October 28, 2025 • 19 mins
Coming in at number 4, 2009’s “Drag Me To Hell”. Each day in the month of October we will count you down to Halloween with our favorite, not-so-obvious guaranteed horror hits! We’ll tell you why each one made the list, what the critics say, who should watch it and who should NOT and what food/drink/atmosphere to pair it with each night…. And of course, where you can watch it.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hey, there're folks. It is Tuesday, October the twenty eight.
We are in our top five on our horror hit list.
Today's movie is number four. It is a classic. It
is scary, it is goofy, it is silly, it is gross,
and it's PG thirteen. Welcome to this episode of Amy
(00:32):
and TJ as we continue our deep cuts giving you
our countdown to some of the best horror movies. Maybe
you've never heard of Roll. This is absolutely one of
our most endearing yes horror movies and it's PG thirteen.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I can't believe it's PG thirteen.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah, And honestly, we've rewatched it, and I am standing
by that statement.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I can't believe it's PG thirteen. I'm shocked by it.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
This thing is scary and it's fun, and those two
things don't always go together because it's never deliberately campy
or ridiculous. It's just good entertainment and it's just scary
enough that you keep going back to it.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
We have been watching this movie for years and years
and years and years and years, and we did not
realize it was PG thirteen until we started putting this together.
So yesterday essentially, and I said it to you, and
you said, what the hell? Because we have you announced.
Very early on we started doing this list. TJ completely
checks out. If you tell him a movie is PG thirteen,
he will not watch a PG thirteen horror movie. And
(01:37):
here we are.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Here, we are two in our top five.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I'm embarrassed, all right.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
So number four is Drag Me to Hell. And I
have to tell you. When this first came out, the
name of it turned me off. I thought this is
going to be stupid. I thought it was going to
be over the top, ridiculous, not anything I'd want to watch.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
This movie is amazing. It just I think it nails
it in.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Terms of course how scary it is, how fun it is,
how entertaining it is, how much I love the main characters,
and of course we love us some justin long long.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
This one came out in May of two thousand and nine.
It's an hour and thirty nine minutes again, this one
PG thirteen, But it is strictly in that horror genre.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
So what is this one about?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Christine Brown has a loving boyfriend and a good job
at an LA bank. Her heavenly life becomes hellish when,
in an effort to impress her boss, she denies an
old woman's request for an extension on her home loan.
In retaliation, the crone places a curse on Christine, threatening
her soul with eternal damnation. Christine seeks a psychic's help
(02:48):
to break the curse, but the price to save her
soul may be more than she can pay. This movie
is so damn good. It changed how I feel in
a park garage. It changed how I feel about even
turning someone down or upsetting someone. And you and I
actually had a moment in our relationship that was a
(03:10):
game changer based on this movie.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
But yeah, yes, I remember. There are some things in
references you can make in your life that are so
subtle that they are only a handful of people anywhere
that would get it. And I, yes made a reference
and you completely. I didn't have to explain anything. And
when you all see this movie, you will understand what
we're talking about. There is an opening scene that will
(03:35):
stay with you that essentially sets up the entire movie.
So that's what we're talking about. This one rolls I
did not realize did this well at the box office
forty two million dollars domestically another forty eight point seven
million Internationally. This thing made ninety one million dollars on
a reportedly thirty million dollar budget. Wow, that's a that's
(03:55):
a hit of a movie.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And in two thousand and nine too.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I don't know how Look, obviously, horror movies have been
around since as long as I can remember, right, But
I do feel like this type of horror movie this
was unique at that time. I think people are now directors, producers,
writers understanding the multifaceted genres that horror can take, including
(04:19):
entertaining and being kind of funny or this. I felt
like it was almost ahead of its time.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, and it was over the top at times to
a way that you still appreciate it and you seem
to be in on the gag as long. Now, of
course we talked about our guy, so I'm gonna go
we have to go back into account of how many
movies justin Long is in in our top thirty.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I had that same thought.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I had no idea that he was in as many
that we love asiot.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
We weren't using that as a factor, But it turns
out it could have been an algorithm.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
But he is once again, and you know what he is.
