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Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: Raimi's Drag Me to Hell does everything we want a horror film to do: It is fearsomely scary, wickedly funny and diabolically gross, three stomach-churning states that argue for taking a pass on the $10 box of popcorn. Read more
Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies: 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. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: This hellaciously effective B-movie comes with a handy moral tucked inside its scares, laughs and Raimi's specialty, the scare/laugh hybrid. Moral: Be nice to people. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: The first horror flick of the mortgage crisis, this is great pulp and Lohman is game for everything. Read more
James Rocchi, MSN Movies: Raimi's made this "Drag" a race, designed to chill you, thrill you and give you an excuse to clutch your date's arm with each of the many jolts and jumps it delivers as it twists and turns to the finish line. Read more
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: At a time when horror is defined by limp Japanese retreads or punishing exercises in pure sadism, Drag Me to Hell has a tonic playfulness that's unabashedly retro, an indulgent return to Mr. Raimi's goofy, gooey roots. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Truly, this is manna from hell. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: The true test of any successful horror flick is how wretched it makes you feel. At the very least, it should inspire a banquet of dread or offer a canape of anxiety. After Drag Me to Hell you won't mind walking home alone. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The biggest howls involve the delicate heroine helplessly ingesting or inhaling bugs, worms, and bile--physical equivalents of her destructive emotions--and Raimi ends the story with the sort of black punch line that's become his signature. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: O, joy, a horror flick that's smart and funny, as well as cringeworthy for all the right reasons. And up to speed on the mortgage crisis too. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: [The characters are] so innocuous, and they're played with so little verve, that you don't feel a strong identification when their lives are wrecked. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Going gloriously over the top, Raimi simply aims to make us laugh and scare the pants off us, and he hits the mark on both fronts. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Raimi succeeds at giving literal moviemaking a good name, while providing diabolic catharsis for many a disgruntled homeowner. Read more
Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle: Is it as hilarious as the Evil Deads? Almost. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: The dichotomies director Sam Raimi presents within that familiar genre are what make this such a kick. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Going back to his roots, Raimi has made the most crazy, fun, and terrifying horror movie in years. Read more
Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter: Diabolically entertaining. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The wait for a truly scary movie -- for a rambunctious, slam-bang, all-out, slap-you-sideways horror picture -- is finally over. Read more
Scott Von Doviak, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com: Entertaining enough in its squishy-squirmy way, and the payoff delivers a little jolt of that old time Raimi magic. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: A near-brilliant comedy disguised as a quickie horror flick, Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell is the year's most frightfully hilarious movie so far. Read more
Bruce Diones, New Yorker: Playful and relentlessly scary. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: If all you want are shocks and bumps and screams and laughs and a couple of they-did-NOT-just-show-that jawdroppers -- then Drag Me To Hell is definitely the funhouse ride for you. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Drag Me to Hell is an eyeball-gouging lesson in how to make a genre flick and live to tell about it. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Drag Me to Hell is pure cheese. Goat cheese. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Raimi sure-handedly blends thrills with giggles in this old-fashioned, newfangled, over-the-top hair-raiser. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: With the same twisted humor Raimi displayed in Evil Dead and Army of Darkness, his Drag Me to Hell is wickedly jolly and disturbingly frightening -- often at the same time. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Parts of it are entertaining, although I'm not convinced they're enjoyable entirely for the reasons intended by the filmmakers. Read more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: At times I hated it for pushing my buttons so relentlessly and with such obvious touches, but I can't deny it: I found it entertaining as hell. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: 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. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: There's no truth in the title. Drag Me to Hell is horror-movie heaven. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: The looseness Raimi allows himself here results in an especially joyous kind of filmmaking, the sort where the filmmaker's delight in scaring us (and making us laugh) becomes part of the movie's fabric. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The characters are solid, the shocks are grab-your-heart-medicine scary, the story glides from twist to twist with diabolical grace. And it's damned funny. Read more
Kevin C. Johnson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: A junky but entertaining throwback. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: An unabashedly schlocky, expertly executed blend of jack-in-the-box jolts and humour. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Apart from the evocative title, which is a great nod to '50s drive-in fare, the film is as predictable as a meal beneath the golden arches. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Inspired by the tone of B-movie scare epics of the '50s, they've made a slick, mostly predictable homage-pastiche that itself rates about a B-. Read more
David Fear, Time Out: Raimi's return to Evil Dead territory is proof that, respectability be damned, he can still whip up a slapstick splatterfest -- albeit a PG-13 one -- when the mood strikes. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Drag Me to Hell is unlike any scary thriller in a while: frightening, frenzied and fun. Read more
Peter Debruge, Variety: Scant of plot and barren of subtext, the pic is single-mindedly devoted to pushing the audience's buttons, and who better than Raimi to do the honors? Read more
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Raimi, ever the engineer, takes pleasure in screwing with audience identification, shifting between collaboration and contempt for our heroine. Read more
Dan Kois, Washington Post: As in the best horror movies, Drag Me to Hell keeps the audience on the edge of hysteria throughout, so that every thump sets the heart racing and every joke earns a slightly out-of-control laugh. Read more