New to Theatres This Weekend: Drag Me To Hell, Up, Pontypool

Posted by Sean on May 29th, 2009   Filed under: New Releases

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Two major new releases duke it out at the box office this weekend, although I think there is only one clear winner: Sam Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell doesn’t have a shot in hell of beating Pixar’s Up. Also in select theatres is the Japanese film Departures, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film earlier this year, Bruce McDonald’s Pontypool (playing in just one theatre), and a crime comedy called The Lonely Maiden. This is the first I’m hearing about it, but it stars Christopher Walken, Morgan Freeman, Marcia Gay Harden and William H. Macy. What are you most excited about? How much money do you think Up will make?

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Comments (8)

  1. Does anyone know if Pontypool will be showing in the Detroit area?

    Posted by paulm on May 29th, 2009

  2. I’m pretty sure it’s only playing at the IFC Center in NYC.

    Posted by Sean on May 29th, 2009

  3. I saw Drag me to Hell and I have to believe this movie will find it’s audience, maybe not to the extent of Up but what an entertaining piece of cinema. The crowd I was seeing it with were laughing and jumping out of there seats.

    I got to hope it does well because I want more of this Raimi rather than the spiderman hack. I know people love those movies and to be fair they could not ask for a better man at the helm,it’s just not my cup of tea.

    Drag Me To Hell is like a Tales From The Crypt movie but good. His stylistics and tone suits EC rather than DC in my opinion.

    Posted by Lee on May 29th, 2009

  4. I would love to live in a world where a Sam Raimi horror flick beats out a Pixar movie at the box office.

    Posted by Wintle on May 29th, 2009

  5. Saw Drag Me To Hell this afternoon and it was awesome. There wasn’t much of a crowd but it’s definitely masterful at keeping you entertained from start to finish. Even the typical jump scares were handled creatively. I wish more horror movies were this creative and I wish Raimi were this inspired when he was making those Spider-Man schlockbusters.

    Posted by Nuno on May 29th, 2009

  6. Pontypool is available On Demand for Comacast cable subscribers. It’s under the IFC in Theaters header. I watched it this afternoon and there is good reason it’s only playing in very few theaters. Proceed with caution.

    Posted by ToeFu on May 30th, 2009

  7. Drag Me To Hell was a lot of fun. It’s not like some j-horror film like you guys were saying based on the trailer.

    Like what many of the best horror films do to me, the film made me think. I saw that there was some social commentary on obesity, fattening foods or whatever term you’d like to call it. Well at least that is how I observed it.

    Posted by Pr1mal on May 31st, 2009

  8. Hey, I actually liked the ‘personal responsibility’ message in Drag Me To Hell. Double resonant after the 2009 banking/housing/automaker collapse.

    Posted by Kurt on May 31st, 2009

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