The film went into production under the name The Curse. The original story for Drag Me to Hell was written ten years before the film went into production and was written by Sam Raimi and his brother Ivan Raimi. The film includes cameo appearances by Raimi himself as an uncredited ghost at the séance, Raimi's younger brother Ted as a doctor, members of Raimi's family Emma, Henry, and Lorne in minor roles, frequent Raimi collaborator Scott Spiegel as a mourner at the death feast, and John Paxton and Irene Roseen as the old couple at the diner. Mikey Madison as Shaun San Dena's assistant.Alex Veadov as the man with ponytail at the wake.Justin Long as Professor Clayton "Clay" Dalton.Now holding the cursed button, a shaken Clay stares at the empty tracks, with no trace of Christine. Clay tries to rescue Christine, but a train speeds through and he can only watch as the hands drag her to Hell. Horrified, Christine backs away and falls onto the tracks, just as fiery, demonic hands emerge. She realizes she accidentally gave the wrong envelope to Ganush, which means the curse was never lifted. At the station, Clay, hoping to propose to Christine, hands her the envelope with her missing button he found in his car, unaware of its significance. She is even more cheerful when her boss notifies her of the promotion after Stu confessed to stealing her file and was fired. Following Jas's suggestion that she give the button to a dead person, she digs up Ganush's grave and gives the corpse the envelope just at dawn.Ĭhristine returns home and prepares to meet Clay at Los Angeles Union Station for a weekend trip. Christine considers giving the envelope to Stu, but reconsiders. Jas seals the button in an envelope and tells Christine she can only remove the curse by giving the button to someone else. San Dena manages to successfully banish the Lamia from the séance, but dies afterwards. Things go awry when the Lamia possesses her and then her assistant, who vomits up the corpse of Christine's cat, saying it wants her soul. He introduces her to San Dena, who prepares a séance to trap Lamia in a goat and kill it. Christine reluctantly sacrifices her pet kitten before meeting Clay's parents at their house for dinner, where grotesque hallucinations torment her again.Ĭhristine returns to Jas, who requests a fee of $10,000. Christine returns to Jas, who explains that as long as she owns the cursed button, a powerful demon known as Lamia will torment her for three days before dragging her to Hell. Amid the chaos, Stu steals a file from Christine's desk.Ĭhristine goes to beg Ganush for forgiveness but discovers she has recently died. At work, she hallucinates about Ganush and bleeds profusely from her nose while vomiting blood on her boss. At home, the entity begins to attack Christine. Later, Christine and her boyfriend Clay Dalton ( Justin Long) visit fortune teller Rham Jas, who tells Christine a dark spirit is haunting her. After a long struggle, Ganush rips a button from Christine's coat and curses it. In the garage, Ganush ambushes and violently attacks Christine. Security guards arrive and she leaves, angrily accusing Christine of shaming her. After Christine denies her request, Ganush cries and begs not to have her house repossessed. Sylvia Ganush ( Lorna Raver), an elderly and disheveled European Roma woman, asks for a third extension on her mortgage. Her boss advises her to demonstrate tough decision-making. In present-day Los Angeles, bank loan officer Christine Brown ( Alison Lohman) vies for a promotion with conniving Stu Rubin ( Reggie Lee). San Dena vows to fight the demon again one day. San Dena prepares a séance, but an unseen force attacks them and drags the boy to Hell. In 1969 Pasadena, a Hispanic couple seek help from young medium Shaun San Dena ( Adriana Barraza), saying their son is ill and hears evil voices after stealing a silver necklace from a Gypsy wagon, despite trying to return it.
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