In honor of Gay Pride Weekend, I suggest that everyone watch "Drag Me to Hell" with a stereotypically catty gay couple who don't know what kind of movie they should be expecting. While I liked Sam Raimi's latest, I can't help but credit a bit of the fun of the film to the two guys in my row who kept remarking, "Oh, this is terrible" or "Oh no!" or "Look, he's just sitting there like 'Hey, I'm Bruno.'" (All actual quotes) At the end of the film, most of the audience applauded which elicited an almost offended, "Why are you clapping?!"

The reason the people were clapping is because the film was a blast. It's schlocky and silly with some cheap shocks/scares but it was a lot of fun. It has possibly the second best scene of the year (next to Taken's "It's a flesh wound!") which features the best use of a certain cute kitty poster. The film isn't perfect and there were a few moments that dragged and the standard, "Wait, why didn't they..." but the shlock moments and dead-pan delivery of Dileep Rao are priceless. Well, maybe not priceless but they are, at the very least, worth the 14.50 ticket price at Arciight. 

On a related note, Alison Loman turns 30 this year and I swear that she could still play 13.