Actress Lorna Raver has died at age 81.
Raver passed on May 12, 2025, according to SAG-AFTRA’s Summer 2025 magazine, which announced her death in their ‘In Memoriam’ section.
Raver, who has 55 acting credits to her IMDB page, is memorably known for her portrayal of Mrs. Ganush, a woman who places a curse on the lead, in the 2009 horror film Drag Me To Hell.
One fan posted to X of her passing, ‘What a memorable turn she gave in Drag Me To Hell. R.I.P.’
Another posted: ‘#RIP Lorna Raver. The stage-trained actress was excellent as Mrs. Ganush, the witchy woman who plants a curse on Allison Lohman’s banker in Sam Raimi’s ‘Drag Me to Hell.’ When she auditioned, “I was not fully aware of exactly what I was getting into.”‘
The appeal of working with director Sam Raimi, who also helmed 2004’s Spider-Man, is what drew Raver to join the cast.
Drag Me To Hell actress Lorna Raver has died at age 81
Raver is memorably known for her portrayal of Mrs. Ganush, a woman who places a curse on the main star
Yet she was not ‘fully’ prepared for what the role entailed until she joined.
‘While I knew of [Raimi’s] work from other films, I was so ignorant of the whole horror genre that I had never even heard of the Evil Dead [movies],’ she recalled in the Jason Norman book Welcome to Our Nightmares: Behind the Scene With Today’s Horror Actor, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
‘I was definitely interested in doing it because of Sam Raimi, but I was not fully aware of exactly what I was getting into until it happened,’ she said.
‘What I liked about the character,’ the actress said, ‘was that she was powerful.’
Raver was inclined to join the film in order to work with director Sam Raimi
