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The legendary director, scriptwriter and producer Sam Raimi

Sam Raimi is a legendary director, producer, screenwriter, actor and editor. His best friend since childhood was and still is a video camera.

Rapid takeoff

The project that brought the worldwide fame and popularity of Raimi - "Evil Dead", in which he acted in three ways: the director, screenwriter and co-producer. For the period of the film's creation, director Sam Raimi hardly celebrated his 21st birthday, and the project was originally conceived as a pleasant pastime-entertainment of a group of like-minded people: Bruce Campbell, Robert Tappert and Sam himself. The budget of the picture barely held up to $ 350,000. This youth comic horror film brought fabulous profits to the creators, almost 60 times paid off at the box office all over the planet. The story of college students who discovered on their head in an abandoned forest house the presence of demons from the other world, acquired the status of a cult. Sam Raimi, unexpectedly for himself, has become a legendary personality among fans of the horror genre and even among film critics from different continents. Thanks to his work in the press, many publications appeared that praised the praises of class B films, stylistic refinements of provincial, and therefore low-budget, semi-amateur films.

Regularity

Such a deafening success naturally provoked the author to release the sequel "The Evil Dead 2" (1987) and the third part - "Army of Darkness" (1992), which together with the original picture formed one of the most innovative film franchises in terms of the horror genre. Sam Raimi in his subsequent projects retained his author's, recognizable style, stated in the first work. The second film was filmed for quite a considerable sum (unlike the first one) - $ 3,500,000. And the film critics did not shift surprise with technical and techniques, special effects and other director freaks. Five years after the release of the sequel, Sam Raimi for $ 13,000,000 withdraws the "Army of Darkness" - the third part of the franchise. The author allowed himself some liberties, moving away from the classical canons of the horror genre in the postmodern vaudeville, the director creates a unique black comedy that almost does not frighten, but accurately makes you laugh.

On the brink of horror

On the same fine line of comedy and horror balanced the next work of the director - "The Man of Darkness" (1990). Sam Raimi immerses with the viewer's head into an entertaining, adventurous, spectacular and visually super-effective atmosphere. A stylish fantasy thriller thriller about the adventures of a mysterious inhabitant with a disfigured face motivates the appearance of two more sequels. After that, Sam Raimi, whose films are mostly sustained in the genre of horror, succumbed to the fashion trend for the creation of mystical thrillers and shot a film about the gift of clairvoyance under the proper name "Gift". On the role of central characters, the director invited the stars of world cinema: K. Reeves, C. Blanchett and H. Swank.

The year of 2013 was marked by the author's return to the famous franchise "Evil Dead", the movie "The Evil Dead": "The Black Book" is a remake of the original first film. In this project, the director's chair is occupied by Federico Alvarez, and Sam Raimi, whose films inspired filmmakers to create a remake, co-wrote the script and produced.

Incredible spectator resonance

Megaproject is the long-awaited and desired by fans around the world of the screen version of the comic book series "Spider-Man" became the loudest and most profitable for Raimi. "Sam Spiderman" Sam Raimi - a kind of "fairy tale for adults", which had a fairly solid budget - $ 139 million, while the tape itself paid off in the world six times. This is the paradox. The fact is that the picture was not recognized by film professionals, and it was more than approvingly met by connoisseurs-fans of this comic strip, however, as well as inexperienced in this issue by the audience. Two subsequent parts of the trilogy became equally popular and popular. But the adherents of the early work of the filmmaker still give the palm of primacy to hovering the camera above the surface of the earth in "Evil Dead" in comparison with the dizzying flights of Spider-Man from the roof of one skyscraper to another in a teenager blockbuster.

As a producer

Throughout his creative career, Raimi has repeatedly appeared as a producer of all television series. In them a significant place is occupied by the so-called pseudo-historical "soap operas", for example, known to the domestic audience "The Adventures of Hercules" and "Xena - the Warrior Princess". Given that recently in Hollywood, a tendency to secondary and the studio took up the resuscitation of old, proven movie hits of the 90's, it is possible and a quick return of the series "Xena - the Warrior Princess." Sam Raimi does not deny the allegations of the ubiquitous paparazzi that he will work on the project with Robert Tapert, but retains the intrigue - it is not yet known whether the actress Lucy Lawless, the performer of the role of Xena of the 90s, will return to the project.

Actor

Filmography Raimi-actor has more than 25 positions. Of course, Sam did not play the role of the main characters, rather friendly cameos in his or produced films and episodic roles in films of colleagues in the horror shop, for example: "Striker War", "Maniac-policeman", "Miller Crossroads," "Blood of innocents ", A mini-series" Shining ". Curious, but Raimi ordered not to indicate his name in the credits of the following films, although he played in them the roles of minor colorful characters: "Drag Me To Hell", "Spiderman 2" and in the trilogy "Evil Dead".

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