We anytime we were discussing this. Anytime we see Justin
Long and he's not the boy next door being a
little self deprecating, being the charming guy, it upsets us.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
He is all of that in this one.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
He's like the Knight, the Knight in shining armor who
comes to the rescue and you're just so rooting for
him and them. Alison Lohman, I don't know if you
know her name, but you definitely know her face. She's
the the Angenu. She's the female lead in this and
the girlfriend to Justin Long, the director of Sam Raimi
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and Rotten Tomato score?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Is this the biggest disparity I think on our list
in terms of critics versus audience score?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I am shocked by this.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I would have thought that the Rotten Tomato score, what
we're going to read to you would be flipped in
the direction that it is. So. The critics gave this
a ninety two percent on Rotten Tomatoes. That's about as
good as it gets. Audience score sixty two percent. Why
did there there was some group of people get together
(05:52):
to try and bring this score down. I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
How could you what this is such a.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Great audience pleaser That's why I could see how the
critics might not have taken it as seriously, or maybe
took it too seriously.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
So I'm shocked.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
What are your thoughts in reading through it? A lot
of folks, and I find this and I stop including
a lot of negative reviews because so many of them
are seem personal and contrariant, like my only reaction. Sometimes
the thing is to just oppose and to be outraged,
and so it's not even a good criticism. It just
I don't know why people are so crazy about this movie.
(06:27):
You almost be crazy. You got caught like just attacking
people for liking it. You know, that's not that's not
a criategic criticism. But the critics, at least their consensus
on this one is Sam Raimi. Now, the director, Sam
Raimi actually mentioned he has some big credits to his name,
Evil Dead, a couple of Evil Dead movies. He did
a couple of Spider Man movies. This is a big
time director that knows what he's doing. But the critic consensus.
(06:48):
Sam Raimi returns to top form with Drag Me to Hell,
a frightening, hilarious, delightfully can't be throwright.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
That's a good way to put it.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I agree with that, and we have some critic reviews,
and again ninety two percent did really really well. Drag
Me to Hell is sometimes funny and often startling horror movie.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
That is what it wants to be, and that is
what it is.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
It does.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
It throws you off, like you're yelling at the screen
what they have to do that. There's a couple of
those in This.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Movie stands as the latest in a line of occasional,
much needed reminders that the horror genre isn't going completely
downhill anytime soon.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
That's a good way to put it.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yep, the next one here a gooey, frenetic, raucous and
mind meltingly clever delight. That's a that's okay, very descriptive,
but that's kind of right. It is frenetic. This fabulously
compacked little morality tale is the most fun you'll ever have.
Analyzing our economic collapse, yeah, that comes into it as well,
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But the morality part of it, you do ask yourselves
some questions. Good people getting caught up and sometimes in
their own world and their own ambitions, and you leave
some of your morals at the door. And it does
have some of those questions.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I do agree, you do ask yourself what would I
have done? She's trying in the storyline, she's trying to
get a big raise at her bank, and so she's
basically incentivized, or she assumes she's being incentivized to turn
down risky loans basically.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So, Yes, there is a.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Big moral dilemma in the central part of this story.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
She goes against what she knows to be the right
thing for the sake of career. Yes, and hey, who
hasn't had some question or something like it?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Does? It's a core moral question.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
It's almost as if she unknowingly made a deal with
the devil. Yes, Drag me to Hell is the most
fun you'll have being scared for a long time.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Agreed, That is a really good way to put it.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
The next one is good.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Not only is it genuinely scary, it's also outrageously funny,
and for once, it's intentional.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Put it this negative one here, this next one. I
just threw this in here for you because I knew
you'd like it. It's background mythology is both totally ridiculous
