Sam Raimi

Samuel Marshall "Sam" Raimi (born October 23, 1959) is an American film director, producer, and writer. He is best known for directing the classic cult-horror film The Evil Dead and the blockbuster Spider-Man films.

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Raimi was born in Franklin, Michigan to a Jewish family. He is an alumnus of Michigan State University.

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He was introduced to film-making by school-friend Bruce Campbell, who had a hobby of making films with a Super 8mm camera. At college, he teamed up with his room-mate Robert Tapert and Campbell to raise money for a low-budget horror film. The Evil Dead (1983) became a major hit and he began work on his second film Crimewave (1985), intended as a live-action comic book - the film was not successful. Raimi returned to the horror genre with the seminal Evil Dead II (which toned down the savageness of the original in favour of slapstick, showcasing his love of the Three Stooges). A long-time comic book buff, he attempted to adapt "The Shadow" into a movie, but was unable to secure the rights. So he created his own super-hero, Darkman (1990). The film was was his first major studio picture, and was only moderately successful, but he was still able to secure funding for Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness, which turned away almost totally from horror in favour of fantasy and comedy elements.

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