It's Up versus Drag Me to Hell this weekend -- and with it, a fundamental question. Are ya happy you bought a house?
The (above-linked) trailer for Drag Me to Hell -- about a loan officer denying a mortage extension to an old hag, and facing the wrath of the underworld for it -- kinda looks like a tepid installment of Are You Afraid of the Dark? But amazingly, the horror-thriller is currently tied with critical darling Star Trek for a 95 percent positive review rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Yes, really. Newsday calls it a "near-brilliant" comedy, and Rolling Stone's Peter Travers calls it "horror-movie heaven." I can't say I giggled at the clip above, but in the full-length version, it's apparently in the campy tradition of humor-horror hybrids like 2004's Shaun of the Dead. Which sounds fun. And it's at least competently helmed, with Spiderman trilogy Sam Raimi guiding the way.
What do you think? Is the collapse of the housing market funny yet, or is your internal monologue shrieking, "Too soon!"?
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