Ted Raimi Filmography

The Midnight Meat Train

Actors: Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb, Brooke Shields, Vinnie Jones, Roger Bart, Tony Curran

Synopsis: A photographer propelled to explore his dark side begins tracking a subway serial killer whose brutal butchery makes for the most nightmarish images ever captured on camera in director Ryuhei Kitamura's adaptation of a short story by horror heavyweight Clive Barker. Leon Kaufman (Bradley Cooper) Read More

Spider-Man 3

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

Reign Over Me

Actors: Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Saffron Burrows

Synopsis: A chance run-in with an old college roommate becomes the catalyst for healing in writer/director Mike Binder's tale of friendship and understanding in post-9/11 New York. When the Twin Towers went down on that fateful morning in 2001, Charlie Fineman (Adam Sandler) lost everything that he had to Read More

High Midnight

Millenium Crisis

Actors: Clare Stevenson, Ted Raimi, Ato Essandoh

Synopsis: Ato Essandoh and Ted Raimi star in this deep-space sci-fi adventure about a malevolent race of aliens seeking to propagate their violent ways by sparking an intergalactic war. It's been eons since the dreaded Kluduthu race succeeded in starting the war that would help their race to thrive, and now Read More

Kalamazoo?

Actors: Mayim Bialik, Josie Davis, Joanna Clare Scott, Claire Bloom, Chita Rivera

Synopsis: A trio of lifelong friends returns to their hometown of Kalamazoo, MI, for their ten-year high-school reunion, only to discover that their graduation time capsule contains embarrassingly unmet goals for all of them in director David P. O'Malley's affectionate comedy. For Carol Cavanaugh (Josie Davis Read More

Masters of Horror: The Damned Thing

Actors: Sean Patrick Flanery, Marisa Coughlan, Ted Raimi

Synopsis: A small Texas town is terrorized by an unidentified monstrous force in this installment of Showtime's Masters of Horror series adapted from an Ambrose Bierce story by writer Richard Christian Matheson, and directed by Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre). Sheriff Kevin Reddle (Sean Patrick Flanery Read More

Man With the Screaming Brain

Actors: Stacy Keach, Ted Raimi, Bruce Campbell

Synopsis: A wealthy industrialist in search of a tax break finds himself at the mercy of a deranged scientist in this surreal comic thriller from Evil Dead star Bruce Campbell. While his overwhelming greed and hawkish business sensibilities have helped to ensure pharmaceutical CEO William Cole (Campbell) a Read More

The Grudge

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

Spider-Man 2

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

Illusion

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Michael A. Goorjian, Karen Tucker, Ron Marasco, Richmond Arquette

Synopsis: Director Michael A. Goorjian's Illusion tells the tale of a dying film director who, after leading a lavish life of fame and fortune, finds out too little too late what it truly means to live and be loved. Mr. Baines (Kirk Douglas) is a Hollywood icon who has agreed to grant one final interview Read More

Spider-Man

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

Xena: Warrior Princess - When Fates Collide

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Karl Urban, Claire Stansfield

Synopsis: Escaping from Hades, Julius Caesar (Karl Urban) waylays the Three Fates so that he may alter the Threads of Destiny. As a result, the events leading up to Caesar's death are radically altered, and apparently for the good. Xena (Lucy Lawless) is now Caesar's empress, and Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Soul Possession

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Kevin Smith

Synopsis: In the Present, a scuba diver recovers an ancient scroll and presents it to the Center for the Historical Accuracy of Key Research in Ancient Mythology (or CHAKRAM for short). Much to the shock and awe of two fervent Xena: Warrior Princess fans, the scroll proves beyond a doubt that Xena (Lucy Lawless Read More

The Attic Expeditions

Actors: Andras Jones, Seth Green, Jeffrey Combs, Wendy Robie, Ted Raimi

Synopsis: A disturbed young man discovers his problems are all in his head, but isn't sure just how they got there in this tale of terror. Trevor (Andras Jones) is a young man who has been sentenced to a long stay in a mental hospital after brutally killing his girlfriend. However, the longer Trevor is in Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Married with Fishsticks