and almost impossible to understand.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, obviously demonology isn't some serious scientific cause like we
get it.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Like, yeah, an old woman who wants a loan puts
a curse on the young loan officer, and you want
an understanding of the background mythology.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Okay, that's someone who doesn't watch enough horror movies.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Hey, you do your thing. Some of the audience reviews
we'll get into here. A lighthearted take on horror that
hits the features of the genre and has a few
camp moments that make it an homage to horror films.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
That's so true.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Great half half horror, thriller, dark comedy, must watch. Just
keep your keep an open mind. Basically, yes, a.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Nothing one said, it's so messed up and I absolutely
love it. Another one here, extremely comedic and extremely scary
at the same time. But then this last one here,
you could take this negative one. I just want to
throw in there again. I can't make a lot of
sense out of the negative one.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Silly, completely unhinged, disgusting, bad special effects.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
In short, a lot of fun if you're in the
right mood.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
What I mean, all of those for us, silly check,
completely unhinged, check disgusting, check bad special effeense. Those are
all in the pro column for us.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yes, right. They did it on purpose. It is so deliberate, but.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
It is a lot of fun if you're in and
it's hard to not be in the right mood.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Honestly, I would say you could watch this.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Movie going into any mood you're in, and you will
come out in a better mood.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
That is a very good This is a if there
ever is one. This is a mood boosting horror film.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
There is a reason why I cannot count how many times, personally, individually,
on my own I have turned this movie on and
it immediately puts you in a lighthearted mood. You laugh
and are scared at the same time, and genuinely scary
like genuinely scary like.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
But you know what we have to say, and we'll
get into this a little more. But we have to say.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Scary without being violent and gory, hence the PG thirteen.
So exactly who is this movie made for, who is
it not for? And why it made our list. We'll
get into all that when we come back. And I
know the moment you all are anticipating most Robock puts
all of a heart and soul into coming up with
(11:28):
a food and drink pairing for all of our movies.
What goes with a movie called Drag Me the Hell?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Stay here, welcome back, as we talk about number four
on our Halloween Horror hit list, drag Me to Hell.
But it is a fun ride on your way down.
We love this movie why it made our list. It's
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just an unforgettably good time that we revisit and have
continued to over the years. It's never a bad time
to put this movie on. The opening scene, basically where
everything goes wrong for this young woman in the movie,
is just so damn good. Again, the parking garage scene
(12:23):
is one of my favorite scenes ever in a horror movie.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Okay, the bank scene, at the open, there's a funeral scene.
There's a lot of stuff. There's a lot of stuff
to this movie, and you're right, roes it. This is
a even the parts that are uncomfortable or meant to
be scary, you still find yourself almost laughing at the joke.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
But oh, come on.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
You've gotta smile on your face while you're horrified.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
It's a lot of that stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And the woman, there's an older lady that plays central
to this even in death. She's funny. She plays such
a central role in getting you to react.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Even is it missus Goodush? Is that her name? I
believe missus Goodness.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
It's her. Everything about her is just perfect.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
So again another reason it's on our list, even though
we didn't think about it, it does when we see
justin Long, we are put at ease about whether or
not this is going to be a good film. We
know we're in good hounds, but also we know at
this point he doesn't do a lot of bullshit now
like he does quality. You can argue about jeepers, creepers
or whatever else. It's not Oscar worthy stuff, but these
(13:28):
are quality horror movies and some even are cult classics.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Correct. All right, So who's this for?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Anyone who is looking for fun, anyone who's looking to
have a good, entertaining and scary movie. I really think
this is the movie that has it all. There's something
in it for everyone.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I agree, and this is a can we recommend this
one for Kisses pg. Thirteen But I wouldn't be worried.
