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''[[Drag Me to Hell]]'' (2009) is Sam Raimi's long-awaited return to the [[Evil Dead|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...

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* [[Actor Allusion]]: Nearly every electronic device in the movie is an Apple, especially those used by "I'm a Mac" Justin Long.

* [[And I Must Scream]]: Twice.

* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Played straight for nearly the entire film, {{spoiler|but [[Incredibly Lame Pun|diabolically]] subverted at the end.}}

* [[Bloody Hilarious]]: The [[High-Pressure Blood|nosebleed scene]]. "Did I get any in my mouth?"

* [[Break the Cutie]]: Which eventually leads to {{spoiler|[[Kill the Cutie|killing the cutie]].}}

* [[Camp]]: It's [[Sam Raimi]]. The 'scary' scenes had as much chance of making you either scream, puke, or laugh.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|The coin}}.

* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: Averted. Oh, so very very averted.

* [[Demonic Possession]]: When the {{spoiler|Lamia}} possesses {{spoiler|the old woman, the goat, and the young guy}}.

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Christine's slaughter of her kitten.}}

** 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...''

*** To twist the knife, said daughter 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, 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''.

** The poor 10 year old kid who was condemned to hell for just stealing a gypsy necklace, which was quickly returned to them by the kid's parents, no less.

* [[Downer Ending]]: 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.}}

* [[Dragged Off to Hell]]: It's right there in the name.

* [[Easy Road to Hell]]: 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.

* [[Eye Scream]] - Staple to the eye! Fork to the eye! And let's not forget the anvil scene.

* [[Facial Horror]]: {{spoiler|As she's being dragged to hell, the flesh on Christine's face starts melting off.}}

* [[It Got Worse]]: Does it ''ever''.

* [[Jerkass]]: Stu, and arguably [[Obnoxious In-Laws|Clay's mother]].

* [[Large Ham]]: The Lamia absolutely ''[[Chewing the Scenery|devours]]'' the scenery when it's summoned at the seance.

* [[Morally-Bankrupt Banker]]: Averted with Christine, played straight with her competitor.

* [[Obnoxious In-Laws]]: Well, more like Boyfriend's Obnoxious Mother.

* [[Oops, I Dropped the Keys]]: Christine does this in the car.

* [[Ontological Inertia]] - The curse set upon Christine by the old woman is still in effect {{spoiler|even after the old woman dies}}.

* [[Orifice Invasion]] - 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!

** Justin Long is one of only a handful of actors to be a Rifftrax repeat offender; he was also in ''Crossroads'' (the [[Britney Spears]] one).

* [[Roma]]

* [[Shoot the Dog]] - More like {{spoiler|stab the kitten}}.

* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]] - See [[Downer Ending]].

** ''[[Evil Dead]]'' - 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..."

*** [[Rule of Three]] - ''[[Evil Dead]] II'' has a [[High-Pressure Blood|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.

* [[Voice of the Legion]]: The Lamia speaks like this whenever it possesses someone.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]]: Cursed to be dragged into hell and told she deserves it just because she wouldn't give a third extension.

* [[Yank the Dog's 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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