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** The Asshole Victim is Sylvia 'You do anything to upset me and I'll send you to hell' Ganush. She sends Christine to hell for not giving her an extension to a loan she in all appearances has no intention of paying, and a little boy for taking a necklace despite the necklace being returned. When she dies were 'supposed' to feel sorry for her, but given what she's done so far were not given a reason to believe she was a good person.
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** She does however become this by the end of the movie as her desperation grows. Digging up a womans grave, practicing black magic, performing a ritual sacrifice of an animal and at one point tried to pass her fate off to another.
** The Asshole Victimis 'appears' to be Sylvia 'You do anything to upset me and I'll send you to hell' Ganush. She sends Christine to hell for not giving her an extension to a loan she in all appearances has no intention of paying, and a little boy for taking a necklace despite the necklace being returned. When she dies were 'supposed' to feel sorry for her, but given what she's done so far were not given a reason to believe she was a good person.person.
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** The Asshole Victim is Sylvia 'You do anything to upset me and I'll send you to hell' Ganush. She sends Christine to hell for not giving her an extension to a loan she in all appearances has no intention of paying, and a little boy for taking a necklace despite the necklace being returned. When she dies were 'supposed' to feel sorry for her, but given what she's done so far were not given a reason to believe she was a good person.
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* KarmaHoudini - Averted with Sylvia Ganush. She dies almost immediately after cursing Christine and has her corpse exhumed and gypsy-handled. And since odds are that she killed the boy in the intro and [[spoiler: [[spoiler:the curse killed Christine as well]], there's really only one place she's going to end up. Hint, it's not {{Heaven}}.
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*** To twist the knife, said daughter actully actually telling Christine she deserves it. ''Does the daughter not know how bank extensions work?'' Someone was gonna tell her no sooner or later. Heck Heck, Ganush wasn't even mad about that, it was the fact that she tried to beg Christine for the extension, you know, something she did ''willingly''.
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*** To twist the knife, said daughter actully telling Christine she deserves it. ''Does the daughter not know how bank extensions work?'' Someone was gonna tell her no sooner or later. Heck Ganush wasn't even mad about that, it was the fact that she tried to beg Christine for the extension, you know, something she did ''willingly''.
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** Forget Christine. What about the poor 10 year old kid who was condemned to hell for just stealing a gypsy necklace? A necklace that was quickly returned to them by the kid's parents, no less.
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** Foreclose my house after repeated warnings? Fail to convince your supervisor to give me another chance? Force me to move in with my loving daughter? ''I'll condemn you to hell...''
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->''[[OhCrap Even nice people can go to hell...]]''
''DragMeToHell'' (2009) is Sam Raimi's long-awaited return to the [[EvilDead horror genre]]. The movie stars Alison Lohman as Christine Brown, a loan officer who forecloses on an old Gypsy woman's home for the sake of a promotion. ''Big'' mistake...
Features a lot of Sam Raimi's [[SignatureStyle signature styles]]. Chances are, if you like the ''EvilDead'' series, you'll like this film (or you'll hate it because it has actual funding.)
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!!This film includes examples of:
* ActorAllusion: Nearly every electronic device in the movie is an Apple, especially those used by "I'm a Mac" Justin Long.
* AnvilOnHead
* AndIMustScream: Twice.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Played straight for nearly the entire film, [[spoiler: but [[IncrediblyLamePun diabolically]] subverted at the end.]]
* BigBad: The Lamia.
* BloodyHilarious: The [[{{HighPressureBlood}} nosebleed scene]]. "Did I get any in my mouth?"
* BreakTheCutie: Which eventually leads to [[spoiler:[[KillTheCutie killing the cutie]].]]
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Christine, an untypically nice horror heroine is cursed just because she did one mean thing in her life. And even then, what she did wasn't ''that'' mean. She was just doing her job.
** Considering the elderly woman has been skipping off paying back her debts, it's a wonder why she thought Christine even deserved being cursed.
*** She didn't; Mrs Ganush is generally portrayed as a kind of villain. At the best she didn't know she was going to die, and thought Christine would simply come begging to her to lift the curse and then she could keep her house, rather than dying beforehand.
* CanYouHearMeNow: When the Lamia attacks, Christine attempts to call Clay. Of course, since [[AWizardDidIt this is a supernatural demon we're talking about]], it doesn't work; the Lamia drains the battery power in 5 seconds, [[JumpScare then has an image of Mrs. Ganush jumping at Christine appear on the screen]].
