Sam RaimiFilmography

Born:: October 23, 1959 in Franklin, MI
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
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...Read More

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Warcraft

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Blockbuster filmmaker Sam Raimi takes on the World of Warcraft game franchise with this live-action Warner Bros. production, from a script by Saving Private Ryan's Robert Rodat. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/13
Spider-Man 4

Crew: Director

Actors: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst

Synopsis: Columbia Pictures continues the Spider-Man franchise with this fourth entry starring Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst. Director Sam Raimi once again steps back behind the camera, supporting a script by James Vanderbilt (Zodiac) and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire. ~ Jeremy Read More

5/5/11
Monster Zoo

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Sam Raimi presents this adaptation of Earthworm Jim's creator Doug TenNapel's graphic novel Monster Zoo for Paramount Pictures and Buckaroo Entertainment. The story concerns a boy's realization that his local zoo is inhabited by far more than your average selection of zoo animals. ~ Jeremy Read More

1/1/10
Burst

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Genre director Neil Marshall (The Descent, Doomsday) joins forces with Ghost House Pictures producers Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert to bring audiences an explosive tale of frozen terror with this Lionsgate horror production. The script, by Gary Dauberman, tells of a stranded group of people in a Read More

1/1/10
The Transplants

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Sam Raimi presents a superhero tale for Buena Vista with this action adventure ensemble film from the writers of Not Another Teen Movie, Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/10
Armored

Crew: Producer

Actors: Matt Dillon, Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne, Amaury Nolasco, Fred Ward, Milo Ventimiglia, Skeet Ulrich, Columbus Short

Synopsis: Vacancy director Nimród Antal helms the crime thriller Armored, starring Matt Dillon as an armored truck guard who gets wrapped up in a heist scheme hatched by his friends. Stomp the Yard's Columbus Short co-stars in the James V. Simpson-scripted film, produced by Screen Gems Entertainment. Read More

12/4/09
Drag Me to Hell

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, David Paymer, Dileep Rao

Synopsis: Evil Dead director Sam Raimi takes the helm for this "spook-a-blast" shocker about an ambitious L.A. loan officer who incurs the wrath of a malevolent gypsy by refusing to grant her an extension on her home loan. Determined to impress her boss and get a much-needed promotion at work, Christine Read More

5/29/09
The Shadow

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Spider-Man director Sam Raimi teams with Josh Donen and screenwriter Siavash Farahani to find out what evil lurks within the hearts of men with this update of Walter B. Gibson's 1930s-era pulp radio show that evolved into a popular Columbia cliffhanger starring Victor Jory before being adapted Read More

1/1/09
The Grudge 3

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The ghosts of Kayako and Toshio return to spread terror as the Grudge saga continues in this sequel featuring Saw star Shawnee Smith. Jake (Matthew Knight) may have survived the previous supernatural onslaught, though the sheer terror of his harrowing ordeal has rendered him nearly insane. Read More

2009
Legend of the Seeker [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: This first-run syndicated fantasy series from producer Sam Rami follows in the footsteps of Rami's previous efforts, like Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules. Based on the Sword of Truth series of novels by author Terry Goodkind, the series takes place in a fantasy world, where modern technology Read More

2008
Boogeyman 2

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Danielle Savre, David Gallagher, Michael Graziadei, Mae Whitman, Tobin Bell

Synopsis: A young woman attempts to cure her phobia of the boogeyman by checking herself into a mental health facility, only to realize too little too late that she is now helplessly trapped with her own greatest fear. Editor-turned-director Jeff Betancourt takes the helm for this Ghost House Pictures Read More

2008
30 Days of Night

Crew: Producer

Actors: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Ben Foster, Mark Boone, Jr.

