Drag Me To Hell

[Pictured left to right: Ivan Raimi, Sam Raimi Rob Tapert]

The Raimi brothers are back together as a writing/directing team and are re-exploring the genre that put them both on the movie-making map.

Ivan and Sam Raimi have co-written a horror/thriller script called “Drag Me To Hell,” about the life of a person who has been given a horrifying supernatural curse.

The Raimi brothers and Rob Tapert production company, Ghost House will finance the project along with Mandate Pictures.

Sam Raimi, after years away from the genre he cut his teeth on, decided after scores of mega budget, big box office fare like “Spider Man,” that it was time to make a journey back to horror so he and Ivan, not depending on others for the idea, sat down and put their heads together on a plot they believe will grab the audience and drag them into hell kicking and screaming.

Tapert said the Raimis penned the first script well before the formation of Ghost House, according to Variety. It was originally written under the title “The Curse” and completed right after the siblings collaborated on 1992’s “Army of Darkness,” which Sam Raimi directed, stated the trade paper. Ivan and Sam revisited the script and put a little more of their Raimi-style finishing touches to it after all these years.

“Sam calls it a ‘spook-a-blast,’ a wild ride with all the chills and spills that ‘Evil Dead’ delivered, without relying on the excessive violence of that film,” Tapert said. “When one has done three very expensive movies, they get used to eating caviar. Sam will have to ponder what it means to come down from the mountaintop for a moment.” The appeal to Sam on ‘Drag Me to Hell’ was returning to what he had once done and loved doing, which was entertaining a very specific group of fans and providing a roller coaster ride for them,” Tapert said. “He doesn’t have the enormous pressure here that goes with handling a hundreds of millions of dollars franchise.”

Once “Drag Me to Hell” is completed it looks like Raimi may still be New Line’s director of choice for the next LOTR film titled “The Hobbit,” in which Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh have signed on to produce and show-run.