10 Movies That Aren't About What You Think

Sam Raimi's unhinged horror-comedy Drag Me to Hell is actually about far more than a woman trying to shake off a curse which threatens to drag her into the fiery below in three days - it's about eating disorders.

Within days of the film's 2009 release, fans began to speculate that Raimi had actually crafted it as an allegory for protagonist Christine's (Alison Lohman) struggles with food. For one, we learn early on that Christine was an overweight child, and given that so many of the film's hallucination sequences revolve around food or vomit, they've been interpreted as a result of her eating disorder rather than having a genuinely supernatural origin.

While Raimi himself hasn't ever confirmed this reading of the film, it's so perfectly spot-on that it becomes tough to consider the movie any other way on subsequent viewings. And even if Raimi went ahead and refuted it, we'd invoke some Death of the Author here and say that Drag Me to Hell doesn't belong to him anymore - the theory has firmly taken root, and that's that.