Lorna Raver, ‘Drag Me to Hell’ Actress, Useless at 81

Lorna Raver — greatest referred to as the creepy previous lady who cursed Alison Lohman in Sam Raimi‘s horror hit “Drag Me to Hell” — has died.

Raver died on Might 12 … her demise was introduced within the “In Memoriam” part of SAG-AFTRA’s Summer time 2025 journal.

Raver’s chilling flip as Mrs. Sylvia Ganush within the 2009 cult traditional helped drive the movie to a virtually $91 million worldwide field workplace return. She admitted in a 2014 interview she had no concept what the film was about when she auditioned, however took the function due to Raimi, saying she wasn’t totally conscious of what she was stepping into.

The actress had a run on TV cleaning soap opera “The Younger and the Stressed,” and appeared in different exhibits, together with “The Observe,” “Ally McBeal,” “Boston Authorized,” “Gray’s Anatomy,” “Determined Housewives,” “Weeds,” and “Bones.”

Raver was additionally an acclaimed audiobook narrator, successful a number of Earphones Awards. She was partnered for 25 years with radio writer-producer Yuri Rasovsky, who died in 2012.

Raver was 81.