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The coin]].
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Averted. Oh, so very very averted
* CoolCar: Sam Raimi includes his 1973 Oldsmobile in all his movies. Here it is the Gypsy woman's.
* DeadlyFireworksDisplay: [[spoiler:The ending.]]
* DemonicPossession: When the [[spoiler:Lamia]] possesses [[spoiler:the old woman, the goat, and the young guy]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: Foreclose my house after repeated warnings? Fail to convince your supervisor to give me another chance? Force me to move in with my loving daughter? ''I'll condemn you to hell...''
** Forget Christine. What about the poor 10 year old kid who was condemned to hell for just stealing a gypsy necklace? A necklace that was quickly returned to them by the kid's parents, no less.
* DiabolusExMachina: [[spoiler: Christine thinks she's given the button to Mrs. Ganush and that the curse has been passed, but finds out that she accidentally gave her the coin instead. Cue her getting dragged to hell.]]
* DownerEnding: And '''how'''! [[spoiler: Despite all attempts to cancel out the curse and save herself from eternal damnation, Christine ends up being literally pulled down into the burning flames of Hell all the same.]]
* DraggedOffToHell: It's right there in the name.
* EasyRoadToHell: Apparently, being sent to hell is so easy that a single curse can do it regardless of how good you've lived your life or what you've done.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin - The movie is called ''DragMeToHell''. Guess what the curse does?
* EyeScream - Staple to the eye! Fork to the eye! And let's not forget the anvil scene.
* FacialHorror: [[spoiler:As she's being dragged to hell, the flesh on Christine's face starts melting off.]]
* FauxtivationalPoster - The ''Hang in There'' cat poster in Christine's bedroom.
* FireandBrimstoneHell - [[spoiler: According to the ending and Rham Jas's book, this is what Hell looks like, and Christine ends up bring dragged there. Her skin starts to melt off as a result.]]
* FortuneTeller - Rham Jas
* TheFunInFuneral: Mrs. Ganush's funeral has a festive atmosphere that would probably be more welcome at a birthday party.
* GypsyCurse
* HairOfGold
* {{Hell}} - [[CaptainObvious It's where the curse drags you.]]
* HighPressureBlood - A high pressure ''nosebleed''.
* HopeSpot - An absolutely merciless one.
* InfantImmortality - Averted in the prologue.
* InterClassRomance: Christine is clearly from humbler roots than wealthy Clay and the whole plot is caused in part because she wants a promotion to measure up to his family.
* ItGotWorse: Does it ''ever''.
* {{Jerkass}}: Stu, and arguably [[ObnoxiousInLaws Clay's mother]].
* KarmaHoudini - Averted with Sylvia Ganush. She dies almost immediately after cursing Christine and has her corpse exhumed and gypsy-handled. And since odds are that she killed the boy in the intro and [[spoiler: curse killed Christine as well]], there's really only one place she's going to end up. Hint, it's not {{Heaven}}.
** [[spoiler:If she's going to Hell anyway, would giving her the button still have worked? One wonders.]]
* LargeHam: The Lamia absolutely ''[[ChewingTheScenery devours]]'' the scenery when it's summoned at the seance.
* MorallyBankruptBanker: Averted with Christine, played straight with her competitor.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Well, more like Boyfriend's Obnoxious Mother.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: When Christine realizes that she used the wrong envelope]]
* OopsIDroppedTheKeys: Christine does this in the car.
* OntologicalInertia - The curse set upon Christine by the old woman is still in effect [[spoiler: even after the old woman dies]].
* OrificeInvasion - The fly that ends up going into one of Christine's nostrils while she is sleeping, audily buzzes around inside her nasal cavity for several seconds, then crawls out her ''other'' nostril. And she doesn't wake up!
* OuterLimitsTwist
* RedemptionInTheRain - When Christine finally [[spoiler:emerges from the [[RiseFromYourGrave gypsy woman's grave]] in the rain and it montages into her taking a shower]]. Subverted in that [[spoiler:it's not over just yet]].
* {{Rifftrax}} - Want to know how to suck all the horror and tension out of a scary movie, then replace it with laughter? Get Mike, Kevin and Bill on the job.
** Justin Long is one of only a handful of actors to be a Rifftrax repeat offender; he was also in ''Crossroads'' (the BritneySpears one).
* {{Roma}}
* RuleOfThree - Ganush pulling out Christine's hair. Verges on RunningGag.
