Drag Me to Hell Collectors Edition Blu Ray Review

January 30th, 2018 by Brandon Peters

It'due south hard to believe its almost been ten years since director Sam Raimi returned to his horror roots post-obit an incredibly successful run directing three Spider-Man films. He did then in the form of the 2009 film, Elevate Me To Hell. It was more than a return to form though, it truly brought back many of the things we loved about his Evil Expressionless trilogy that laid fallow about twenty years prior. While it didn't take hold of the earth on fire in the summer of 2009, the motion picture opened to rave reviews and took in a solid box office booty.  And now its getting a suped up edition from Scream Factory, which feels kinda crazy but it is almost ten years old already. But, hell, I'thousand down for it. Hopefully, yous will be too when information technology arrives on February 13th, but in time for that Valentine's Solar day watch!

Movie

Christine Brown is on her way to having it all: a devoted boyfriend, a difficult-earned job promotion, and a brilliant future. But when she has to make a tough decision that evicts an elderly woman from her house, Christine becomes the victim of an evil curse. Now she has only three days to dissuade a night spirit from stealing her soul before she is dragged to hell for an eternity of unthinkable torment.

At the time of its release, this movie was the closest affair I ever idea I'd become to another Evil Dead moving picture. It was almost a "cousin" to information technology, with Raimi's influence and the overall feel and expect of the supernatural in the picture feeling of the same universe as the Ash Williams series. Little did I know that four years later we'd go a remake with Raimi'south hand in it that I'd savour quite a fleck. I thought THAT would be it. AND At present, we are nigh to indulge ourselves in third flavor of Ash Vs The Evil Expressionless, continuing on the story that I idea I'd never see continuing. Even with all those Raimi horror dreams come up true, Elevate Me To Hell all the same rocks and feels at one with them.

Sam Raimi simply directed i film later this (The meliorate left not talked most or remembered Oz The Great and Powerful), and going back here for this viewing make me really miss the guy's genre crafting. There's a skill and balance hither that few get and actually simply Raimi truly masters. His movement of photographic camera and putting his leads through hell for our enjoyment all stop up working like gangbusters fourth dimension in and fourth dimension out. The man blends horror and slapstick comedy (Three Stooges inspired) similar no one else. He will make hurting wait funny or a comedy crash-land hurt every bit well equally gross yous out but also take your guts busting with laughter as you are disgusted.

One petty bit of time capsuling hither, now well-nigh ten years later, are the moving picture's leads. Alison Lohman, in detail, how she never flew off into megastardom and was in everything is beyond me. Through four films I've admired her in Matchstick Men (One of my favorite Ridley Scott films), Big Fish, Beowulf and Drag Me To Hell, she's shown a tremendous corporeality of range and is game for any role she takes on. She is put through the Bruce Campbell wringer past Raimi for the moving-picture show and she relishes in it like a pro. Justin Long had a period where he was an "it" kind of guy and then didn't really disappear, just hasn't been in a ton of high profile projects. Which is a shame, he's a great addition and enjoyable unique presence in anything he'southward in.

Drag Me To Hell still holds upwards and Raimi showed he tin return to the genre that fabricated him famous without any signs of rust. Hell, honestly, he infused it into his Spider-Man films and that's what make his iii have so much more character and flavour than the two that came subsequently it. This movie was a flake disregarded at the time, but I feel has found a nice audience and can nevertheless be passed around or introduced to new faces. Oh and if you are a new face, stay away from that Unrated Version. All it does is add some actually poorly done CG effects that don't add annihilation to the movie at all.

Video

Encoding: MPEG-4 AVC

Resolution: 1080p

Attribute Ratio: 2.twoscore:1

Layers:BD-50

Clarity/Detail: For this new edition, both cuts of Drag Me To Hell have been taken from an HD master from a 2K digital intermediate.  The previous release was pretty much perfection in terms of video and audio, only needed updated from its quondam VC-1 codec.  Nonetheless, here nosotros have a new image, plucked from the same 2K DI, and it looks terrific simply like before. The image is crisp, precipitous and strong with corking detail.

Depth: Solid depth of field here in this paradigm. Characters and objects move quite freely through their environments. Rapid movements and activeness bits are quite smoothen and don't characteristic whatsoever real distortions.

Black Levels: Blacks are rich and quite deep with really adept memory of detail in darkly lit scenes likewise equally textures on surfaces, clothes and hair.

Color Reproduction: Colors are pretty stiff with skilful reds and greens. I particularly like the way Alison Lohman'due south blonde hair appears in this paradigm.

