seen NOTHING. But it’s your call, read on for the second clip featuring an annoying little fly. (more…) READ MORE
In addition to the brief news that Universal Pictures’ Drag Me to Hell has officially been rated PG-13 by the MPAA for “sequences of horror violence, terror, disturbing images and language,” we’ve also posted our on-set interview with writer-director Sam Raimi, who chats about bringing this long-gestured horror-comedy to life. Don’t forget to read about the set visit by clicking here. Drag Me to hell tells the story of Christine Brown (Alison Lohman), an ambitious L.A. loan officer with a charming boyfriend, Professor Clay Dalton (Justin Long). Life is good until the mysterious Mrs. Ganush (Lorna Raver) enters their lives…and everything begins to unravel. It hits theaters on May 29th. (more…) READ MORE
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