How bad is the mortgage crisis?
They’re making horror movies about it. Yes. That’s right.
“Drag Me To Hell” is a new monster-movie-haunted-house-slasher picture directed by Sam Raimi (the guy who reinvented “Spider Man”).
This time around, the victim is a young woman who also happens to be a loan officer.
In the old days, you knew a woman was in trouble in these movies if she had sex: Sex=death in the parlance of gore-fests.
This woman’s big mistake? She refuses to grant a mortgage extension to the wrong customer and draws the evil eye.
“Soon it will be you who comes begging to me!” cackles the witch who exacts a supernatural revenge over her foreclosure.
Horror movies have always been one peculiar lens on the American zeitgeist, from the conformity pods of Invasion of the Body Snatchers to the mall-zombies of the Night of the Living Dead series.
In this flick, the dastardly witch cries out, “Where will I live? Never have I begged for anything!”
Then she dooms the loan officer to hell for eternity. Maybe she’ll take out Bernie Madoff next?