Drag me to hell (2009) tells the story of a woman who in effort to try and gain a higher work title humiliates a woman trying to seek help from her company, when this occurs the woman casts a curse on the young woman, setting a demon on to her and to drag her to hell for eternity.
The trailer opens to an establishing shot of a a trafficked motorway, with a blonde haired young woman in her car looking miserable, we then cut to her in presumably her work place, where she approaches her boss in order to ask him about a new job title, when he seems to be less convinced he diegetically talks about the need to make "tough decisions". The office she is in appears very plain and with dull colours, making the woman's life appear very boring and dull, making the audience sense that she needs the promotion in order to gain more happiness, showing the audience it is very important to her.
We then cut to a creepy looking older woman, with one colour eye different to the other, seemingly poor, as she pleads with the before mentioned young woman to get an extension on a loan so that she can stay in her house, the young lady's boss tells her that it is a "tough decision", hinting to her not to give the old woman an extension, making the woman realise in order to achieve her wanted managers position she must decline the woman's request.Making the audience sympathise with both Christine and the older woman, as Christine before hand seemed to be willing to help the older woman, but now she is making an out of character move.
After the woman begs and pleads with her, the young woman (Christine) calls security and starts to humiliate the woman by screaming and further denying her pleads. We then cut to a darkly set car park where Christine sits in her car building the tension, when suddenly the old woman smashing her side window and drags her out of her car and is seen breathing heavily on one of Christine's possessions, Then in a close up shot tells Christine "soon it will be you who comes begging to me ".
We then cut to a medium shot of Christine in a darkly lit room with a man holding her hand, As they are surrounded by books and ornaments that would represent a voodoo/psychic conventions, with the rooms mise en scene showing a crystal ball in the background, showing further tones of paranormal themes. The bearded gentleman then states that someone has place a curse on Christine and that the worst demon of all is coming after her, showing the audience that she was in fact cursed by the older woman in the car park, We cut to further creepy shots of gates creaking and slamming as the wind blows dead leaves around wildly, building up the tension of an attack against Christine. With images of a demon's shadow appearing around her house.
As she is lying in bed we can still hear the man non diegetically speak, the soundtrack continues to gain speed and pitch further increases, With the man stating that the demon will "Drag you to hell", as he says this all music stops as we see Christine choke on a fly as she slept, making her appear vulnerable and an easy target. We cut back to a side angle close up of Christine as she goes to lie down, when we suddenly see a demon like woman lying in place of her boyfriend screaming in Christine's face.
Then we hear a sign of hope for Christine when the psychic man who helped her previously state that she can give the curse away, As we see a high angle long shot of four people including Christine her boyfriend and the previously mentioned psychic man. Creating a seance like setting,We then see multiple faced paced clips of Christine struggling and fighting to get away from demon like figures around her, Finally concluding on fire like hands dragging Christina down, making the audience wonder if she lived and whether she indeed beat the curse or got dragged to hell.
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