Synopsis: Hard Candy director David Slade took the helm for this adaptation of Steve Niles' terrifying comic-book series of the same name. In Barrow, AK, one night can last an eternity. One month every year, this town is plunged into darkness for 30 days due to its location far north of the Arctic Circle. Read More

10/19/07
Spider-Man 3

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco

Synopsis: Your friendly neighborhood web-slinger is back, only this time his sunny outlook has become partially overcast in the third chapter of director Sam Raimi's Spider-Man saga. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and James Franco return to reprise their roles from the previous two installments, with Thomas Haden Church Read More

5/4/07
The Messengers

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, John Corbett, Evan Turner

Synopsis: Hong Kong horror specialists Danny and Oxide Pang (The Eye, Bangkok Haunted) ponder the paranormal sensitivities of young innocents in this tale of an unsuspecting family who falls prey to a malevolent entity after moving to into a haunted sunflower farm. Roy (Dylan McDermott) and Denise Solomon (Penelope Ann Miller Read More

2/2/07
The Grudge 2

Crew: Producer

Actors: Amber Tamblyn, Arielle Kebbel, Jennifer Beals, Edison Chen, Sarah Roemer

Synopsis: Japanese horror specialist Takashi Shimizu returns to the mythology that terrified audiences the world over with this terror-inducing sequel to the hit 2004 frightener. When a cursed Tokyo home is burned to the ground, the baneful spirit once confined within its walls is suddenly unleased to Read More

10/13/06
Boogeyman

Crew: Producer

Actors: Barry Watson, Emily Deschanel, Skye McCole Bartusiak, Tory Mussett, Andrew Glover, Lucy Lawless

Synopsis: A man learns his past was more truth than imagination in this horror story. Tim (Barry Watson) is a man who is still haunted by traumatic memories of his past, many linked to the death of his father. Desperate to resolve his issues, Tim returns to his old hometown so he can pay a visit to the Read More

2/4/05
The Grudge

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, William Mapother, Clea Duvall, KaDee Strickland, Bill Pullman

Synopsis: This American remake of director Takashi Shimizu's popular Japanese movie franchise The Grudge puts Buffy the Vampire Slayer alumna Sarah Michelle Gellar back into the line of supernatural fire. When Karen (Gellar), an American student working with a Japanese health center for college credit Read More

10/22/04
Spider-Man 2

Crew: Director

Actors: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina, Rosemary Harris, Donna Murphy

Synopsis: Stan Lee's all-too-human superhero returns to the screen in this highly anticipated sequel to 2002's blockbuster hit Spider-Man. Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is attempting to juggle college classes and his job as a photographer with the Daily Bugle while maintaining his secret life as Read More

6/30/04
Spider-Man

Crew: Director

Actors: Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Cliff Robertson

Synopsis: After incorporating elements of comic book style and design into many of his films, director Sam Raimi helms this straight-ahead, big-budget comic book adaptation, which also marks acclaimed young actor Tobey Maguire's first dip into live-action blockbuster filmmaking. Spider-Man follows the Read More

5/3/02
The Gift

Crew: Director

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves, Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear, Hilary Swank

Synopsis: Supernatural horror meets character drama in this Sam Raimi-directed thriller. Set in Georgia, the film concerns a widowed mother named Annie (Cate Blanchett) who is blessed with the ability to have psychic visions. When Annie is asked to use her powers to investigate the murder of a rich society Read More

12/20/00
Jack of All Trades

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Bruce Campbell, Stuart Devenie

Synopsis: Bruce Campbell starts in this cheeky show about Jack Stiles, a secret agent for the Jefferson administration. One part James West and one part Austin Powers, Jack is assigned to go to the East Indies to keep an eye on Napoleon's movements. Initially disappointed at the dullness of the job, Jack's Read More

2000
Cleopatra 2525 [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gina Torres, Victoria Pratt, Jennifer Sky, Patrick Kake

Synopsis: Evil robots, gratuitous explosions, and babes in silver lame bikinis. Set in 2525 after robots called Bailles have forced Earth's human population to retreat underground, a duo of nubile warriors fight their mechanical oppressors. Sarge (Victoria Pratt) and Hel (Gina Torres), who can communicate Read More

2000
Xena: Warrior Princess: Season 06

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Adrienne Wilkinson, William Gregory Lee