You know, it has a lot of the almost Nickelodeon
type grossness.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I would also make sense.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yes, yes, there is that one hundred percent, but there's
also the only thing I would caution about younger kids
is that there is there is some scary enough imagery
that it would stay with you, like in terms of
a nightmare, like seeing some of what you see in
that movie is a little scary. But you know, I
mean my kids are watching horror movies starting at eight,
(14:20):
so they were fine with this, but I would.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Just there it is scary, like it's scared me.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
And there's a witchcraft element that could creep some folks,
some adults.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Out, yes, so and who it's not for if if
you want some traditional horror movie, if you don't want
to if you just want to be scared, uncomfortable and
uneasy and you don't want to laugh, which seems weird
to me because I love doing both.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
It's nice when you can do both.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
But if you're looking for a traditional horror movie, this
might not be for you.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Go ah, have right.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I don't think this one's classified as a horror comedy.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I think it's just a horror.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, but it does have camping moment, but it's not
meant to be a goofy, throat away silly even throw
away cliche lines are necessarily throughout this movie.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
It's it hits the right note, it really does.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I have not met anyone who doesn't love this movie,
so it's hard for I can't think of who it
wouldn't be for like truly.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
As long as you are open minded and accept it
for what it is. It is a fun rise start
to finish, and it is a fun horror movie that's
not meant to be funny, but it is fun.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yes, exactly all right, food drink pairing.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Obviously, this is a great movie to watch in a
party with a party with a group, but I also
think you can watch it by yourself. I have watched
it in group settings with you, just the two of us,
and certainly on my own, and I've enjoyed it each
and every time for different reasons.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Now, what's a parrot with duh? There is?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
We talked about all of the wonderful scenes in this movie.
One of my favorites that we haven't mentioned yet is
her meeting her potential future in laws. What does she
bring the harvest cake? And it plays a role at
the family dinner? And what is a harvest cake? So
some folks who have actually had dragged Me to Hell
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parties have talked about putting together the harvest cake it's
a rustic style cake filled with fruit and nuts.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Rustic cakes, so.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
You can add like an apple cake.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Bas you can add pecans and cranberries, but you can
really make it your own with walnuts and currants, chopped
up dried figs. What can personalize it. But it's an
autumnal cake. It's called a harvest cake. You don't remember
the scene when she brings the cake.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Or the seams.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I'm back on a cultural issue now. I have never
heard of a harvest cake. And the ingredients you described,
I've never had in one cake before you said pecans
and cranberries.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Oh yeah, And it's like an apple cake basically, and
you can put some dried fruits and nuts in it.
It's basically what people would put together with whatever they
had left over from the harvest and put it in
a like an apple based cake.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
What's the Christmas cake? Fruitcake?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Thinking about similar different, I mean, it's a it's a variant,
but it's a it's an apple cake bas as much better.
But yes, she brings it much to the discuss of
her potential future mother.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
I learned so much from you.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
But it's a central part in the movie. So if
you watch the movie and you have the cake. It
would be a fun pairing.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Are the raisins in there as well?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
You can put them in there if you choose. I'm
not a big fan of raisins other than I do
like a carrot cake. You know that's kind of a
version of an autumnal cake.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
A carrot cake.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
It's a Yes, a carrot cake is a similar part
of it.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Okay, this was not supposed to be a big part.
Please continue.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
No, So where do you watch Drag Me to Hell?
Right now? You can find it?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
What you're done with the food picke just the harvest cake?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
What do you drink the harvest cake?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Uh? You could do a mold like you do, like
like a mold wine or an apple cider drink.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yes, keep it with the theme.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
What would you watch with Drag Me to Hell?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
None of that stuff because it was never in my
household growing up. I'm not familiar with mold mold wine. Yes,
it's so good, given from right.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yeah, mold wine is is a German tradition in October
Fest alongside some beer. So you could add some fun
beer to it as well. Okay, you want to move
on to where you can watch it. Yes, okay, we
can watch it on HBO Max or on Peacock, so
two different options for you.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
And of course this is one that I prefer. I
think we should purchase this.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
You know, I.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Highly, highly highly recommend all the ones in our top five.
But I love that we are actually presenting something that's
not so.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
No brainers, right, there's like disagreement on the one that
we love. I like that they called a little debate,
but I like that we are actually picked some that
are really good, not so obvious movies.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Yes, and this one is one of our all time favorites.
We hope you love it as much as we do
our next movie it'll be number three on the list.
We've been watching this in the background and actually watched
it through. It's the shortest movie on our list and
one of the best. And you said this is going
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to be so good. You actually asked me not to
read all of the prep material you did for this one.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I learned so much about this and this one, including
why the performances from these actors are as real and
authentic as they seem to be, and also this movie
out of the top five. This is the only other
one I think Robes that's not number one that I
would make a legitimate argument for being number one. This
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one I could make an argument. Hmm, maybe this should
have been at the top. This is a special movie.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
It really is, all right. And with that, thank you
for listening everyone. I'm Ade Roboch alongside TJ. Holmes. We
will be talking to you soon.
