After seventeen years away from horror films—and a decade spent on $200 million Spider-Man movies—the director of the cult gore-fest The Evil Dead returns to the genre with Drag Me to Hell. Alison Lohman stars as Christine, a loan officer whose refusal to grant an elderly woman a mortgage extension makes her (naturally) the target of a hell-dwelling demon. See Vulture's Q&A with Raimi here.

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