Synopsis: Picking up where season five of Xena: Warrior Princess left off, season six begins with Xena (Lucy Lawless) handily defeating the combined forces of the Olympian Gods, who had hoped to forestall their prophesied demise by killing both Xena and her reformed warrior-princess daughter, Eve (Adrienne Wilkinson Read More

2000
For Love of the Game

Crew: Director

Actors: Kevin Costner, Kelly Preston, John C. Reilly, Jena Malone, Brian Cox

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Michael Shaara, For Love of the Game brought Kevin Costner back to the world of baseball after his successes with Bull Durham (1988) and Field of Dreams (1989). Billy Chapel (Kevin Costner) is a star pitcher with the Detroit Tigers, standing on the mound at Yankee Stadium and Read More

9/17/99
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 06

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst

Synopsis: For all intents and purposes, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys had run its course by the end of season five. Even so, the producers wanted to generate a larger syndication package, thus the program was renewed for a sixth season -- consisting of a whole eight episodes. With Hercules' traveling Read More

1999
Xena: Warrior Princess: Season 05

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Adrienne Wilkinson, William Gregory Lee

Synopsis: It sure looked like curtains for Xena: Warrior Princess at the end of the series' fourth season, what with both Xena (Lucy Lawless) and her traveling companion, Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor), being crucified by the Romans, the fulfillment of a prophecy by the evil shamaness Alti (Claire Stansfield). Read More

1999
A Simple Plan

Crew: Director

Actors: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Brent Briscoe, Bridget Fonda, Jack Walsh

Synopsis: Based on Scott B. Smith's bone-chilling 1993 novel, A Simple Plan is a bit of a departure for horror film director Sam Raimi. Instead of flying eyeballs and dancing corpses, A Simple Plan is a taught crime thriller in the vein of Joel Coen's Academy Award-winning Fargo. Set during the white Read More

12/11/98
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 05

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst

Synopsis: While there had been a loosely-basted continuity during the previous five seasons of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys -- held together by the never-ending efforts of half-god, half-human Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) and his mortal friend Iolaus (Michael Hurst) to right wrongs and champion noble causes Read More

1998
Xena: Warrior Princess: Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi

Synopsis: Season three of Xena: Warrior Princess ended on a tragic note, with Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor), friend and chronicler of reformed warrior Xena (Lucy Lawless), sacrificing her life so that her daughter, Hope -- the incarnation of pure evil -- would not be resurrected. Given the series' mythological Read More

1998
Xena: Warrior Princess: Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi

Synopsis: Season three of Xena: Warrior Princess was the series' most eventful 22 episodes to date -- as well as the most mobile, with Xena (Lucy Lawless) and her friend and chronicler, Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor), traveling far and wide, from the British Isles to the far-off Orient. It is, in fact, during Read More

1997
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst

Synopsis: Season four of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys adheres to the basic premise of the previous three seasons: Half-god, half-human Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) continues to spread good will and good deeds throughout the known world, accompanied by his mortal friend Iolaus (Michael Hurst), aided and Read More

1997
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst

Synopsis: Legendary half-human, half-god Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) continues his journeys throughout Greece and the known world to spread goodness and charity and defend the downtrodden as the character's weekly TV series enters its third season. Likewise, still on hand is Hercules' mortal friend and traveling Read More

1996
Xena: Warrior Princess: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi

Synopsis: Season two of Xena: Warrior Princess is noteworthy for several reasons, though two of these stand out above all the rest. The first was the promotion to full "regular" status of the series' principal comedy-relief character, a bumbling wannabe warrior named Joxer (Ted Raimi), who had previously Read More

1996
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst

Synopsis: Season one of the weekly syndicated series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys picks up the action where the fifth of the Hercules TV movies, 1994's Hercules in the Maze of the Monsters, left off. Olympian goddess Hera is determined to wreak vengeance upon her husband, Zeus, king of the gods, for the Read More

1995
The Quick and the Dead

Crew: Director

Actors: Roberts Blossom, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobin Bell

