Sam Raimi

Born:1959年10月23日

Place of Birth:Royal Oak, Michigan, USA

Known For:Directing

Biography

Sam Raimi, born on October 23, 1959, is a visionary American filmmaker who has left an indelible mark on the world of cinema. With a career spanning over four decades, Raimi has established himself as a versatile director, screenwriter, and producer. He first gained recognition for his work on the groundbreaking Evil Dead franchise, which he both directed and co-wrote, showcasing his unique blend of horror and dark humor.

Raimi's creative genius shone brightly in the Spider-Man trilogy, where he brought the beloved comic book superhero to life on the big screen. His ability to infuse his films with dynamic visual style, drawing inspiration from comic books and slapstick comedy, set him apart as a true auteur in the industry. Raimi's storytelling prowess is evident in the diverse range of genres he has tackled, from supernatural thrillers to revisionist westerns, each film a testament to his cinematic vision.

In addition to his work in film, Raimi has made significant contributions to television, producing iconic series such as Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess. His collaboration with longtime friend and actor Bruce Campbell in the Evil Dead franchise and Ash vs. Evil Dead has delighted audiences and solidified their status as a dynamic duo in the realm of horror entertainment.

As a co-founder of Renaissance Pictures and Ghost House Pictures, Raimi has nurtured emerging talent and championed innovative storytelling. His foray into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is a testament to his enduring impact on the industry, continuing to push boundaries and captivate audiences with his bold and imaginative storytelling.

With a career marked by critical acclaim and commercial success, Sam Raimi stands as a cinematic trailblazer whose influence reverberates throughout the world of film. His ability to seamlessly blend genres and craft compelling narratives has solidified his place as a master storyteller, leaving an indelible legacy that will continue to inspire generations of filmmakers to come.

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Spider-Man

Popcorn Thrower (uncredited)

2002

After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.

The Jungle Book

Giant Squirrel (voice)

2016

A man-cub named Mowgli fostered by wolves. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli is forced to flee the jungle, by which he embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera and the free-spirited bear, Baloo.

Spider-Man 2

University Student with Bag (uncredited)

2004

Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still can't act on his feelings for Mary Jane Watson, a girl he's loved since childhood. A certain anger begins to brew in his best friend Harry Osborn as well...

Drag Me to Hell

Ghost at Seance (uncredited)

2009

After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is skeptical. Her only hope seems to lie in a psychic who claims he can help her lift the curse and keep her soul from being dragged straight to hell.

The Flintstones

Cliff Look-A-Like

1994

Modern Stone Age family the Flintstones hit the big screen in this live-action version of the classic cartoon. Fred helps Barney adopt a child. Barney sees an opportunity to repay him when Slate Mining tests its employees to find a new executive. But no good deed goes unpunished.

The Evil Dead

Hitchhiking Fisherman / Evil Force (uncredited)

1981

In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.

Army of Darkness

Knight in Sweatshirt and Sneakers (uncredited)

1992

Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead.

Evil Dead II

Fake Shemp / Medieval Soldier / Possessed Rocking Chair

1987

Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from "The Book of the Dead." As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda's body.

Miller's Crossing

Snickering Gunman

1990

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

Self (archive footage)

2022

JB Smoove and Martin Starr host a celebration of 20 years of "Spider-Man" movies, from the Sam Raimi trilogy to Marc Webb's movies and the trio from Jon Watts.

Innocent Blood

Roma Meats Man

1992

Marie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her victims, a violent mob boss, she bites off more than she can chew and faces a new, immortal danger.

The Hudsucker Proxy

Hudsucker Brainstormer

1994

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

Spies Like Us

Drive-In Security

1985

Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.

Freaked

Crooked Cop (uncredited)

1993

A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist.

Body Bags

Bill - Dead Attendant

1993

A woman working the late shift at a gas station while a killer is on the loose; a man who can't stand the thought of losing his hair; a baseball player that submits to an eye transplant. An anthology of terror.

Maniac Cop

Parade Reporter

1988

Innocent people are brutally killed on the streets of New York by a uniformed police officer. A young cop, Jack Forrest, finds himself marked as the chief suspect after his wife is murdered.

制作

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Director

2022

Doctor Strange, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary.

Spider-Man

Director

2002

After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.

Spider-Man 3

Screenplay

2007

The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers are altered by an alien organism, his alter ego, Peter Parker, deals with nemesis Eddie Brock and also gets caught up in a love triangle.

Evil Dead Rise

Executive Producer

2023

A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

Don't Move

Producer

2024

A grieving woman in a secluded forest encounters a killer who injects her with a paralytic drug. As her body shuts down, her fight for survival begins.

