Word: raimi
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...Drag Me to Hell (Sam Raimi; in theaters 5/29) Note to bankers: don't cut off loans to your customers, at least if one is a crazy Gypsy. Alison Lohman does and suffers gorily in this schlocky shocker from the director of Spider-Man and Evil Dead...
...other debut film, the gypsy-curse shocker Drag Me to Hell, looks to come in an O.K. third, with $16.6 million. Like Up, it's a film with no stars, but a star director of sorts: Sam Raimi, who did the Spider-Man movies and, ages ago, the Evil Dead cult trilogy. Credit Drag Me to Hell's success to a generous PG-13 rating and to the loyalty of genre fans who haven't been able to go to a new horror film in, gee, almost two months. (See TIME's video "Making Drag Me to Hell More Hellish...
...films usually dominate, this year sensation often ran rampant. Blood spurted from necks, noses, guts and, in one memorable gross-out moment, a penis. Extreme characters spanned the globe: a vampire-priest in Seoul, a French crime lord in Hong Kong and an American drug-dealer in Tokyo. Sam Raimi brought a horror movie about a gypsy curse, and Quentin Tarantino enlisted in a fantasy World War II. Gay lovers disported in China, and Ang Lee found psychedelic bliss in Woodstock, 1969. Hard-core sex and violence splattered the giant Lumiere screen...
...month often dominated by a Sam Raimi action film: his Spider-Man trilogy has earned $2.5 billion worldwide. But Raimi earned his early rep, or notoriety, with the low-budget gross-out Evil Dead horror films, and his Cannes entry, beguilingly titled Drag Me to Hell, marks a return to those dark roots...
...Michael Lynton (speaking to the BBC) is already talking about "a fourth, a fifth and a sixth and on and on ... as many as we can make good stories for." (According to some critics, that criterion didn't govern Spider-Man 3.) No word yet on whether director Sam Raimi or star Tobey Maguire will return. SCORE...