I’ve been saying it for years, but perhaps it should be repeated one more time: The funniest person in Hollywood might just be Justin Long.

For exhibit A, check out the attached clip of a chat I had with Long about “Drag Me to Hell,” the awesome Sam Raimi thriller that hits DVD this week. During our conversation, he brought up a rude, crude, new game that might soon sweep the nation.

“I’ve been playing this movie game, it’s called Poovie,” the Mac pitchman and movie star said with a grin. “I’ll introduce it to you.” Read more...

Director Sam Raimi made a name for himself (and boyhood friend Bruce Campbell) with a series of low-budget horror films that began in 1978 with "Within the Woods," a short college project that would chart the rest of his career. While that particular movie remains little seen, it led directly to the cult classic "Evil Dead" and its two sequels, "Evil Dead II" and "Army of Darkness," and forever cemented Sam Raimi as a bonafide member of the horror club.

So it was with some regret among his fans that -- as his career progressed -- Raimi drifted into other areas of cinema, most notably the billion dollar blockbuster "Spider-Man" franchise, and seemingly left his chainsaw and boomstick behind. That was until 2009, when he came roaring out of the gate with "Drag Me to Hell," the veteran filmmaker's return to the genre that made him a legend. The film stars Alison Lohman as a young bank officer who is hexed at the decrepit hands of a vengeful gypsie. Like most of Raimi's works, it's mixed with his personal flair and imbued with a sense of humor, while remaining throughout a very scary movie. "Drag Me To Hell" arrives on Blu-ray and DVD with only one true special feature -- that the "Production Video Diaries," a half-hour look at the making of the film. It's unfortunate that Raimi couldn't be persuaded to record a commentary, as it's always a treat getting inside his head. Read more...

Sam Raimi likes to be in control. And if he wants to make a film he can truly stand behind, he simply needs to be in control. "The best way for me to move forward on films," the director once said, "is that I've got to be the singular voice that makes the creative choices on the film."

That wasn't the case in "Spider-Man 3," and the result was a movie that made almost $900 million worldwide but that almost everyone whose opinion you'd respect, including Raimi, realized did not present Spidey at his crime-fighting finest. That's one of the reasons the director had such a good time making "Drag Me To Hell," his return to the horror genre after years spent with Marvel's web-spinning wall-climber. Read more...

Say hello to the MTV Movies Blog's first installment of "Twitter-Wood," the new daily feature where we give you a quick Twitter's eye view of what some of our favorite filmmakers and actors have been doing today. I'm Brian Warmoth -- or as they call me on Twitter, @brianwarmoth -- and I'll be showing up up here every day with our Hollywood Twitter report.

Today we've got all manner of celebrity mayhem ensuing with a late night on the "Iron Man 2" set, which I believe Jon Favreau said he was getting in trouble for talking about, so let's hope he got this tweet cleared through Marvel Studios. There's also an unfortunate traffic ticket, an Oscar winner who's trying to learn golf between shoots for his new film "Casino Jack," and an enthusiastic micro-review of Sam Raimi's latest film, "Drag Me To Hell." So without further ado, welcome to "Twitter-Wood"! Read more...

Director Sam Raimi makes his long awaited and apparently triumphant return to the horror genre this weekend. "Drag Me to Hell," starring Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver and David Paymer, follows loan officer Christine Brown (Lohman) who ends up cursed after she turns down a mortgage extension for the wrong person. Her sanity crumbles as the world around her turns into a sort of living hell.

Now Raimi is far from the first filmmaker to look to the netherworld for inspiration. In the course of building this list, I found that there are surprisingly few horror movies that deal directly with Hell as a location, at least in comparison to other genres. That said, film in general is littered with references, reinterpretations and outright visitations to the realm of the damned. Heck (ha!), as the list below shows, even musicals aren’t safe from Satan’s touch. Read more...

FROM MTV.COM: They don't make movies like "Drag Me to Hell" anymore. Or at least they haven't since Sam Raimi unleashed his bloody-disgusting "Evil Dead" horror satires back in the 1980s. Now Raimi has taken time out from the money-gushing "Spider-Man" franchise to return to his gore-logged quickie-flick roots, and he hasn't lost his touch. You want flying eyeballs? Face-chewing fiends? Projectile worm-spew? You got it.

The story, devised by Raimi and his brother Ivan, concerns an L.A. bank-loan officer named Christine (sunny Alison Lohman, made to be menaced). Christine is bucking for a promotion. When an old woman comes into the bank begging for an extension on her mortgage payment, Christine attempts to demonstrate a merciless bankerly nature by turning her down. Since the woman has one dead eye, long demon nails, and the sort of snaggly teeth that suggest she's spent decades gnawing on drainpipes, any infant might have advised Christine not to get on this hag's to-do list. But she does. Such a bad move.

Continue reading 'Drag Me To Hell': Killing Jokes, By Kurt Loder

Attending the MTV Movie Awards is no simple task, so when it came to snagging some advice for the journey, nothing helps more than to look to the past. That was the case when our guest host Lo Bosworth, from "The Hills," sat down with "Drag Me To Hell" star Justin Long, a past Movie Awards presenter.

So what was Justin's advice for navigating the waters? Let's just say it vaguely involves food. For more from Lo's interview with Justin, click here. The Movie Awards air LIVE this Sunday at 9 p.m. ET, with host Andy Samberg.

Let’s first clear up what a “family-friendly” horror movie is. Clearly, you’re not going to want to show this stuff to squeamish little siblings if it’s just going to scar them. Unless it’s part of your plan of course, but that’s your own business. Sam Raimi’s “Drag Me To Hell,” out this week, has been designated by the MPAA as kosher for all human Americans aged 13 and older. From what I hear, it’s also a hella scary ride.

Director Sam Raimi is very good at capturing disturbing imagery on film. Stuff that just doesn’t quite look right. There’s his “Evil Dead” series of course. And the hard-to-find classic “Crimewave” (written by Ethan and Joel Coen) is filled with twisted absurdity. Even “Spider-Man” had its share of chilling imagery and occasional jump scares. Raimi’s not the only one out there who’s interested in scaring children however. Check out these other examples of family friendly horror flicks.

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When we first broke the news back in January 2008 that the follow-up to the smash film “Alvin and The Chipmunks” would feature the Chipettes, hundreds of fans weighed in with their eagerness to see Brittany, Jeanette and Eleanor. In the months since, rumors have run amok with various female names who could be providing their high-pitched voices, including Miley Cyrus, Joanna “JoJo” Levesque and Drew Barrymore.

Yesterday, we caught up with Alvin himself: Mr. Justin Long. And he gave us some big news on two of the famous females who’ll be loaning their vocal talents to the December follow-up. Read more...

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In Sam Raimi's return to horror "Drag Me To Hell," a young woman (played by Alison Lohman) wants to impress her manager at the bank and goes along with an eviction notice on an elderly lady. Being a Sam Raimi film, you can probably imagine what happens.

"She makes one little mistake, one morally bankrupt, morally questionable decision, our hero will have none of it, she's chosen the wrong woman to screw over," he laughed. "And even though her character is a really good person, she's done something wrong and she basically spends the next 90 minutes paying for it and she is cursed and chased by this demon that over the next three days is going to appear more definitively in the world as we know it and on the third day, drags her kicking and screaming to hell." Read more...