Synopsis: Director Sam Raimi brings his trademark comic book-influenced visual panache to this post-modern Western. Sharon Stone stars as Ellen, a mysterious female gunslinger who arrives in the frontier hamlet of Redemption for a contest pitting quick-draw artists against each other. The event is the Read More

1995
American Gothic [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gary Cole, Paige Turco, Jake Weber, Brenda Bakke, Sarah Paulson, Lucas Black, Nick Searcy

Synopsis: One of the earliest forays into TV production by former teen idol Shaun Cassidy, the weekly, hour-long supernatural drama series American Gothic debuted September 22, 1995 on CBS. Things weren't quite right in the outwardly peaceful and respectable town of Trinity in Fulton County, South Carolina. Read More

1995
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst

Synopsis: Season two of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys finds the titular half-human, half-god Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) and his mortal friend Iolaus (Michael Hurst) persisting in their efforts to spread peace, kindness, and goodwill throughout Greece and the known world, despite the formidable opposition of Read More

1995
Xena: Warrior Princess [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Kevin Smith, Hudson Leick

Synopsis: Created by John Schulian and Robert Tapert, the New Zealand-filmed Xena: Warrior Princess was a spin-off of the tongue-in-cheek "sword and sorcery" series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. As introduced on Hercules, Xena (Lucy Lawless) was a fierce and formidable villainess, the leader of a vast Read More

1995
Xena: Warrior Princess: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor

Synopsis: It had already been established before the first season of Xena: Warrior Princess got under way that the titular Xena (Lucy Lawless) had forsworn her former evil and despotic ways, and was determined to make amends for her past by helping innocents in distress. One of those "innocents" made her Read More

1995
Darkman 2: The Return of Durant

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Arnold Vosloo, Larry Drake, Renee O'Connor, Kim Delaney, Rod Wilson

Synopsis: Darkman is up to his old tricks. He's robbing from the criminals and keeping for himself so he can further perfect his synthetic skin which dissolves after 99 minutes in the light. His old arch-nemesis, Robert Durrant (Larry Drake) returns, having survived the helicopter crash in the first film. Read More

1994
M.A.N.T.I.S.

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gina Torres

Synopsis: Carl Lumbly stars as an unlikely super-hero in this made-for-television sci-fi movie. Lumbly stars as Dr. Miles Hawkins, a wheel-chair bound scientist who concocts a device that not only liberates him from his chair, but turns him into a crime-fighting super hero. The idea was later developed into Read More

1994
The Flintstones

Actors: John Goodman, Elizabeth Perkins, Rick Moranis, Rosie O'Donnell, Kyle MacLachlan

Synopsis: The good (if not fully evolved) citizens of Bedrock make their way to the big screen in this live-action adaptation of the popular animated series of the 1960s. Fred Flintstone (John Goodman) and his best friend Barney Rubble (Rick Moranis) work together at the Slate and Company Rock Quarry. When Read More

1994
The Hudsucker Proxy

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, Charles Durning, John Mahoney

Synopsis: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen concocted this stylish screwball comedic amalgam of Frank Capra and Howard Hawks. Tim Robbins stars as Norville Barnes, a dull-wit from Muncie, Indiana who wrangles a job with the big Hudsucker Industries. He has a singular idea for a new children's toy that he wants to Read More

1994
Hercules and the Lost Kingdom

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Anthony Quinn, Renee O'Connor, Robert Trebor, Eric Close

Synopsis: The second of five made-for-TV movies starring Kevin Sorbo as legendary muscleman Hercules, this one pits the title character against his most fearsome enemy--his own immortal stepmother, Hera. Using a number of disguises, the villainess does her best (or worst) to thwart Hercules in his search Read More

1994
Timecop

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver, Bruce McGill, Gloria Reuben

Synopsis: Based on a comic book story, this futuristic film follows the time-travel exploits of policeman Max Walker (Claude Van Damme). In 1994, Walker's wife Melissa (Mia Sara) is about to tell him that she is expecting their first child when they are attacked by a group of criminals. Walker is shot and Read More

1994
Hercules and the Circle of Fire

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Anthony Quinn, Tawny Kitaen, Kevin Atkinson, Chris Brougham

