10 Horror Movie Characters Who Got Advice From THE WORST PLACE POSSIBLE

3. San Dena Proves Absolutely Useless - Drag Me To Hell

$10,000 for a botched séance that features a demented goat, a vomited-up dead cat, and the death of the wise, wise soul whose advice you've sought out for that fee? Yep, things didn't go all that well for Alison Lohman's Christine in Drag Me to Hell.

After Christine had turned down a mortgage extension for a truly desperate Sylvia Ganush, a curse is placed upon her for bringing shame to the proud, elderly lady. When things take a turn for the eerie, Christine and her partner Clay visit fortune teller Rham Jas for advice on how to to deal with this haunting pickle.

Skip ahead through the death of Ganush, the sacrificing of Christine's kitten and a bunch of creepy hallucinations, and Jas directs Lohman's character towards an all-powerful figure called San Dena.

San Dena plans to summon the demon who's been tormenting Christine - a presence called Lamia - and place this sinister figure into the the form of a waiting goat, then kill that goat and erase Lamia out of the equation.

This goes spectacularly wrong, with Lamia possessing San Dena and her assistant, causing that assistant to sick up the aforementioned dead cat, killing San Dena and her aide, and causing a goat to mock Christine.

Authored by Andrew Pollard

Senior Writer

Once described as the Swiss Army Knife of WhatCulture, Andrew can usually be found writing, editing, or presenting on a wide range of topics. As a lifelong wrestling fan, horror obsessive, and comic book nerd, he's been covering those topics professionally as far back as 2010. In addition to his current WhatCulture role of Senior Content Producer, Andrew previously spent nearly a decade as Online Editor and Lead Writer for the world's longest-running genre publication, Starburst Magazine, and his work has also been featured on BBC, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, WhatToWatch, Sportkskeeda, and various other outlets, in addition to being a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic. Between his main day job, his role as the lead panel host of Wales Comic Con, and his gig as a pre-match host for Wrexham AFC games, Andrew has also carried out a hugely varied amount of interviews, from the likes of Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Adrienne Barbeau, Rob Zombie, Katharine Isabelle, Leigh Whannell, Bruce Campbell, and Tony Todd, to Kevin Smith, Ron Perlman, Elijah Wood, Giancarlo Esposito, Simon Pegg, Charlie Cox, the Russo Brothers, and Brian Blessed, to Kevin Conroy, Paul Dini, Tara Strong, Will Friedle, Burt Ward, Andrea Romano, Frank Miller, and Rob Liefeld, to Bret Hart, Sting, Mick Foley, Ricky Starks/Saints, Jamie Hayter, Britt Baker, Eric Bischoff, and William Regal, to Mickey Thomas, Joey Jones, Phil Parkinson, Brian Flynn, Denis Smith, Gary Bennett, Karl Connolly, and Bryan Robson - and that's just the tip of an ever-expanding iceberg. Where his beloved Wrexham AFC is concerned, Andrew is co-host of the Fearless in Devotion podcast, which won the Club Podcast of the Year gong at the 2024 FSA Awards.

First Posted On: 2nd Mar 2021

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