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100With brother Ivan as his co-writer, Sam tosses out a delightful batch of tense, hilarious set pieces. The two are giggling behind the proceeds like the Coen brothers scripting fresh off a critical triumph.
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100Raimi has made the most crazy, fun, and terrifying horror movie in years.
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With that fire in his belly, Raimi's Drag Me to Hell does everything we want a horror film to do: It is fearsomely scary, wickedly funny and diabolically gross.
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100Brilliantly nasty little horror film.
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100This film is cunningly crafted in every detail--direction, script, performances, comic timing, special effects--from thunderous start to delicious finish.
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100As 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.
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91Raimi's new film feels distinctly unburdened and fun, happily frolicking in its own pulp silliness.
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90Raimi's still very much up to his old tricks, retaining that deliriously over-the-top brand of Grand Guignol horror that he had abandoned by the mid-'90s in pursuit of other genres.
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90Unlike so much contemporary horror, it's devoid of sadism and mean-spiritedness. 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.
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90Truly, this is manna from hell.
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90After directing three Spider-Man movies, Sam Raimi makes a masterful return to the horror genre.
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89Nothing short of horror-hound heaven.
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88Raimi knows how to modulate his technique, as with the coolly controlled morality tale "A Simple Plan," but he's a firm believer in the power of an active, expressive camera, as well as the value of insinuation.
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83Raimi as a filmmaker is clearly having more fun than he's had in years. So will his fans.
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80Thrilling and often hilarious, it's good to see one of Hollywood's most inventive directors fully reinvigorated. On this form, Spider-Man 4 should be a belter.
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If the booga-booga shocks are sometimes repetitive, Drag Me does its audience right in its last-act burst of giddy momentum, sustained by crack editor Bob Murawski through a burlesque exorcism.
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80Drag Me to Hell has a tonic playfulness that's unabashedly retro, an indulgent return to Mr. Raimi's goofy, gooey roots.
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80The picture is single-mindedly devoted to pushing the audience's buttons, and who better than Raimi to do the honors?
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75Horror-movie heaven.
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75The movie is a goofy, ridiculous blast, and yet Raimi means business: Even the precociously cute kitty isn't safe in this one.
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75A Raimi-esque mix of gross-out madness and sick laughs.
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If you can stomach the projectile-sputum gags and stapled-eyelid attack scene, it's hilarious.
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75A popcorn film that aims to entertain -- nothing more, nothing less -- and it achieves that goal admirably.
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75Drag Me to Hell is unlike any scary thriller in a while: frightening, frenzied and fun.
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75Working with his brother Ivan, Sam Raimi is laughing with us - and often louder than we are.
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75Fear not those who worried about Raimi after the last "Spiderman" debacle. There is no musical number here. The tongue is planted firmly in-cheek. The spirit of "Evil Dead" lives on.
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75An unabashedly schlocky, expertly executed blend of jack-in-the-box jolts and humour.
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75Quick and lowdown-delightful. It's also a graveyard or two up in class from the torture films that, in recent years, have redefined horror for the worse.
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70Drag Me to Hell is an eyeball-gouging lesson in how to make a genre flick and live to tell about it.
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63Even if the obligatory third-act twist arrives with all the subtlety of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Drag Me to Hell otherwise steers mostly clear of predictability.
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50Drag Me to Hell is pure cheese. Goat cheese.
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50Although Drag Me to Hell mostly fails as horror, it achieves sporadic success as a comedy.
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