Drag Me to Hell

You know, with all my bitching about the audience at the movie on Saturday, I never really said anything about how I felt about the movie.

In retrospect, I am not so sure I liked it. Time for yet another horror fan confession: I'm not a huge Sam Raimi horror fan. I thought Evil Dead was cool and Evil Dead II is a-ight, and I'm glad to have the Boomstick edition of Army of Darkness, but those movies don't get regular replay for me. I'm more likely to watch all of them with the commentary track on than without and that's mostly to hear the lovely voice of Bruce Campbell. His dramatic stuff (A Simple Plan; The Gift) is more to my liking. I think I've said before I don't like a whole lot of comedy in my horror. I can appreciate a degree of goofiness, but once you hit Looney Tunes levels I'm annoyed. And gross-out gags get really boring really quick.

DMtH has A LOT of Looney Tunes/gross-out horror. There are about 5 or more scenes with stuff going into our heroine's (?) mouth. Plus there are loogies (sp.) and maggots and skanky false teeth and a geyser nosebleed. I did jump once or twice and a particular fight scene was fun to watch, but overall it just kind of really didn't do much for me. Maybe when it comes out on DVD, I will see it again to determine just how much that shitty audience affected my viewing pleasure.

I tell what is good though. NOTLP did an episode on Session 9 a few weeks ago, so I rewatched that last night. Man, that movie is so goddamn creepy. That's my kind of horror. I'd rather have a (fairly) bloodless atmospheric movie than some grossfest with a lame story. And by the way, every thing about Justin Long oozed 'douchebag'. As if those smug Mac vs. PC commercials didn't make me hate him enough, he just bugs me. Plus I recall that he was in Jeepers Creepers and I hated that movie. Also. the Mac product placements were really fucking irritating. Stuff your little Apple up your ass.

So, if I were to rate DMtH right now after seeing it this weekend, I'd give it maybe a two (out of five). However, it might actually be a 3, but my theatre-mates just sucked so much of the fun from the whole experience. And it can't be blamed on it being PG-13 because there were plenty of stupid grown-folks in my screening. (Also PG-13 does not mean 'bring your 6-year-old).

I really need to win the Powerball so I can build a house in the middle of a field with no surrround neighbors and a private theatre in the basement (like you used to see on Cribs). I just really don't like other human beings.