The Plot: A loans officer becomes inflicted with a supernatural curse when she is forced to evict an elderly lady from her home. Desperate to find a cure, she seeks out a sage who tries to help her. The Subtext: There are implications which suggest that Drag Me to Hell might be about the protagonist's (Alison Lohman's Christine) struggle with an eating disorder. One of those that has developed as more of a fan-theory - as opposed to being a direct implication created by the filmmaker, in this case Sam Raimi - 2009's Drag Me to Hell has a perceived bulimia subtext, one with ever-increasing credibility. One of the better horror films of the last decade, the film tells us that Christine was overweight as a child, and at one point we see a picture of her in front of a sign which reads "Swine Queen". It is noted that her mother had an addiction, and that Christine wants to avoid the same fate. The macabre, grotesque hallucinations that Christine suffers as a consequence of her curse occur whenever food is presented, and while it may be a stretch to suggest that they are all manifestations of her bulimia - figments of her imagination inspired by her disorder - there's certainly some weight behind the theory, especially when you consider that depictions of vomiting and rotting teeth, two of the anxiety's traits, are frequent throughout the film.
