The plot to Sam Raimi's return to horror, Drag Me to Hell, may seem tailor-made for our current economic crisis -- a loan officer angers a demon by rejecting an elderly woman's request for an extension on her mortgage -- but Raimi actually wrote the script for the film years ago with his brother, Ivan Raimi. In a recent interview, Raimi said:
It's just a coincidence. It wasn't written to reflect anything about our society or to paint banks as villains.
While debuting the film at Cannes, Raimi summed up the film's core concept:
It's a simple morality tale about how greed leads to destruction.
Drag Me to Hell stars Alison Lohman as loan officer Christine Brown; Justin Long as Projessor Dalton, Christine's boyfriend; and Lorna Raver as Mrs. Ganush, an elderly gypsy in league with the devil.