** There's also the fact that the Lamia [[spoiler:torments its victims for three days before actually coming to drag them to Hell.]]
* RunningGag: If something gross and scary turns up on screen, rest assured it's going to end up in Christine's mouth. Thank god she never finds a flasher.
* SadlyMythtaken - So off, it ''must'' be intentional. Lamiae are Greek, female, (usually) half-serpent demons that either eat children or young men in the vein of succubi. The Lamia in the movie is a goat (the fortune-teller used an illustration of Baphomet while explaining everything to Christine). They must've been keeping the real Lamia in mind, because during its first visit to Christine its silhouette is first a shapely woman, which then changes into a goat.
* ScareChord - Loads of it.
* ShakyPOVCam
* ShootTheDog - More like [[spoiler:stab the kitten]].
* ShootTheShaggyDog - See DownerEnding.
* ShoutOut - Two big ones.
** ''EvilDead'' - When the [[spoiler: Lamia possesses people, it might as well be a Deadite. It even makes a call back to the classic line "I'll swallow your soul"]]
*** A further ''Evil Dead'' shout-out occurs in Clay's description of the cottage he plans to take Christine to for the weekend - "Lots of trees, private..."
*** The AnvilOnHead - EyeScream bit is a direct callback to ''EvilDead II'', which has almost the exact same effect in different circumstances.
*** RuleOfThree - ''EvilDead II'' has a [[HighPressureBlood blood fountain]] in the basement, ''Army of Darkness'' has one in the pit, this has one [[spoiler: in Christine's office.]]
*** The cat scene is a direct visual callback to "YOU LOVED HER!" from the original.
** ''NightOfTheDemon''/''Curse Of The Demon'' - Sam Raimi knew they were basically doing a [[InspiredBy retread]] of this classic British horror movie, right down to the manner of the [[spoiler: Lamia's]] manifestations and the train station ending. Though, to be fair, that film didn't have a DownerEnding. If it weren't for the change of characters and location, it might as well have been a [[TheRemake Remake]].
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch! - "Choke on it, bitch!"
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: This is one possible interpretation of the film.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil - The trailers feature a part of the last scene of the film. It may not necessarily be seen as a major spoiler. Many viewers may see it as snippet from a final showdown or something, as opposed to the last thing that happens. [[spoiler: it's only when the climax occurs with that scene not yet happening that you realize that Christine is fucked.]]
* VoiceOfTheLegion: The Lamia speaks like this whenever it possesses someone.
* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: Should have given the old lady that third extension.
** Or Rham Jas should have told Christine to transfer the curse to another person from the get-go instead of giving her the run-around.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: Cursed to be dragged into hell and told she deserves it just because she wouldn't give a third extension.
* {{Yank The Dogs Chain}}: Christine actually gets two of these in the film. The first is after the ritual where it seems they successfully got the Lamia off her back. [[spoiler: Only to be told they just ''banished'' it away for the moment and the curse is still in effect. If that wasn't bad enough, the only one who could stop it just died using up all her energy]]. So she's given the button in an envelope and told to give it away to another poor sap to save herself. After a few considerations [[spoiler: Christine actually makes a surprisingly smart choice and tries to give it to Ganush, despite the fact she recently died.]] After much struggle, it seems she finally pulled it off and everything all peachy. Good things are happening to her and her BF and she are set for a romantic getaway. However while waiting on the train platform. [[spoiler: Said BF pulls out the button, it having gotten mixed up during a near car accident.]] And well...the rest is history.
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->''[[OhCrap Even nice people can go to hell...]]''
''DragMeToHell'' (2009) is Sam Raimi's long-awaited return to the [[EvilDead horror genre]]. The movie stars Alison Lohman as Christine Brown, a loan officer who forecloses on an old Gypsy woman's home for the sake of a promotion. ''Big'' mistake...
Features a lot of Sam Raimi's [[SignatureStyle signature styles]]. Chances are, if you like the ''EvilDead'' series, you'll like this film (or you'll hate it because it has actual funding.)
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!!This film includes examples of:
* ActorAllusion: Nearly every electronic device in the movie is an Apple, especially those used by "I'm a Mac" Justin Long.
* AnvilOnHead
* AndIMustScream: Twice.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Played straight for nearly the entire film, [[spoiler: but [[IncrediblyLamePun diabolically]] subverted at the end.]]
* BigBad: The Lamia.