Hey, there're folks. It is Tuesday, October the twenty eight.
We are in our top five on our horror hit list.
Today's movie is number four. It is a classic. It
is scary, it is goofy, it is silly, it is gross,
and it's PG thirteen. Welcome to this episode of Amy
(00:32):
and TJ as we continue our deep cuts giving you
our countdown to some of the best horror movies. Maybe
you've never heard of Roll. This is absolutely one of
our most endearing yes horror movies and it's PG thirteen.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I can't believe it's PG thirteen.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah, And honestly, we've rewatched it, and I am standing
by that statement.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I can't believe it's PG thirteen. I'm shocked by it.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
This thing is scary and it's fun, and those two
things don't always go together because it's never deliberately campy
or ridiculous. It's just good entertainment and it's just scary
enough that you keep going back to it.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
We have been watching this movie for years and years
and years and years and years, and we did not
realize it was PG thirteen until we started putting this together.
So yesterday essentially, and I said it to you, and
you said, what the hell? Because we have you announced.
Very early on we started doing this list. TJ completely
checks out. If you tell him a movie is PG thirteen,
he will not watch a PG thirteen horror movie. And
(01:37):
here we are.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Here, we are two in our top five.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I'm embarrassed, all right.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
So number four is Drag Me to Hell. And I
have to tell you. When this first came out, the
name of it turned me off. I thought this is
going to be stupid. I thought it was going to
be over the top, ridiculous, not anything I'd want to watch.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
This movie is amazing. It just I think it nails
it in.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Terms of course how scary it is, how fun it is,
how entertaining it is, how much I love the main characters,
and of course we love us some justin long long.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
This one came out in May of two thousand and nine.
It's an hour and thirty nine minutes again, this one
PG thirteen, But it is strictly in that horror genre.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
So what is this one about?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Christine Brown has a loving boyfriend and a good job
at an LA bank. Her heavenly life becomes hellish when,
in an effort to impress her boss, she denies an
old woman's request for an extension on her home loan.
In retaliation, the crone places a curse on Christine, threatening
her soul with eternal damnation. Christine seeks a psychic's help
(02:48):
to break the curse, but the price to save her
soul may be more than she can pay. This movie
is so damn good. It changed how I feel in
a park garage. It changed how I feel about even
turning someone down or upsetting someone. And you and I
actually had a moment in our relationship that was a
(03:10):
game changer based on this movie.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
But yeah, yes, I remember. There are some things in
references you can make in your life that are so
subtle that they are only a handful of people anywhere
that would get it. And I, yes made a reference
and you completely. I didn't have to explain anything. And
when you all see this movie, you will understand what
we're talking about. There is an opening scene that will
(03:35):
stay with you that essentially sets up the entire movie.
So that's what we're talking about. This one rolls I
did not realize did this well at the box office
forty two million dollars domestically another forty eight point seven
million Internationally. This thing made ninety one million dollars on
a reportedly thirty million dollar budget. Wow, that's a that's
(03:55):
a hit of a movie.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And in two thousand and nine too.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I don't know how Look, obviously, horror movies have been
around since as long as I can remember, right, But
I do feel like this type of horror movie this
was unique at that time. I think people are now directors, producers,
writers understanding the multifaceted genres that horror can take, including
(04:19):
entertaining and being kind of funny or this. I felt
like it was almost ahead of its time.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, and it was over the top at times to
a way that you still appreciate it and you seem
to be in on the gag as long. Now, of
course we talked about our guy, so I'm gonna go
we have to go back into account of how many
movies justin Long is in in our top thirty.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I had that same thought.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I had no idea that he was in as many
that we love asiot.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
We weren't using that as a factor, But it turns
out it could have been an algorithm.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
But he is once again, and you know what he is.
