10 Hit Horror Movies That DIDN'T Get Sequels

Sam Raimi, creator of The Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, and Army of Darkness, is no stranger to a horror franchise. When Drag Me to Hell made $90.8 million at the box office from a $30 million budget and was hailed as a modern horror classic by the critics, Rami and his producers must’ve been tempted to get a sequel penned pronto.

The whole point of a curse is that it continues to cause havoc until it is broken. And a good horror film curse should be tough to break, otherwise where’s the horror? In Drag Me to Hell, loan officer Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) suffers a gypsy’s curse after denying an elderly European woman a mortgage extension.

What follows is a series of typically-Rami grotesque and unfortunate events, culminating in Christine being literally dragged to hell by a hilarious pair of flaming hands. Not only has she failed to break the curse, but as the credits roll, we audience members know that she has unwittingly passed it on to her boyfriend by leaving him with her hexed button.

It’s a real surprise that the story of this cursed button was not followed up on. Raimi has the mainstream clout to bring in an audience, and the film’s campy tone keeps the appeal broader than that of contemporaneous torture porn films. Drag Me to Hell 2 could see Christine return from Hell to either torment or aid her cursed boyfriend.

Or maybe the spooky button finds its way onto the jumper of another unlucky loan officer (or another profession that Rami deems deserving of cursing to Hell!).