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

Synopsis: Knocked unconscious while swimming, Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) awakens to find herself in a watery world populated by mermen and mermaids. She herself has grown fins in place of her legs, and has now assumed the identity of Crustacea, the wife of merman Hagar (Ted Raimi) and the mother of three Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Kindred Spirits

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Shelley Edwards, Morgan Reese Fairhead

Synopsis: Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) is faced with a momentous decision: She can either leave the Amazon village and embark on future adventures with Xena (Lucy Lawless) and baby Eve, or she can stay behind and reign as the Amazon Queen. Jealously coveting the queendom herself, scheming Amazon Cyane (Shelley Edwards Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Eternal Bonds

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Kevin Smith, Ted Raimi, Natalie Duggan

Synopsis: The birth of Xena's baby, Eve, is greeted with a strangely familiar series of rituals, including gifts from a trio of Magi. Meanwhile, the Olympian Gods, determined that the baby will not fulfill the prophecy that will bring about their doom (and angered over the reason demise of Zeus), set about Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Lyre, Lyre, Hearts on Fire

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Gillian Iliana Waters

Synopsis: In the second of the series' musical episodes, Xena (Lucy Lawless) tries to negotiate a truce between the Amazons and the warlord Draco (Jay Lagai'aia). To that end, she proposes a Battle of the Bands, with songs rather than swords used to determine the outcome. Meanwhile, Xena's mom, Cyrene (Darien Takle Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Punch Lines

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Alexandra Rydings, Jon Gadsby

Synopsis: During a bout of writer's block, Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) tells Aphrodite (Alexandra Tydings) about her "little" adventure. Specifically, she recalls how she and her horse Argo were shrunken to bite-size by the depressed -- and very short -- Lachrymose (Jon Gadsby), the God of Despair. Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Eve

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Kevin Smith, Adrienne Wilkinson

Synopsis: Having discovered that the much-feared warrior princess Livia (Adrienne Wilkinson) is actually her own daughter, Eve, Xena (Lucy Lawless) embarks upon a search for the girl, following the path of destruction left in Eve's wake. Meanwhile, war god Ares (Kevin Smith), who has already promised to Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Motherhood

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

Synopsis: Xena (Lucy Lawless) squares off against the Olympian gods in a battle to the death, with the survival of both sides in the balance. At the same time, Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) swears to avenge the death of Joxer (Ted Raimi) at the hands of Xena's daughter, Eve, and never mind that Eve has cast Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Livia

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

Synopsis: Thawed out from the block of ice that has imprisoned them for 25 years, Xena (Lucy Lawless) and Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) embark upon a search for Xena's daughter, Eve. Alas, the world that Xena and Gabrielle once knew has changed, and not for the better. For one thing, the land is in the thrall Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Looking Death in the Eye

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Kevin Smith, Ted Raimi, Paris Jefferson

Synopsis: It is has been 25 years since Xena (Lucy Lawless), her daughter, Eve, and her companion, Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor), disappeared from the face of the earth. Since that time, the ladies' friend Joxer (Ted Raimi) has regaled his children and grandchildren with stories of Xena's adventures -- and of Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Déjà Vu All Over Again

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

Synopsis: Forsaking the series' standard historical trappings, this episode takes place in 1999 A.D. A woman named Annie (Lucy Lawless), whose favorite TV series is (what else?) Xena: Warrior Princess, becomes convinced that she is herself reincarnated from Xena (who, need we add, is also played by Lucy Lawless Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Fallen Angel

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, David de Latour, Jennifer Sky, Hudson Leick

Synopsis: Season five of Xena: Warrior Princess begins on a bleak note, inasmuch as both the titular Xena (Lucy Lawless) and her traveling companion, Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor), had been crucified by the Romans at the end of season four -- thereby fulfilling the prophecy of the evil shamaness Alti. As Xena Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - The Convert

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Kathryn Morris, Mfundo Morrison

Synopsis: Najara (Kathryn Morris), the homicidal religious zealot with whom Xena (Lucy Lawless) tussled in the earlier episode "Crusader," is back with a new look -- and a new message. Insisting that she has forsaken her past strong-arm methods, Najara declares that she is now devoted to a mantra of Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Takes One to Know One

