A commentary track from Raimi is missing-and there won't be a definitive release until one is recorded. The additional extras are decent, but certainly not exhaustive by any means. Her body needs food but she is unwilling to give in.While I won't attempt to be too technical here (as I would come off as ignorant on the topic as I am), I will say that this BD brought a nice crisp transfer, along with booming loud sound. The sequence where she dreams that a fly enters her mouth and flies into her stomach is actually just her stomach growling while shes asleep. When she locks the spirit outside of her room, see sees the spirit in the form of a shadow of Pig hooves.ĪMS-4 says that her either purging or not eating is causes a nosebleed that "her sick mind sees as huge, as she attributes it to the curse, when deep inside she's ashamed and afraid they'll find out about her eating disorder." At night she dreams like she's being vomited onto, when it's really her who's throwing up in her bathroom. Every time the spirit appears at her house, she is in the kitchen.
Notice that when food is introduced on screen, Christine gets attacked by the spirit. The food is a key factor in most of the hallucinations. Also, the later exorcism wasn't real (hence why the boyfriend wasn't allowed to join in). The woman from the bank never followed her, she imagined everything.įrightened, Christine seeks a Psychic, whose explanation of "the old woman's curse" manifests into her hallucinations. Early in the film she passes out in her car and drives into a bunch of other cars in the parking lot. Hunger is making her irritable, she imagines the old woman's creepy hand tapping on the desk when it was really just the other banker. According to the theory, there really isn't a scary demon from hell, she's just imagining everything. She never touches food, because she is afraid it will make her fat and disgusting. She has a good boyfriend, and is trying to move her way up with a career at the bank. At the beginning of the movie, she is listening to a tape trying to correct her southern accent. She doesn't want to become addicted to food.
Warning: Spoilers follow.Īllison Lohman's character Christine Brown admits that her mother had an addiction, and at one point in the film we see an overweight photo of Christine as a child in front of a sign that read "SWINE QUEEN".
Apparently you can watch the entire movie from this viewpoint, with few exceptions, and it all makes sens. Micobiella thinks that Sam Raimi's Drag Me To Hell isn't actually a horror movie, but instead a story of a farm girl with an eating disorder, who starves herself to fit a certain image and begins hallucinating and going crazy.
Film reader Steve M sent over an interesting theory he read over on IMDB. Before you read this theory, take a deep breath - no one is saying that Raimi intended this interpretation - it's meant to be fun. Either way, I always find them interesting and entertaining. Sometimes the theories are intended creations of the writer/director behind a film, but most times they are just fun interpretations created by the viewer (like this one). Readers of /Film know that I'm a fan of wacky movie theories that make you reevaluate a film in much different light.