Flesh Tones: Skin tones are natural and consistent throughout the length of the moving-picture show. Moles, lip textures, sweat, stale dirt/blood, wrinkles and blemishes all show through quite clean and crisp.

Noise/Artifacts: Clean

Sound

Sound Format(s): English language 5.1 DTS-Hard disk drive MA, English 2.0 DTS-Hard disk MA

Subtitles: English

Dynamics: I'chiliad pretty sure this contains the same terrific v.1 DTS-HD MA track that was included on the original Universal release. Its a loud track and that's mixed to total on horror effect with a well-baked detailed sense of layering to the sound furnishings. I even messed around with this on my Atmos setting and it totally worked quite well and was enough of fun. If y'all have that power, fright not.

Summit:N/A

Low Frequency Extension: Loud thumps, crashes, crackling earth and more milk shake your sub to wonderful pounding degrees.

Surroundings Sound Presentation: This is a well realized rail that doesn't leave the rear speakers hanging out to dry. Every environment gets total realized to unique details coming from the dorsum channels. Movements and the whirlwind horror ones especially become a nice wicked twist and travel around the room. Its quite an awesome experience. At that place is a moment in the finale where the spirit roams around the curtains in the room and it does a full 360 through the speakers. Its haunting and incredible.

Dialogue Reproduction: Vocals are crisp and articulate throughout, no matter the insanity happening onscreen.

Extras

Drag Me To Hell – Collector's Edition is a 2-Disc Blu-ray set that contains reversible cover art featuring the original poster. The first disc contains the theatrical cut of the film and disc 2 is the unrated. Disc ane contains the previously released bonus material and the new interviews are on Disc 2.

Disc one – Theatrical Version

Production Diaries (HD, 35:09) – Hosted past Justin Long. Features behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with co- writer/director Sam Raimi, actors Allison Lohman, Justin Long, David Paymer, Dileep Rao, Lorna Raver, special effects guru Greg Nicotero, director of photography Peter Deming, and more.

Vintage Interviews (SD, 33:37) –  With director Sam Raimi and actors Alison Lohman and Justin Long from their press junkets.

Telly Spots (SD, :l)

Theatrical Trailer (SD, 2:21)

Disc 2 – Unrated Version

To Hell and Dorsum (HD, 12:36) – An interview with extra Alison Lohman. She talks most how hellish her experience was with gore things changing daily and 15 hour days with only 5 hours between shoots (The kind of treatment we've heard Bruce Campbell talk about numerous times). But, she has nothing only praise for Raimi, proverb he has a total grasp on the slapstick and how he let her change the pb's proper name from Stephanie to Christine on the first 24-hour interval of shooting. She also got shingles following the movie after filming the grave digging scene.

Curses! (HD, 15:58) – An interview with actress Lorna River. She praises Sam Raimi's understanding of blending horror and comedy with "comic book sensibility". There's a lot of her going through her character'southward arc and motivations. Nosotros besides get her detailing the car fight sequence a little fleck equally well. The moving picture appears to be one that was completely out of her element, but she sounds like she had a lot of fun doing the film and is tickled to exist talking about information technology at present.

Hitting All The Right Notes (HD, 17:10) – An interview with composer Christopher Young. He opens discussing how he saw Evil Dead and hoped to piece of work with Sam Raimi one day because they are like thinkers. Young goes over his over the top and tongue in cheek score that came to fruition because he'd scored The Gift and Spider-Man 3. His mission is to go inside the managing director's caput and see the fashion he sees the movie and does this by recording their conversation. He gets pretty deep near things with how he scores films, not just this one in detail.

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Still Gallery (Hd, 2:11)

Summary

Drag Me To Hell is an outstanding horror film that features all of Sam Raimi's strengths on display: the ability to both scare and gross you out and then much you tin can do naught simply laugh. Some are going to exist humble about whether or not to pick up this release. I recall the video quality is still at that place and they've tossed in a trio of very overnice new interviews. Its been a while since this came out or you probably picked information technology up for zippo more than $5, so if you're a big fan like me, its a decent double dip. If you're a so-so person, yous'll probably be happy with what you already take. And if you've never owned it, this is the i to have.

Brandon is the host, producer, writer and editor of The Brandon Peters Evidence (thebrandonpetersshow.com) on the Creative Zombie Studios Network. At Why And so Blu he is a Writer/Reviewer. Brandon is a lifelong obsessive movie nerd. As eager to educate in the world of film every bit I am to learn. An avid lover of horror, schlock and trash. You can also find older essays on his blog Naptown Nerd (naptownnerd.blogspot.com).

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