{"id":4,"date":"2009-06-19T20:38:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T03:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviecuriosities.co.cc\/?p=4"},"modified":"2010-04-17T20:33:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T03:33:36","slug":"drag-me-to-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviecuriosities.fmuk.org.uk\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Drag Me to Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before anyone asks, I have not seen any of the Evil Dead<\/em> movies, though they’ve been on my “to watch” list for quite some time. However, I have seen Alien<\/em>, The Shining<\/em>, Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em> and the Friday the 13th<\/em> remake. I haven’t seen The Exorcist<\/em>, though I did read the screenplay for it. If you’d care to count Bubba Ho-Tep<\/em>, Grindhouse<\/em> or Let the Right One In<\/em>, I’ve seen those, too. In any case, I thought I had seen enough of the horror genre to decide that it just wasn’t for me. I thought that if this is the best that the genre could offer, then there would really be nothing in cinema that could truly scare me.<\/p>\n

I was fucking wrong.<\/p>\n

Except for a small amount of comedy relief moments, this movie was specifically, precisely and expertly crafted for one purpose and one purpose only: To scare the ever-loving shit out of anyone who sees it. If you go in expecting a life-affirming theme in the narrative or closure in the ending, all you’ll get is a stiff middle finger and several near heart attacks. And the movie makes no apologies for it.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure if this was an experience I’d want to repeat anytime soon, let alone on a regular basis, but I’m certainly glad I saw it. Every aspiring film buff needs to know exactly how it feels to be scared witless by a movie, and I’m glad to finally have such an experience to measure other films against.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An unapologetic and fucked-up gross-out scarefest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":734,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multiplex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3uOb3-4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviecuriosities.fmuk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviecuriosities.fmuk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviecuriosities.fmuk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviecuriosities.fmuk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviecuriosities.fmuk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/moviecuriosities.fmuk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/moviecuriosities.fmuk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviecuriosities.fmuk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviecuriosities.fmuk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviecuriosities.fmuk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}