Synopsis: In the third of five made-for-TV movies starring Kevin Sorbo as legendary superhero Hercules, the Earth is in danger of turning into a block of ice unless the fires of the world can be rekindled. This calamitous situation is the handiwork of Hercules' treacherous stepmother Hera, in whose immortal Read More

1994
Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Anthony Quinn, Tawny Kitaen, Michael Hurst, Ray Anthony Parker

Synopsis: In the last of five made-for-TV movies starring Kevin Sorbo as legendary superhero Hercules, the title character has settled down in a peaceful existence as a farmer with his beloved mortal family. Though Hercules tries hard to teach his children nonviolence, his mighty strength must come back Read More

1994
Body Bags

Actors: Mark Hamill, Stacy Keach, David Warner, John Carpenter, Roger Corman, Wes Craven, Deborah Harry, Tobe Hooper, Sam Raimi

Synopsis: Horror virtuoso John Carpenter hosts this goofy horror anthology, originally produced for Showtime as a gory stepchild of HBO's Tales from the Crypt series. Playing an emaciated, eye-rolling "coroner," John introduces the audience to a triptych of creepy vignettes in the EC horror-comics mode Read More

1993
Indian Summer

Actors: Alan Arkin, Elizabeth Perkins, Matt Craven, Diane Lane, Kimberly Williams, Bill Paxton, Vincent Spano

Synopsis: Mike Binder wrote and directed this reunion story in The Big Chill vein about of group of ex-campers, now in their twenties, who return to their old summer camp to get together again. Alan Arkin plays Uncle Lou, the old camp counselor and resident sage at Canadian summer camp Tamakwa. Leading a Read More

1993
Hard Target

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Arnold Vosloo, Yancy Butler, Kasi Lemmons

Synopsis: John Woo's first Hollywood feature stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Chance Boudreaux, a down-and-out Cajun merchant seaman, who, after saving a young woman, Natasha Binder (Yancy Butler), from a gang of thugs on the streets of New Orleans, agrees to help her search for her father (Chuck Pfarrer), a Read More

1993
Journey to the Center of the Earth

Actors: Kim Miyori, John Neville, Jeffrey Nordling, Farrah Forke, Tim Russ

Synopsis: A scientific expedition to the earth's center goes awry, leaving the explorers marooned in a fantastic underground world. Adapted from Jules Verne's classic adventure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Innocent Blood

Actors: Anne Parillaud, Robert Loggia, Anthony LaPaglia, David Proval, Don Rickles, Don Rickels

Synopsis: An uneven but entertaining blend of graphic horror and black comedy from John Landis, very much in the mode of the director's successful An American Werewolf in London. French actress Anne Parillaud -- star of Luc Besson's acclaimed thriller La Femme Nikita -- plays Marie, a lithe and lovely Read More

9/25/92
Army of Darkness

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert, Ian Abercrombie, Richard Grove

Synopsis: The third in director Sam Raimi's stylish, comic book-like horror trilogy that began with The Evil Dead (1982), this tongue-in-cheek sequel offers equal parts sword-and-sorcery-style action, gore, and comedy. Bruce Campbell returns as the one-armed Ash, now a supermarket employee ("Shop Read More

1992
Lunatics: A Love Story

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Deborah Foreman, Theodore Raimi, Bruce Campbell, George Aguilar, Brian McCree

Synopsis: Evil Dead director Sam Raimi produced this bizarre romance, starring his brother Theodore as Hank, a paranoid shut-in who lines the walls of his Los Angeles apartment with tin foil for protection. After an accidental phone conversation with a seemingly sweet-natured Iowa farm girl named Nancy (Deborah Foreman Read More

1992
Darkman

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels, Larry Drake, Nelson Mashita

Synopsis: Neglecting Julie (Frances McDormand), his lawyer lady friend, Dr. Peyton Westlake (Liam Neeson) works feverishly to perfect his latest invention -- artificial skin that could be used to treat burn victims. Peyton himself falls victim to an explosion when one of Julie's crooked clients sends his Read More