65 Producer

2023

65 million years ago, the only 2 survivors of a spaceship from Somaris that crash-landed on Earth, must fend off dinosaurs to reach the escape vessel in time before an imminent asteroid strike threatens to destroy the planet.

Spider-Man 2

Director

2004

Hard Target

Executive Producer

1993

When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.

Crawl

Producer

2019

When a huge hurricane hits her hometown in Florida, Haley ignores evacuation orders to look for her father. After finding him badly wounded, both are trapped by the flood. With virtually no time to escape the storm, they discover that rising water levels are the least of their problems.

Oz the Great and Powerful

Director

2013

Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.

Don't Breathe

Producer

2016

A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.

Drag Me to Hell

Writer

2009

30 Days of Night

Producer

2007

This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.

Evil Dead

Original Film Writer

2013

Mia, a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David, his girlfriend, Natalie and their friends Olivia and Eric to accompany her to their family's remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal. Eric finds a mysterious Book of the Dead at the cabin and reads aloud from it, awakening an ancient demon. All hell breaks loose when the malevolent entity possesses Mia.

The Evil Dead

Executive Producer

1981

In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.

Army of Darkness

Editor

1992

Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead.

Don't Breathe 2

Producer

2021

The Blind Man has been hiding out for several years in an isolated cabin and has taken in and raised a young girl orphaned from a devastating house fire. Their quiet life together is shattered when a group of criminals kidnap the girl, forcing the Blind Man to leave his safe haven to save her.

Evil Dead II

Screenplay

1987

Boy Kills World

Producer

2024

When his family is murdered, a deaf-mute named Boy escapes to the jungle and is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death.

The Unholy

Producer

2021

Alice is a young hearing-impaired girl who, after a supposed visitation from the Virgin Mary, is inexplicably able to hear, speak and heal the sick. As word spreads and people from near and far flock to witness her miracles, a disgraced journalist hoping to revive his career visits the small New England town to investigate. When terrifying events begin to happen all around, he starts to question if these phenomena are the works of the Virgin Mary or something much more sinister.

The Dead Don't Die

Thanks

2019

In a small peaceful town, zombies suddenly rise to terrorize the town. Now three bespectacled police officers and a strange Scottish morgue expert must band together to defeat the undead.

Poltergeist

Producer

2015

A family's suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.

The Grudge

Producer

2004

An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.

Timecop

Producer

1994

In 2004, an officer for a security agency that regulates time travel must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.

The Quick and the Dead

Director

1995

A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.

The Grudge

Producer

2019

After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a detective attempts to investigate the mysterious case, only to discover that the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost. Now targeted by the demonic spirits, the detective must do anything to protect herself and her family from harm.

The Possession

Executive Producer

2012

A young girl buys an antique box at a yard sale, unaware that inside the collectible lives a malicious ancient spirit. The girl's father teams with his ex-wife to find a way to end the curse upon their child.

The Gift

Director

2000

Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures⁠—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by a client's violent husband and plagued by visions of a missing local woman, Annie finds herself pulled into a thicket of lies and deception in which her extraordinary gift may ultimately get her killed.

Darkman

Director

1990

Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.

Nightbooks

Producer

2021

Alex, a boy obsessed with scary stories, is trapped by a witch in her modern, magical New York City apartment. His original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping him safe as he desperately tries to find a way out of this twisted place.

Blood Simple

Production Consultant

1984

The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

The Grudge 2

Producer

2006

A young woman encounters a malevolent supernatural force while searching for her missing sister in Tokyo, a mean high school prank goes horribly wrong, and strange things begin happening in a Chicago apartment building.

The Hudsucker Proxy

Second Unit Director

1994

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

A Simple Plan

Director

1998

Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain the money while avoiding detection opens a Pandora's box when the fear of getting caught triggers panicked behavior and leads to virulent consequences.

The Messengers

Producer

2007

When the Solomons trade in the craziness of big-city life for the quiet of a North Dakota farm, little do they expect the nightmare that follows. Soon after arriving, teenage Jess (Kristen Stewart) and her younger brother see terrifying apparitions and endure attacks from a supernatural source. Jess must warn her disbelieving family before it is too late to save them.

Boogeyman

Producer

2005

Every culture has one – the horrible monster fueling young children's nightmares. But for Tim, the Boogeyman still lives in his memories as a creature that devoured his father 16 years ago. Is the Boogeyman real, or did Tim make it up to explain why his father abandoned his family?

For Love of the Game

Director

1999

A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years.