* BloodyHilarious: The [[{{HighPressureBlood}} nosebleed scene]]. "Did I get any in my mouth?"
* BreakTheCutie: Which eventually leads to [[spoiler:[[KillTheCutie killing the cutie]].]]
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Christine, an untypically nice horror heroine is cursed just because she did one mean thing in her life. And even then, what she did wasn't ''that'' mean. She was just doing her job.
** Considering the elderly woman has been skipping off paying back her debts, it's a wonder why she thought Christine even deserved being cursed.
*** She didn't; Mrs Ganush is generally portrayed as a kind of villain. At the best she didn't know she was going to die, and thought Christine would simply come begging to her to lift the curse and then she could keep her house, rather than dying beforehand.
* CanYouHearMeNow: When the Lamia attacks, Christine attempts to call Clay. Of course, since [[AWizardDidIt this is a supernatural demon we're talking about]], it doesn't work; the Lamia drains the battery power in 5 seconds, [[JumpScare then has an image of Mrs. Ganush jumping at Christine appear on the screen]].
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The coin]].
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Averted. Oh, so very very averted
* CoolCar: Sam Raimi includes his 1973 Oldsmobile in all his movies. Here it is the Gypsy woman's.
* DeadlyFireworksDisplay: [[spoiler:The ending.]]
* DemonicPossession: When the [[spoiler:Lamia]] possesses [[spoiler:the old woman, the goat, and the young guy]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: Foreclose my house after repeated warnings? Fail to convince your supervisor to give me another chance? Force me to move in with my loving daughter? ''I'll condemn you to hell...''
** Forget Christine. What about the poor 10 year old kid who was condemned to hell for just stealing a gypsy necklace? A necklace that was quickly returned to them by the kid's parents, no less.
* DiabolusExMachina: [[spoiler: Christine thinks she's given the button to Mrs. Ganush and that the curse has been passed, but finds out that she accidentally gave her the coin instead. Cue her getting dragged to hell.]]
* DownerEnding: And '''how'''! [[spoiler: Despite all attempts to cancel out the curse and save herself from eternal damnation, Christine ends up being literally pulled down into the burning flames of Hell all the same.]]
* DraggedOffToHell: It's right there in the name.
* EasyRoadToHell: Apparently, being sent to hell is so easy that a single curse can do it regardless of how good you've lived your life or what you've done.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin - The movie is called ''DragMeToHell''. Guess what the curse does?
* EyeScream - Staple to the eye! Fork to the eye! And let's not forget the anvil scene.
* FacialHorror: [[spoiler:As she's being dragged to hell, the flesh on Christine's face starts melting off.]]
* FauxtivationalPoster - The ''Hang in There'' cat poster in Christine's bedroom.
* FireandBrimstoneHell - [[spoiler: According to the ending and Rham Jas's book, this is what Hell looks like, and Christine ends up bring dragged there. Her skin starts to melt off as a result.]]
* FortuneTeller - Rham Jas
* TheFunInFuneral: Mrs. Ganush's funeral has a festive atmosphere that would probably be more welcome at a birthday party.
* GypsyCurse
* HairOfGold
* {{Hell}} - [[CaptainObvious It's where the curse drags you.]]
* HighPressureBlood - A high pressure ''nosebleed''.
* HopeSpot - An absolutely merciless one.
* InfantImmortality - Averted in the prologue.
* InterClassRomance: Christine is clearly from humbler roots than wealthy Clay and the whole plot is caused in part because she wants a promotion to measure up to his family.
* ItGotWorse: Does it ''ever''.
* {{Jerkass}}: Stu, and arguably [[ObnoxiousInLaws Clay's mother]].
* KarmaHoudini - Averted with Sylvia Ganush. She dies almost immediately after cursing Christine and has her corpse exhumed and gypsy-handled. And since odds are that she killed the boy in the intro and [[spoiler: curse killed Christine as well]], there's really only one place she's going to end up. Hint, it's not {{Heaven}}.
** [[spoiler:If she's going to Hell anyway, would giving her the button still have worked? One wonders.]]
* LargeHam: The Lamia absolutely ''[[ChewingTheScenery devours]]'' the scenery when it's summoned at the seance.
* MorallyBankruptBanker: Averted with Christine, played straight with her competitor.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Well, more like Boyfriend's Obnoxious Mother.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: When Christine realizes that she used the wrong envelope]]
* OopsIDroppedTheKeys: Christine does this in the car.
