Sam Raimi

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Sam Raimi
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Actor
Born:
October 23, 1959 in Franklin, MI
Biography:Like most children of the 1960s, "Sam Raimi" grew up acting out his fantasies with the benefit of an 8 mm movie camera. The film gauge "grew to 35" when Raimi, with the aid of friends and relatives, raised 500,000 dollars to film a horror feature, "The Evil Dead" (1983). Not your average sliced-up-teenager epic, "Evil Dead" was a marvelously wicked assault on the senses, belying its tiny budget with several extremely clever (if nausea-inducing) set pieces. Raimi switched to slapstick comedy with Crimewave (1985), a wild Detroit-based crime caper co-scripted by Raimi's friends and fellow devotees of the bizarre, Joel and "Ethan Coen". "Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn" (1987) giddily expanded the scope and splat-stick humor of the initial installment, and quickly became a cult classic with it s over-the-top gore and imaginative direction. "Evil Dead 2" was the mark of a director truly at the top of his... Full Biography
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Director Sam Raimi and Topher Grace on the set of "Spider-Man 3"
Sam Raimi at the Spider-Man 2 premiere in Westwood on June 22, 2004
Sam Raimi at the Spider-Man 2 premiere in Westwood on June 22, 2004
Sam Raimi at the Spider-Man 2 premiere in Westwood on June 22, 2004
Sam Raimi at the Spider-Man 2 premiere in Westwood on June 22, 2004
Sam Raimi at the Spider-Man 2 premiere in Westwood on June 22, 2004
Sam Raimi at the Spider-Man 2 premiere in Westwood on June 22, 2004
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