If you saw “Drag Me to Hell” you know it’s a fun ride, though not particularly original with the plotting. I wrote a review of it for CDInsight.com.

 What I didn’t make note of in that mostly favorable review was a mention of a scene that must have been cut. When Christine, played by the very innocent looking Alison Lohman tries to visit the Gypsy woman that put a curse on her, she runs into a family member who says something to the extent, “You were a fat girl once?”  Christine shamefully agrees.

 In another scene, she looks at an old picture of herself winning a contest for what looks to be the “best pig.” A literal pig that is, she was raised on a farm. This was one of those small town fairs where they award prizes from pies to Bob Ross imitated artwork.

And lastly, whenever Christine has a run in with a ghost, she becomes depressed and starts eating.

 So what I’m asking is where is the “fat scene”? This is a hell of a lot of foreshadowing for some terror to befall her. I was anticipating that part of the curse was for her to start gaining weight slowly or gain weight all at once in an embarrassing moment in front of friends or co-workers. It never happened.

You’ll have to try hard to convince me that the “fat girl” references were just for character building. I think Sam Raimi had something planned and it got cut or the studio execs said “no” for some reason or maybe even the MPAA said the scene had to go or no PG 13 rating.  I realize I’m bordering on a conspiracy theory here, but why all the fat remarks?

According to Times Online Raimi did have “final cut.” I’m guessing the fat girl scene may have been written out at some point because it wouldn’t work. I still would like to ask the director though…

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