* OntologicalInertia - The curse set upon Christine by the old woman is still in effect [[spoiler: even after the old woman dies]].
* OrificeInvasion - The fly that ends up going into one of Christine's nostrils while she is sleeping, audily buzzes around inside her nasal cavity for several seconds, then crawls out her ''other'' nostril. And she doesn't wake up!
* OuterLimitsTwist
* RedemptionInTheRain - When Christine finally [[spoiler:emerges from the [[RiseFromYourGrave gypsy woman's grave]] in the rain and it montages into her taking a shower]]. Subverted in that [[spoiler:it's not over just yet]].
* {{Rifftrax}} - Want to know how to suck all the horror and tension out of a scary movie, then replace it with laughter? Get Mike, Kevin and Bill on the job.
** Justin Long is one of only a handful of actors to be a Rifftrax repeat offender; he was also in ''Crossroads'' (the BritneySpears one).
* {{Roma}}
* RuleOfThree - Ganush pulling out Christine's hair. Verges on RunningGag.
** There's also the fact that the Lamia [[spoiler:torments its victims for three days before actually coming to drag them to Hell.]]
* RunningGag: If something gross and scary turns up on screen, rest assured it's going to end up in Christine's mouth. Thank god she never finds a flasher.
* SadlyMythtaken - So off, it ''must'' be intentional. Lamiae are Greek, female, (usually) half-serpent demons that either eat children or young men in the vein of succubi. The Lamia in the movie is a goat (the fortune-teller used an illustration of Baphomet while explaining everything to Christine). They must've been keeping the real Lamia in mind, because during its first visit to Christine its silhouette is first a shapely woman, which then changes into a goat.
* ScareChord - Loads of it.
* ShakyPOVCam
* ShootTheDog - More like [[spoiler:stab the kitten]].
* ShootTheShaggyDog - See DownerEnding.
* ShoutOut - Two big ones.
** ''EvilDead'' - When the [[spoiler: Lamia possesses people, it might as well be a Deadite. It even makes a call back to the classic line "I'll swallow your soul"]]
*** A further ''Evil Dead'' shout-out occurs in Clay's description of the cottage he plans to take Christine to for the weekend - "Lots of trees, private..."
*** The AnvilOnHead - EyeScream bit is a direct callback to ''EvilDead II'', which has almost the exact same effect in different circumstances.
*** RuleOfThree - ''EvilDead II'' has a [[HighPressureBlood blood fountain]] in the basement, ''Army of Darkness'' has one in the pit, this has one [[spoiler: in Christine's office.]]
*** The cat scene is a direct visual callback to "YOU LOVED HER!" from the original.
** ''NightOfTheDemon''/''Curse Of The Demon'' - Sam Raimi knew they were basically doing a [[InspiredBy retread]] of this classic British horror movie, right down to the manner of the [[spoiler: Lamia's]] manifestations and the train station ending. Though, to be fair, that film didn't have a DownerEnding. If it weren't for the change of characters and location, it might as well have been a [[TheRemake Remake]].
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch! - "Choke on it, bitch!"
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: This is one possible interpretation of the film.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil - The trailers feature a part of the last scene of the film. It may not necessarily be seen as a major spoiler. Many viewers may see it as snippet from a final showdown or something, as opposed to the last thing that happens. [[spoiler: it's only when the climax occurs with that scene not yet happening that you realize that Christine is fucked.]]
* VoiceOfTheLegion: The Lamia speaks like this whenever it possesses someone.
* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: Should have given the old lady that third extension.
** Or Rham Jas should have told Christine to transfer the curse to another person from the get-go instead of giving her the run-around.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: Cursed to be dragged into hell and told she deserves it just because she wouldn't give a third extension.
* {{Yank The Dogs Chain}}: Christine actually gets two of these in the film. The first is after the ritual where it seems they successfully got the Lamia off her back. [[spoiler: Only to be told they just ''banished'' it away for the moment and the curse is still in effect. If that wasn't bad enough, the only one who could stop it just died using up all her energy]]. So she's given the button in an envelope and told to give it away to another poor sap to save herself. After a few considerations [[spoiler: Christine actually makes a surprisingly smart choice and tries to give it to Ganush, despite the fact she recently died.]] After much struggle, it seems she finally pulled it off and everything all peachy. Good things are happening to her and her BF and she are set for a romantic getaway. However while waiting on the train platform. [[spoiler: Said BF pulls out the button, it having gotten mixed up during a near car accident.]] And well...the rest is history.
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