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Sam Raimi

Birth name: Samuel Marshall Raimi

Birth date: 23.10.1959

Highly inventive US film director/producer/writer/actor Sam Raimi first came to the attention of film fans with the savage, yet darkly humorous, low-budget horror film The Evil Dead (1981). From his childhood Raimi was a fan of the cinema and before he was ten years old, he was out making movies with an 8mm camera. He was a devoted fan of The Three Stooges, so much of Raimi's film work in his teens, with good friends Bruce Campbell and Robert G. Tapert, was slapstick comedy based around what they had observed from Stooges movies. Among the three of them they wrote, directed, produced and edited a short horror movie titled Within the Woods (1978), which was then shown to prospective investors to raise the money necessary to film The Evil Dead (1981). It met with lukewarm interest in the US with local distributors, so Raimi took the film to Europe, where it was much more warmly received. After it started gaining positive reviews and, more importantly, ticket sales upon its release in Europe, US distributors showed renewed interest, and "Evil Dead" was eventually released stateside to strong box office returns. His next directorial effort was Crimewave (1985), a quirky, cartoon-like effort that failed to catch fire with audiences. However, he bounced back with Evil Dead II (1987), a racier and more humorous remake/sequel to the original "Dead" that did even better at the box office. Raimi was then given his biggest budget to date to shoot Darkman (1990), a comic book-style fantasy about a scarred avenger. The film did moderate business, but Raimi's strong visual style was evident throughout the film via inventive and startling camera work that caught the attention of numerous critics. The third chapter in the Evil Dead story beckoned, and Raimi once again directed buddy Campbell as the gritty hero "Ash", in the Gothic horror _Army of Darkness (1993)_ . Raimi surprised fans when he took a turn away from the fantasy genre and directed Gene Hackman and Sharon Stone in the sexy western The Quick and the Dead (1995); four years later he took the directorial reins on A Simple Plan (1998), a crime thriller about stolen money starring Bill Paxton and Bridget Fonda. In early 1999 he directed the baseball film For Love of the Game (1999) and in 2000 returned to the fantasy genre with a top-flight cast in The Gift (2000). In 2002 Raimi was given a real opportunity to demonstrate his dynamic visual style with the big-budget film adaptation of the Stan Lee comic book superhero Spider-Man (2002), and fans were not disappointed. The movie was strong in both script and effects, and was a runaway success at the box office. Of course, Raimi returned for the sequel, Spider-Man 2 (2004), which surpassed the original in box-office takings.

Filmography

# The Evil Dead (2008) (producer) # The Man Who Couldn't Forget (2007) (producer) # Dibbuk Box (2008) (producer) # Priest (2008) ( (producer) # Boogeyman 2 (2008) (producer) # 30 Days of Night (2007) (producer) # Rise (2006) (completed) (executive producer) # The Messengers (2007) (producer) # The Grudge 2 (2006) (executive producer) # Evil Dead: Regeneration (2005) (VG) (supervising producer) # Xena: The 10th Anniversary Collection (2005) (V) (executive producer) # Boogeyman (2005) (producer) ... aka Boogeyman - Der schwarze Mann (Germany) # The Grudge (2004) (producer) ... aka Fluch, Der (Germany) ... aka The Juon (Japan) # Xena: Warrior Princess - A Friend in Need (The Director's Cut) (2002) (V) (producer) # "Cleopatra 2525" (2000) TV Series (executive producer) (unknown episodes) # "Jack of All Trades" (2000) TV Series (executive producer) (unknown episodes) # "Xena: Warrior Princess" (executive producer) (1 episode, 2000) ... aka Xena (Australia) - Seeds of Faith (2000) TV Episode (executive producer) # "Young Hercules" (executive producer) (4 episodes, 1998-1999) - Under Siege (1999) TV Episode (executive producer) - Me, Myself and Eye (1999) TV Episode (executive producer) - The Treasure of Zeus: Part 2: Between Friends (1998) TV Episode (executive producer) - The Treasure of Zeus: Part 1 (1998) TV Episode (executive producer) # Young Hercules (1998) (V) (executive producer) # Hercules and Xena - The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus (1998) (V) (executive producer) # "Spy Game" (1997) TV Series (executive producer) (unknown episodes) # Darkman III: Die Darkman Die (1996) (V) (executive producer) # "American Gothic" (1995) TV Series (executive producer) (unknown episodes) # "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" (1995) TV Series (executive producer) (unknown episodes) # Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur (1994) (TV) (executive producer) # Hercules in the Underworld (1994) (TV) (executive producer) # Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Hercules and the Circle of Fire (1994) (TV) (executive producer) # Timecop (1994) (producer) # "M.A.N.T.I.S." (1994) TV Series (executive producer) (unknown episodes) # Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Hercules and the Lost Kingdom (1994) (TV) (executive producer) # Hercules and the Amazon Women (1994) (TV) (executive producer) # M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994) (TV) (executive producer) # Darkman II: The Return of Durant (1994) (V) (executive producer) # Hard Target (1993) (executive producer) # Lunatics: A Love Story (1991) (executive producer) # Easy Wheels (1989) (executive producer) # The Dead Next Door (1988) (executive producer) (as The Master Cylinder) # The Evil Dead (1981) (executive producer) ... aka Book of the Dead (USA: première title) ... aka Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead (USA: complete title) ... aka The Evil Dead, the Ultimate Experience in Grueling Horror (USA: closing credits title)