We anytime we were discussing this. Anytime we see Justin
Long and he's not the boy next door being a
little self deprecating, being the charming guy, it upsets us.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
He is all of that in this one.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
He's like the Knight, the Knight in shining armor who
comes to the rescue and you're just so rooting for
him and them. Alison Lohman, I don't know if you
know her name, but you definitely know her face. She's
the the Angenu. She's the female lead in this and
the girlfriend to Justin Long, the director of Sam Raimi
(05:21):
and Rotten Tomato score?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Is this the biggest disparity I think on our list
in terms of critics versus audience score?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I am shocked by this.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I would have thought that the Rotten Tomato score, what
we're going to read to you would be flipped in
the direction that it is. So. The critics gave this
a ninety two percent on Rotten Tomatoes. That's about as
good as it gets. Audience score sixty two percent. Why
did there there was some group of people get together
(05:52):
to try and bring this score down. I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
How could you what this is such a.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Great audience pleaser That's why I could see how the
critics might not have taken it as seriously, or maybe
took it too seriously.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
So I'm shocked.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
What are your thoughts in reading through it? A lot
of folks, and I find this and I stop including
a lot of negative reviews because so many of them
are seem personal and contrariant, like my only reaction. Sometimes
the thing is to just oppose and to be outraged,
and so it's not even a good criticism. It just
I don't know why people are so crazy about this movie.
(06:27):
You almost be crazy. You got caught like just attacking
people for liking it. You know, that's not that's not
a criategic criticism. But the critics, at least their consensus
on this one is Sam Raimi. Now, the director, Sam
Raimi actually mentioned he has some big credits to his name,
Evil Dead, a couple of Evil Dead movies. He did
a couple of Spider Man movies. This is a big
time director that knows what he's doing. But the critic consensus.
(06:48):
Sam Raimi returns to top form with Drag Me to Hell,
a frightening, hilarious, delightfully can't be throwright.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
That's a good way to put it.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I agree with that, and we have some critic reviews,
and again ninety two percent did really really well. Drag
Me to Hell is sometimes funny and often startling horror movie.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
That is what it wants to be, and that is
what it is.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
It does.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
It throws you off, like you're yelling at the screen
what they have to do that. There's a couple of
those in This.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Movie stands as the latest in a line of occasional,
much needed reminders that the horror genre isn't going completely
downhill anytime soon.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
That's a good way to put it.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yep, the next one here a gooey, frenetic, raucous and
mind meltingly clever delight. That's a that's okay, very descriptive,
but that's kind of right. It is frenetic. This fabulously
compacked little morality tale is the most fun you'll ever have.
Analyzing our economic collapse, yeah, that comes into it as well,
(07:50):
But the morality part of it, you do ask yourselves
some questions. Good people getting caught up and sometimes in
their own world and their own ambitions, and you leave
some of your morals at the door. And it does
have some of those questions.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I do agree, you do ask yourself what would I
have done? She's trying in the storyline, she's trying to
get a big raise at her bank, and so she's
basically incentivized, or she assumes she's being incentivized to turn
down risky loans basically.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So, Yes, there is a.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Big moral dilemma in the central part of this story.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
She goes against what she knows to be the right
thing for the sake of career. Yes, and hey, who
hasn't had some question or something like it?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Does? It's a core moral question.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
It's almost as if she unknowingly made a deal with
the devil. Yes, Drag me to Hell is the most
fun you'll have being scared for a long time.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Agreed, That is a really good way to put it.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
The next one is good.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Not only is it genuinely scary, it's also outrageously funny,
and for once, it's intentional.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Put it this negative one here, this next one. I
just threw this in here for you because I knew
you'd like it. It's background mythology is both totally ridiculous
and almost impossible to understand.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, obviously demonology isn't some serious scientific cause like we
get it.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Like, yeah, an old woman who wants a loan puts
a curse on the young loan officer, and you want
an understanding of the background mythology.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Okay, that's someone who doesn't watch enough horror movies.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Hey, you do your thing. Some of the audience reviews
we'll get into here. A lighthearted take on horror that
hits the features of the genre and has a few
camp moments that make it an homage to horror films.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
That's so true.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Great half half horror, thriller, dark comedy, must watch. Just
keep your keep an open mind. Basically, yes, a.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Nothing one said, it's so messed up and I absolutely
love it. Another one here, extremely comedic and extremely scary
at the same time. But then this last one here,
you could take this negative one. I just want to
throw in there again. I can't make a lot of
sense out of the negative one.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Silly, completely unhinged, disgusting, bad special effects.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
In short, a lot of fun if you're in the
right mood.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
What I mean, all of those for us, silly check,
completely unhinged, check disgusting, check bad special effeense. Those are
all in the pro column for us.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yes, right. They did it on purpose. It is so deliberate, but.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
It is a lot of fun if you're in and
it's hard to not be in the right mood.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Honestly, I would say you could watch this.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Movie going into any mood you're in, and you will
come out in a better mood.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
That is a very good This is a if there
ever is one. This is a mood boosting horror film.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
There is a reason why I cannot count how many times, personally, individually,
on my own I have turned this movie on and
it immediately puts you in a lighthearted mood. You laugh
and are scared at the same time, and genuinely scary
like genuinely scary like.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
But you know what we have to say, and we'll
get into this a little more. But we have to say.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Scary without being violent and gory, hence the PG thirteen.
