Highly inventive U.S. 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. 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...See full bio »
In an American horror film, you usually have a character and a shot of them. Then their point-of-view moving down a hallway, approaching a door and they're coming closer to the door. And a hand reaches for the knob, and you know, the moment or the moment before or the moment after, based on the timing of the editor and the director...
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Trivia:
He wanted to adapt and direct
The Shadow, but was denied the rights to do it. Instead, he created his own superhero with his film
Darkman.
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Trademark:
References to the works of Alfred Hitchcock
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