8 Horror Movies With Incredible Hidden Messages You Totally Missed

Walking the line as a subtle horror-comedy, Drag Me To Hell is the farcical horror movie that serves up both terrifying demons and talking goats in equal measure. And whilst it thrives on the story of a young woman plagued by a curse and a whole host of absurd demonic interventions, the supernatural threat isn't all that it appears to be.

Drag Me To Hell is the slow descent of Christine as she loses her mind and body to an eating disorder. She's controlled by her internal struggle with bulimia, an illness that plays out as the Lamia hunting down her soul - when in actuality it's herself she's stuck in an eternal battle with.

Christine was known as an overweight child dubbed the 'Swine Queen', as we learn from a photograph, and has tried to shake that past continuously by becoming a successful, attractive banker. Food is the link to her past that she refuses to acknowledge, with the demonic Lamia manifesting every time she's in close proximity to eating: he always attacks in the kitchen, appears as an eyeball in her cake, and uses vomit as a continuous form of torture.

The old woman is a representation of what her illness will do to her if she can't curb it. She's her future - toothless, ugly, and stealing candy from the bank's desk. The horror of Drag Me To Hell is the pressure of society on young women to be attractive and thin, and it condemns her to hell in the process.