8/24/90
Maniac Cop 2

Actors: Robert Davi, Claudia Christian, Michael Lerner, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon

Synopsis: "You have the right to remain silent . . . Forever!" This sequel to Maniac Cop pits Matt Cordell (Robert Z'dar), the crazed, murderous "Maniac Cop" of the first film (now horribly disfigured after a particularly brutal stay in prison), and Turkel (Leo Rossi), a serial killer who likes to murder Read More

1990
Easy Wheels

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Paul Le Mat, Eileen Davidson, Marjorie Bransfeld, Jon Menick, Mark Holton

Synopsis: Advertised as a parody of cheapo-sleazo biker flicks, Easy Wheels looks so much like the real thing that one wonders whether or not we were originally supposed to take the whole megillah seriously. Biker Bruce (Paul Le Mat) and She Wolf (Eileen Davidson) forget their mutual animosity long enough Read More

1989
The Dead Next Door

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bruce Campbell

Synopsis: The feature debut of ultra-low-budget horror auteur J.R. Bookwalter, this fast-paced zombie mini-epic is very likely the most expensive movie ever shot on Super-8 film. Playing with the long-established mythos of George A. Romero's Living Dead trilogy, The Dead Next Door was produced with the help Read More

1989
Intruder

Synopsis: Gory slasher mayhem from Evil Dead co-writer Scott Spiegel, this claustrophobic thriller is set entirely in a small supermarket, whose owner is preparing to go out of business. This doesn't sit too well with the film's resident maniac, who busily butchers the night crew using the tools of the Read More

1989
Maniac Cop

Actors: Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon, Richard Roundtree, William Smith

Synopsis: A maniacal murderer is stalking New York City cops in this urban crime thriller. Jack Forrest (Bruce Campbell) is suspected of being the killer until Lieutenant McCrae (Tom Atkins) is found dead. Jack takes over the case after McCrae's death with help from undercover cop and sweetheart Theresa (Laurene Landon Read More

5/13/88
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Kassie Wesley, Theodore Raimi

Synopsis: This high-octane semi-sequel to Sam Raimi's cult hit The Evil Dead has nearly eclipsed its predecessor's reputation thanks to an endless barrage of hyperkinetic camera acrobatics, rapid-fire editing and "splatstick" gore effects ... not to mention a truly goofy performance by Bruce Campbell. Read More

3/13/87
Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except

Actors: Brian Schulz, John Manfredi, Robert Rickman, Tim Quill, Sam Raimi

Synopsis: Stryker (Brian Schulz) is a wounded Vietnam vet who sets out to avenge the kidnapping of his girlfriend in this low-budget, blood-spurting slasher film. When Sally (Cheryl Hanson) is abducted, Stryker and his Army buddies go after the leader of a cult, who resembles none other than Charles Manson (Sam Raimi Read More

1987
Crimewave

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Reed Birney, Sheree J. Wilson, Louise Lasser, Paul L. Smith, Brion James

Synopsis: In a slapstick spoof of hitmen and crime stories, the head of a security systems company (Hamid Dana) is bumped off by two gonzo exterminators (Brion James and Paul L. Smith) who have gone from stomping out pesky varmints to stomping out human targets, and one of them does so with gusto. Now the Read More

4/25/86
Spies Like Us

Actors: Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, Donna Dixon, Bruce Davison

Synopsis: Director John Landis helmed this Cold War farce starring Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase as Austin Millbarge and Emmett Fitz-Hume -- two loser misfits who dwell in the lower ranks of the Central Intelligence Agency. Convinced despite much evidence to the contrary that they're prime secret agent Read More

1985
The Evil Dead

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker, Hal Delrich, Sarah York

Synopsis: This auspicious feature debut from Sam Raimi -- shot on 16mm in the woods of Tennesse for around $350,000 -- secured the young director's cult status as a creative force to be reckoned with. The nominal plot involves five vacationing college kids -- Ash (Bruce Campbell), his girlfriend Linda (Betsy Baker Read More

1983

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