Fans of cult director Sam Raimi, who shot the horror trilogy The Evil Dead and filmed Spider-Man, in 2009 were delighted with a new film with a chilling title called "Take Me to Hell." Actors and roles were very carefully selected by the American screenwriter and producer, who spent $ 30 million on the film.
Spectators around the world appreciated the thriller, which earned three times more investment at the box office. The plot of the picture resembles Stephen King's book “Losing Weight” with gypsy curses, only in the horror the main role went to a cute office blonde.
Why is this mystical and sometimes ridiculous story so attracted to the mass audience so full of horror movies? Let's try to figure it out!
Plot of the film
The plot of the picture “Take Me to Hell”, the actors of which pleased the audience with an interesting game, tells about the loan manager Christine Brown, who refuses to extend payments to the old gypsy woman Ganush. Dreaming of taking a higher position, the gray office mouse does not listen to the prayers of a real witch, and she curses her in revenge.
From this moment, the measured life of a bank employee changes dramatically. Christine is literally haunted by failure. Problems with the groom and his parents, frightening voices and a house filled with frightening squeaks lead to the fact that she runs to a psychic, confirming her guesses about the impaired damage.
The girl finds the house of a gypsy who came to her and finds out about the unexpected death of a witch. Silent Christine enters into a real battle with a demon trying to take her life, desperately resisting him. The ending of the picture causes real horror among the spectators who believed that the outcome of the deadly battle would be in favor of the blonde.
Great game of the main actress
The actors of the film “Take Me to Hell” coped brilliantly with their roles. Especially noted are the works of Alison Loman, playing Christine, and Lorna Rever, a gypsy witch.
From a modest and quiet bank clerk who is not trying to fight her weaving colleagues, the girl turns into a real fighter for her life. She even goes to the cemetery to open the old woman’s grave and return the curse to her.
Loman plays a heroine who is resisting circumstances and struggling with her fears, who at the same time has to make a worthy impression on the parents of her chosen one, so as not to get into an awkward situation.
Scary and funny
The director, who recouped the costs of the film, was not in vain invited to his project already held artists whose excellent play and expensive special effects became the main components of success. Raimi, whose corporate style of work is an undisguised banter over the cliches of horror films, believed that the actors selected by him should fit into the type.
“Take me to Hell” is at the same time a terrible and funny film that helped reveal her talent to the American actress. E. Loman conveys the character of a very practical office worker who does not have the stupid blonde stupidity.
Ominous old woman
But many critics believe that after all, the seventy-year-old Lorna Rever, made up beyond recognition, has become the main star of the mystical horror film "Take me to Hell." Actors playing the roles of disgusting villainous heroes rarely get flattering reviews, but the actress’s performance was well-deserved, and Christine’s intimidation scenes rightfully entered the treasury of the most horrific horror episodes.
The image of the ominous old woman with a raid of the otherworldly was very successful for Lorna, and all the episodes connected with her are watched in one breath.
A male role losing to a female
However, not all actors ("Take Me to Hell") are organic in the tape. The bridegroom of the main character, performed by Justin Long, who starred in various television and film projects, including the horror film Jeepers Creepers, looks sluggish against the backdrop of Loman and Rever, and critics declared the character's character to be undeveloped and recognized the acting as unemotional.
But the director did not seek to develop a love line in his film, focusing on other things.
Funny moments on set
With the skillful leadership of Raimi, who shot a horror film and a black comedy at the same time, the actors of “Take Me to Hell” followed his clear instructions - to get used to the role and play as seriously as possible.
Although some moments on the set extremely entertained the whole crew. For example, there was a memorable episode with a talking goat, when the animal brought to the site only interfered with the process, and the director decided to replace it with a mechanized doll.
Scary horror story
Among the horror films of the same type that regularly appear on screens, the mystical film is, according to many, a breath of fresh air. And the key to the huge success of the picture, along with black humor and visual effects, were the actors selected by the director. “Take me to Hell” is a fascinating horror story, the ending of which will hit the spectators on the spot, convinced that at last all the bad things are left behind, because people love to be scared from the big screen.