Drag Me to Hell

After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is skeptical. Her only hope seems to lie in a psychic who claims he can help her lift the curse and keep her soul from being dragged straight to hell.

Critics embraced Sam Raimi's return to horror as a gleefully unhinged blend of scares and slapstick, with the majority treating the film's campy excess as a feature rather than a flaw. The sharpest debate was over genre identity — whether it's a horror film, a comedy, or something so fused it defies either label — and a minority felt the plot's credibility and Alison Lohman's performance undermined the fun. Notably, critics loved it more than general audiences did.