But they decided it required a larger budget than they were dealing with at the time. In 2002 they planned to give it to another director and produce it through Raimi and Rob Tapert’s new company Ghost House Pictures. Previously titled THE CURSED or THE LAMIA, Sam and Ivan Raimi had originally written it as a short story in 1989, then considered adapting it into a movie after ARMY OF DARKNESS. While Raimi was preparing what he thought would be SPIDER-MAN 4, he decided to do a smaller film first. ![]() So it’s a tried and true, oldest horror story in the book, basically.” -Sam Raimi, describing DRAG ME TO HELL (but also A SIMPLE PLAN) It’s a morality tale that many churches have told, throughout the ages. “What we really have at the core here is a timeless story concept that was used in this film, along with many others: the idea of a character that commits a sin of greed and has to pay the terrible price for it.
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