So exactly who is this movie made for, who is
it not for? And why it made our list. We'll
get into all that when we come back. And I
know the moment you all are anticipating most Robock puts
all of a heart and soul into coming up with
(11:28):
a food and drink pairing for all of our movies.
What goes with a movie called Drag Me the Hell?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Stay here, welcome back, as we talk about number four
on our Halloween Horror hit list, drag Me to Hell.
But it is a fun ride on your way down.
We love this movie why it made our list. It's
(11:58):
just an unforgettably good time that we revisit and have
continued to over the years. It's never a bad time
to put this movie on. The opening scene, basically where
everything goes wrong for this young woman in the movie,
is just so damn good. Again, the parking garage scene
(12:23):
is one of my favorite scenes ever in a horror movie.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Okay, the bank scene, at the open, there's a funeral scene.
There's a lot of stuff. There's a lot of stuff
to this movie, and you're right, roes it. This is
a even the parts that are uncomfortable or meant to
be scary, you still find yourself almost laughing at the joke.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
But oh, come on.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
You've gotta smile on your face while you're horrified.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
It's a lot of that stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And the woman, there's an older lady that plays central
to this even in death. She's funny. She plays such
a central role in getting you to react.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Even is it missus Goodush? Is that her name? I
believe missus Goodness.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
It's her. Everything about her is just perfect.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
So again another reason it's on our list, even though
we didn't think about it, it does when we see
justin Long, we are put at ease about whether or
not this is going to be a good film. We
know we're in good hounds, but also we know at
this point he doesn't do a lot of bullshit now
like he does quality. You can argue about jeepers, creepers
or whatever else. It's not Oscar worthy stuff, but these
(13:28):
are quality horror movies and some even are cult classics.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Correct. All right, So who's this for?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Anyone who is looking for fun, anyone who's looking to
have a good, entertaining and scary movie. I really think
this is the movie that has it all. There's something
in it for everyone.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I agree, and this is a can we recommend this
one for Kisses pg. Thirteen But I wouldn't be worried.
You know, it has a lot of the almost Nickelodeon
type grossness.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I would also make sense.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yes, yes, there is that one hundred percent, but there's
also the only thing I would caution about younger kids
is that there is there is some scary enough imagery
that it would stay with you, like in terms of
a nightmare, like seeing some of what you see in
that movie is a little scary. But you know, I
mean my kids are watching horror movies starting at eight,
(14:20):
so they were fine with this, but I would.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Just there it is scary, like it's scared me.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
And there's a witchcraft element that could creep some folks,
some adults.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Out, yes, so and who it's not for if if
you want some traditional horror movie, if you don't want
to if you just want to be scared, uncomfortable and
uneasy and you don't want to laugh, which seems weird
to me because I love doing both.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
It's nice when you can do both.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
But if you're looking for a traditional horror movie, this
might not be for you.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Go ah, have right.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I don't think this one's classified as a horror comedy.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I think it's just a horror.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, but it does have camping moment, but it's not
meant to be a goofy, throat away silly even throw
away cliche lines are necessarily throughout this movie.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
It's it hits the right note, it really does.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I have not met anyone who doesn't love this movie,
so it's hard for I can't think of who it
wouldn't be for like truly.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
As long as you are open minded and accept it
for what it is. It is a fun rise start
to finish, and it is a fun horror movie that's
not meant to be funny, but it is fun.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yes, exactly all right, food drink pairing.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Obviously, this is a great movie to watch in a
party with a party with a group, but I also
think you can watch it by yourself. I have watched
it in group settings with you, just the two of us,
and certainly on my own, and I've enjoyed it each
and every time for different reasons.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Now, what's a parrot with duh? There is?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
We talked about all of the wonderful scenes in this movie.
