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* [[Acceptable Ethnic Targets]] - The [[Roma]] again.
** On the other hand, her grievance is legitimate, although she obviously takes it too far.
*** Her grievance is not legitimate. However, this trope still doesn't really apply to the Roma, because the implication was that Ganush was ''right'' to curse Christine and that she deserved it. The actual acceptable ethnic target is white people (especially pretty white blonde girls).
* [[Acceptable Professional Targets]] - Bankers. The movie implies, and many viewers also took the position, that Christine deserved her fate for not giving the gypsy woman another extension, never mind that she gave no reason for Chris to think she'd be able to make the next payment this time.
* [[Accidental Aesop]]/[[Space Whale Aesop]]: '''''Always''''' double-check something, or else you will be dragged down to hell for it.
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** [http://www.slashfilm.com/is-drag-me-to-hell-really-about-a-girl-with-an-eating-disorder/ There's also the theory that the movie is actually about eating disorders.] ''And it makes sense''.
*** Her eating disorder killed the seance lady?
** Another interpretation in this vein is that, instead of being cursed by Mrs. Ganush (who's just a red herring), Christy was cursed by the Lamia (who assumes Mrs. Ganush's appearance throughout the movie, starting with the parking lot scene). In this case, the Lamia is a traveling demon that preys upon vulnerable individuals (like Christy with her eating disorder, social climbing, and guilt over denying Mrs. Ganush), a common premise in folklore. The Lamia torments its victims with vivid hallucinations, the intent being to trick them into damning themselves by compromising their moral and spiritual values, after which the Lamia is free to steal their soul (note how the psychic warns Christy against graverobbing and divination). This is as written in the Bible, where demons may only tempt mortals and cannot violate their free will (the acts committed by a person during possession are not done of their own free will and therefore do not damn their soul). [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy|Had Christy not done the things she did to get rid of the curse]], the most important being that ''[[What the Hell, Hero?|she believed she had the right to damn someone else's soul to Hell]]'', [[Hoist
*** Two problems with this: Sylvia's granddaughter implies that she already knows about the curse and what it's going to do to her, and there's no suggestion that the young Mexican boy did anything after apparently being cursed that would have deserved being dragged to Hell.
* [[Complete Monster]] - Sylvia Ganush failed to repay her loan extensions twice, and when she's denied it a third time, she makes a fool of herself in front of an entire bank while begging for a third extension, then blames ''Christy'' for shaming ''her'' and then [[Disproportionate Retribution|curses her to HELL for it]]! Her granddaughter arguably falls into this for thinking Christy deserves her fate too.
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** The first Horizon crosser is the offscreen Romani (possibly Sylvia) who curses a ten year old Mexican boy to ''Hell'' for stealing a necklace. A necklace his parents immediately tried to return.
* [[Nausea Fuel]]: The movie has an odd interest in [[Nausea Fuel]] material of its own winding up in Christine's mouth.
* [[Retroactive Recognition]] - Latecomers to the movie may recognize Rham Jas from one of his subsequent blockbusters, either as [[Avatar (
* [[Special Effect Failure]] - The CGI isn't too convincing when Christine drops an anvil on Ganush.
* [[Squick]] - Especially for a PG-13, this film is [[Battlestar Galactica|frakkin']] disgusting. But in the most awesome possible way.
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* [[The Woobie]] - Christine, Clay, the Mexican boy and his parents, and the two animals involved in the plot.
** Well, considering that both of these animals were killed by Christine, this would arguably make her [[Jerkass Woobie]].
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Didactic?]]: Some fans actually think the whole thing is an allegory for eating disorders like bulimia, and how society has some "ideal image" of how a woman should look that causes such an illness.
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