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Avg. Critic Score: 83 out of 100 Universal acclaim Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
13 Iffy for 13+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    This film is cunningly crafted in every detail--direction, script, performances, comic timing, special effects--from thunderous start to delicious finish. Read full review

  • 100
    Washington Post |

    As in the best horror movies, Drag Me to Hell keeps the audience on the edge of hysteria throughout, so that every thump sets the heart racing and every joke earns a slightly out-of-control laugh. Read full review

  • 100
    Los Angeles Times |

    With that fire in his belly, Raimi's Drag Me to Hell does everything we want a horror film to do: It is fearsomely scary, wickedly funny and diabolically gross. Read full review

  • 100
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Raimi has made the most crazy, fun, and terrifying horror movie in years. Read full review

  • 90
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    Raimi's still very much up to his old tricks, retaining that deliriously over-the-top brand of Grand Guignol horror that he had abandoned by the mid-'90s in pursuit of other genres. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Jeannette Catsoulis

    Drag Me to Hell has a tonic playfulness that's unabashedly retro, an indulgent return to Mr. Raimi's goofy, gooey roots. Read full review

  • 80
    Variety |

    The picture is single-mindedly devoted to pushing the audience's buttons, and who better than Raimi to do the honors? Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    If you can stomach the projectile-sputum gags and stapled-eyelid attack scene, it's hilarious. Read full review

  • 75
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Horror-movie heaven. Read full review

  • 75
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Drag Me to Hell is unlike any scary thriller in a while: frightening, frenzied and fun. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 13+ More scares than gore, but still too much for young kids.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this is a review of the movie seen in theaters and not the unrated version available on DVD. Many of the scares, jumps, and jolts in this horror/action movie from Spider-Man director Sam Raimi are played for comic effect. Still, it's quite bloody, and along with the scary moments and gore, there's extensive discussion of curses, spells, ghosts, and spirits. Surprisingly, the film also has an ethical core, as the main character makes several tough decisions and tries to do the right thing despite implacable odds -- though she occasionally fails.
  • Families can talk about the choices Christine faces. What could her character have done differently? What would the cost of those decisions be?
  • Families can also discuss the tradition of horror films as cautionarytales; do the scares and startling moments make the message go downmore easily?
The good stuff
  • message true2 Positive messages: For all of the movie's horror-film trappings and scares, the message about the consequences of your ethical choices is quite strong.
  • rolemodels true1 Positive role models: Lohman's character repeatedly struggles to do the right thing. The movie offers a stereotypical depiction of "Gypsies," but it's notmalicious and is in keeping with the movie's horror-film historicalcontext.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: High on scares, but they're peppered with some humor. Extensive fighting and scuffling, with a mix of graphic imagery and good-natured goofiness; blood, but in such outlandish amounts that the effect is ultimately more cartoony than grisly. An old woman grapples with the main character, who fights her off with fists, a stapler, and the laws of gravity; a staple is plunged into human flesh. A spectral vision is hit by a falling heavy object, to squishy, comedic effect; spectral forces hurl, batter, and buffet people around. A machete is used. Discussion and depiction of animal sacrifice.
  • sex false2 Sex: Kissing; an unmarried couple wakes up in the same bed. Some wearing of damp, clingy clothing on the main character's part.
  • language false3 Language: Extensive use of "hell," also occasional use of "damn," "ass," "pissed," "s--t," "screw," "bitch," "Christ's sake," "oh my God," "goddamn," "whore," and one barely articulated, under-the-breath use of "f--k."
  • consumerism false1 Consumerism: Some brands seen (Apple, Motorola) and mentioned (American Express).
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false1 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Characters drink wine and speak of relatives who were alcoholics.
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