Now this is some cheerful news. After making three Spider-Man blockbusters, director Sam Raimi will return to his low-budget roots with Drag Me to Hell, a supernatural thriller he scripted with his brother, Ivan. The film is a "morality tale about the unwitting recipient of a supernatural curse" that, according to Variety, the two Raimis wrote after completing Army of Darkness.
Drag Me to Hell will be the first fright flick that Raimi's directed since that 1993 movie; it's also the first that he'll direct for his Ghost House production company, which made both Grudge films and 30 Days of Night.
"Sam calls it a 'spook-a-blast,' a wild ride with all the chills and spills that Evil Dead delivered, without relying on the excessive violence," Raimi's longtime producer Robert Tapert tells Variety. While a lack of gore may strike some as a major disappointment (Raimi did it so well, after all), it's nothing that some crazed camera work and editing can't remedy.