One of my favorites that we haven't mentioned yet is
her meeting her potential future in laws. What does she
bring the harvest cake? And it plays a role at
the family dinner? And what is a harvest cake? So
some folks who have actually had dragged Me to Hell
(16:13):
parties have talked about putting together the harvest cake it's
a rustic style cake filled with fruit and nuts.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Rustic cakes, so.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
You can add like an apple cake.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Bas you can add pecans and cranberries, but you can
really make it your own with walnuts and currants, chopped
up dried figs. What can personalize it. But it's an
autumnal cake. It's called a harvest cake. You don't remember
the scene when she brings the cake.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Or the seams.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I'm back on a cultural issue now. I have never
heard of a harvest cake. And the ingredients you described,
I've never had in one cake before you said pecans
and cranberries.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Oh yeah, And it's like an apple cake basically, and
you can put some dried fruits and nuts in it.
It's basically what people would put together with whatever they
had left over from the harvest and put it in
a like an apple based cake.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
What's the Christmas cake? Fruitcake?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Thinking about similar different, I mean, it's a it's a variant,
but it's a it's an apple cake bas as much better.
But yes, she brings it much to the discuss of
her potential future mother.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
I learned so much from you.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
But it's a central part in the movie. So if
you watch the movie and you have the cake. It
would be a fun pairing.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Are the raisins in there as well?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
You can put them in there if you choose. I'm
not a big fan of raisins other than I do
like a carrot cake. You know that's kind of a
version of an autumnal cake.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
A carrot cake.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
It's a Yes, a carrot cake is a similar part
of it.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Okay, this was not supposed to be a big part.
Please continue.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
No, So where do you watch Drag Me to Hell?
Right now? You can find it?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
What you're done with the food picke just the harvest cake?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
What do you drink the harvest cake?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Uh? You could do a mold like you do, like
like a mold wine or an apple cider drink.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yes, keep it with the theme.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
What would you watch with Drag Me to Hell?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
None of that stuff because it was never in my
household growing up. I'm not familiar with mold mold wine. Yes,
it's so good, given from right.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yeah, mold wine is is a German tradition in October
Fest alongside some beer. So you could add some fun
beer to it as well. Okay, you want to move
on to where you can watch it. Yes, okay, we
can watch it on HBO Max or on Peacock, so
two different options for you.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
And of course this is one that I prefer. I
think we should purchase this.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
You know, I.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Highly, highly highly recommend all the ones in our top five.
But I love that we are actually presenting something that's
not so.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
No brainers, right, there's like disagreement on the one that
we love. I like that they called a little debate,
but I like that we are actually picked some that
are really good, not so obvious movies.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Yes, and this one is one of our all time favorites.
We hope you love it as much as we do
our next movie it'll be number three on the list.
We've been watching this in the background and actually watched
it through. It's the shortest movie on our list and
one of the best. And you said this is going
(19:10):
to be so good. You actually asked me not to
read all of the prep material you did for this one.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I learned so much about this and this one, including
why the performances from these actors are as real and
authentic as they seem to be, and also this movie
out of the top five. This is the only other
one I think Robes that's not number one that I
would make a legitimate argument for being number one. This
(19:37):
one I could make an argument. Hmm, maybe this should
have been at the top. This is a special movie.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
It really is, all right. And with that, thank you
for listening everyone. I'm Ade Roboch alongside TJ. Holmes. We
will be talking to you soon.
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