Oz the Great and Powerful

Oz the Great and Powerful (Sam Riami, 2013)

Far from his first inspired films, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Dark Man, The Quick and the Dead, and even Army of Darkness, Sam Raimi’s adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s Oz the Great and Powerful visually surpasses any other release in High Defintion with its satured bright colors and fantastic imagery. Telling how the magician got into the world of Oz that will eventually be visited by Dorothy.

Top Films of Sam Raimi by LMdC

1. The Evil Dead (1982)
2. Evil Dead II (1987)
3. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
4. Spider-Man (2002)
5. Darkman (1990)
6. Drag Me To Hell (2009)
7. Army of Darkness (1992)
8. The Quick and the Dead (1995)
9. Spider-Man 3 (2007)
I still need to see: Crimewave (1985) A Simple Plan (1998) For the Love of the Game (1999) The Gift (2000) Oz: The Great and Powerful (2013)

Drag Me to Hell un film de Sam Raimi

Sam Raimi has made cult horror films for my generation of film buffs with The Evil Dead trilogy, landmark comic book adaptations Darkman, Spider-Man I-II-III (I wish I could erase this last one from my memory). He has done an excellent western "à la Leone" The Quick and the Dead and after maybe his only disaster, Spider-Man 3 (yes I say it again), he goes back to his beginning genre; Horror.

Drag Me to Hell is the story of Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) who works at a bank and attempts to earn an advancement for her career but also to impress the parents of her 1 year boyfriend, Clay (Justin Long). One day an old woman ask for a loan and to impress her boss Brown refuses to the woman who turns out to be a gypsie... The crazy gypsie curse Christine and now begind the madness of Drag me to Hell. I'm not a big fan of horror films and I don't like to be surprised by jumping creatures in calm moments but Drag Me to Hell is a very efficient movie. The directing is top notch and the horror parts are very creepy and mad. There's not much of blood or gore effects but some disgusting parts make this one a PG-13.

Even if horror isn't my cup of tea I think Drag me to Hell is a very good film and Sam Raimi sure is still one of the best filmmaker of horror films! He doesn't loose his touch at all, I think he even got better even if The Evil Dead had this juvenile urge to create and churn out something new and uncommon...

8.2/10

A Film Review by Michaël Parent