Drag Me to Hell

Christine Brown works at a bank, competing for a promotion she badly wants. When elderly Mrs. Ganush arrives to beg for a third extension on her mortgage, Christine denies her to prove to her boss that she can make hard calls. Mrs. Ganush drops to her knees in the lobby, pleading. Christine holds firm. In the parking garage after work, Mrs. Ganush attacks Christine in her car — grabbing, clawing, and finally tearing a button from Christine's coat, muttering a curse over it. Christine fights her off.

A demon attacks Christine at home that night. She visits psychic Rham Jas, who confirms it: she has been cursed with the Lamia, a demon that torments its victim for three days and drags them to hell on the third night. There are two exits — find someone powerful enough to banish it, or transfer the curse to another person by passing them the cursed object.

Christine tracks down Shaun San Dena, an aging spirit medium who faced the Lamia decades ago and lost her son. San Dena agrees to hold a séance. The ritual collapses badly — the Lamia overpowers it, kills one of the participants, and San Dena dies in the confrontation. The demon cannot be fought. It must be passed.

Christine decides to give the button to Mrs. Ganush. But Mrs. Ganush has just died. Christine goes to the funeral home that night, digs into the grave, pries open the coffin, and forces the button into the dead woman's mouth. She buries her back. It's done.

The next morning, Christine meets her boyfriend Clay at the train station. She's free. She's happy. He reaches into his coat and holds out the button — he found it in the envelope she gave him, thought she had dropped it by mistake, saved it for her. The envelope she buried was the wrong one. The cursed button never left her.

The ground tears open beneath her feet. Hands reach up from the flames. Christine is dragged screaming into hell as Clay watches from the platform, unable to reach her.