Drag Me to Hell (2009) – Film Analysis
Drag Me to Hell is an American supernatural horror film, directed by Sam Raimi. Sam Raimi wrote the film with his brother Ivan Raimi. Previous to this Sam Raimi directed some of the Spiderman films. Drag Me to Hell was released May 29, 2009. The plot of Drag Me to Hell focuses on a loans officer Christine Brown (Alison Lohman). The main female character Christine Brown had been told that she needs to show she can make tough decisions if she wants to become the assistant manager which is on offer. She then refuses to extend a loan to impress her boss, unlucky for her it was an old gypsy woman Mrs Ganush (Lorna Raver). The Gypsy Women retaliates by cursing Christine saying “after three days of escalating torment, will plunge her into the depths of hell to burn for eternity”. The film starts off with a couple seeking the help of a medium because their son claims to see and hear ‘monsters’. This is similar to the case of Christines curse, however the boy stole from gypsies and tried to return it but they refused to take it back. The medium performed a séance but after they are attacked by an unseen force that pulls the boy into hell. The medium swears to one day encounter the force again. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was released to wide critical acclaim. Drag Me to Hell was a huge box office success, making $90.8 million (£56.7 million) worldwide. This film was made and released on a $30 million (£18.7 million) budget. Drag Me to Hell has won 2 awards; Best Horror Film at the 2009 Scream Awards and the 2010 Saturn Awards.
Drag Me to Hell cast:
- Alison Lohman as Christine Brown
- Justin Long as Professor Clayton "Clay" Dalton
- Lorna Raver as Mrs. Sylvia Ganush
- David Paymer as Mr. Jim Jacks
- Dileep Rao as Rham Jas
- Reggie Lee as Stu Rubin
- Adriana Barraza as Shaun San Dena
- Chelcie Ross as Leonard Dalton
- Molly Cheek as Trudy Dalton
- Bojana Novakovic as Ilenka Ganush
- Art Kimbro as the voice of the Lamia
This
supports Propps character types. Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) would be the
victim/protaganist and Mrs. Ganush (Lorna Raver) is the antaganist.
House of Wax (2005) – Film
analysis
House of Wax is
a 2005 American horror film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. House of Wax (2005)
is an adapted remake of the 1953 version of House of Wax. The plot is about 6 people, 5 friends and a
brother of one of the female friends, who is considered as a rebellious
teenager. They decide to camp out for the night in the middle of nowhere on
their way to an American football game. One of the cars has car troubles and
won’t start. 4 people in the group decide to continue and drive to the game and
2 others accept a lift into a town by a stranger. The town that are are dropped
of to only has two people living there, two brothers. It turns out everyone in
the village had either fled or been murdered and turned to wax. The friends
don’t realise this. The 4 friends that travelled to the football game are stuck
in traffic and decide to turn around and go back to the camp site. 2 of the 4
friends that decided to go back to the camp decide to drive into the town and
look for the other two friends. At this point one of the two friends who
originally first went into the town has turned and is turned to wax and put
into the museum. Eventually most of them
die besides the twins who accidently burn the house of wax down. Police
eventually arrive and tell the survivers the town wasn’t even on the map and
they have been murdering for years. One of the police officers gets a call and
is informed that there was a third brother; that third brother was the one who
gave 2 of them a lift. It turned out it was all a set up.
House of Wax
cast:
- Elisha Cuthbert as Carly Jones
- Chad Michael Murray as Nick Jones
- Brian Van Holt as Bo Sinclair /
Vincent Sinclair
- Paris Hilton as Paige Edwards
- Jared Padalecki as Wade Felton
- Jon Abrahams as Dalton Chapman
- Robert Ri'chard as Blake
- Andy Anderson as Sheriff
- Damon Herriman as Lester Sinclair
- Dragitsa Debert as Trudy Sinclair
- Murray Smith as Dr. Victor Sinclair
- Thomas Adamson as Young Bo
- Sam Harkess as Young Vincent
- Emma Lung as Jennifer
Shaun
of the Dead (2004) – Film Analysis
Shaun of the dead is an English zombie comedy horror, directed and co-written by Edgar Wright and also co-written by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost who star in the film. The film is the first of a trilogy which Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright call ‘The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy’ with Hot Fuzz (2007) as the second and The World’s End (TBA) as the third. The film was a great success in the UK and the US. Shaun of the Dead was a BAFTA nominee.
Shaun (Simon Pegg) is a man attempting to sort his life out, trying to get his girlfriend back. At the same time he has to deal with a zombie apocalypse. Shaun plans to gather his friends and family and hide at the local pub – The Winchester. Things start to go wrong when they all start to argue and the zombies eventually get into the pub. At the end 3 survive – Shaun, Shaun’s girlfreind Liz (Kate Ashfield) and Ed (Nick Frost). However Ed gets bitten and infected and survives as a zombie.
- Simon Pegg as Shaun
- Nick Frost as Ed
- Kate Ashfield as Liz
- Lucy Davis as Dianne
- Dylan Moran as David
- Penelope Wilton as Barbara
- Bill Nighy as Phillip
- Jessica Stevenson as Yvonne
- Peter Serafinowicz as Pete
- Rafe Spall as Noel
- Martin Freeman as Declan
- Reece Shearsmith as Mark
- Tamsin Greig as Maggie
- Julia Deakin as Yvonne's mum
- Matt Lucas as Cousin Tom
- Mark Donovan as Hulking Zombie
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