Lorna Raver, who played Mrs Ganush in Sam Raimi’s hit horror Drag Me to Hell, has died at the age of 81.
According to the Hollywood Reporter , her death was included in the “in memoriam” section of the Screen Actors Guild’s summer magazine. She died in May.
Raver is best known for playing the woman who curses Alison Lohman’s bank teller in Drag Me to Hell, Raimi’s 2009 horror movie. The film premiered at Cannes and made more than $90m at the global box office.
“We just wanted to tell the story of a person who wants to be a good person but who makes a sinful choice out of greed, for their own benefit, and pays the price for it,” Raimi said upon its premiere.
It received positive reviews from critics, many of whom praised Raver’s performance. In her review for the New York Times, Jeann