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Bruce Campbell, Ted Raimi, Meighan Desmond

Synopsis: Xena (Lucy Lawless) and her friends throw a surprise birthday party for Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) at the tavern owned by Xena's mom (Darien Takle). But the festivities take a sinister turn when a bounty hunter who is searching for Xena turns up murdered. Discord (Meighan Desmond), goddess of Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Chakram

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Jennifer Sky, Kevin Smith, Ted Raimi

Synopsis: The messianic shaman Eli (Timothy Omundson) has successfully brought back Xena (Lucy Lawless) and Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) from the dead. But while Gabby seems none the worse for wear, the amnesiac Xena has returned with an entirely different personality; for one thing, she is far more concerned Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Back in the Bottle

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

Synopsis: Still in the faraway land of Chin, Xena (Lucy Lawless) struggles to master the beneficial powers of her late spiritual mentor, Lao Ma. Meanwhile, the despotic warlord Khan and his 100,000 warriors prepare to conquer the land. In her efforts to stop Khan, Xena finds out that her enemy has an unfair Read More

Blowin' Smoke

Actors: Josh Hamilton, Steve Zahn, Heather McComb, Arabella Field, David Kinney

Synopsis: So what do you do when your best friend is a brain-fried stoner named Freak who still lives with his parents -- and his life is making more progress than your own? That's the dilemma facing Dave (Josh Hamilton), who decided several years ago to get out of Syracuse, New York and make a new life for Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Animal Attraction

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Jennifer Sky, Ted Raimi, Mfundo Morrison

Synopsis: Relaxing from previous skirmishes in the town of Spamona, Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) finds times to train a new mare, Amarice (Jennifer Sky) falls in love with Joxer's new friend Arman (Mfundo Morrison), and Joxer (Ted Raimi) begins getting sentimental over Gabrielle. But there's no rest for Xena (Lucy Lawless Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Purity

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

Synopsis: Summoned to the faraway land of Chin, Xena (Lucy Lawless) is met by Pao Ssu (Marie Matiko), who is anxious to protect the Book of Wisdom handed down by her mother (and Xena's spiritual mentor), Lao Ma. It soon develops that Pao Ssu is evil personified, intending to use both the book and a Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - The Play's the Thing

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Peter Muller, Ted Raimi

Synopsis: Upon returning from India with her friend Xena (Lucy Lawless), Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) is accosted by Zehra (Jennifer Ward-Leland), "Queen of the Cons." In league with another sharpster named Milo (Mark Hadlow), Zehra persuades Gabrielle to write a play about Xena's exploits, to be given a Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - The Key to the Kingdom

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

Synopsis: Meg, the lusty lookalike of Warrior Princess Xena (both characters are, of course, played by Lucy Lawless), joins forces with Joxer (Ted Raimi) and Autolycus (Bruce Campbell) to steal a valuable item from under the noses of two corrupt regents. That item is the "key" that is said to lead to the Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 05

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

Xena: Warrior Princess - If the Shoe Fits...

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Alexandra Tydings, Christopher Ryan

Synopsis: In this light-hearted episode, runaway Princess Alecia (Olivia Tennet) refuses to return home to her father and stepmother. Since Alecia's stubbornness may have disastrous consequences, it is up to Xena (Lucy Lawless), Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor), and Joxer (Ted Raimi) to win the little girl over Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Daughter of Pomira

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Beth Allen, Craig Ancill

Synopsis: In this Xena variation on the John Ford epic The Searchers, Xena (Lucy Lawless) tries to make up for a past mistake by rescuing a girl named Vanesa (Beth Allen), kidnapped in infancy by the Horde. But Vanesa, who now calls herself Pilee, doesn't want to be rescued. Meanwhile, Xena and Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - The Bitter Suite

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

Synopsis: Now that Gabrielle's unholy daughter, Hope, has killed Xena's son, Solan, an action that also cost Hope her life, Xena (Lucy Lawless) and Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) are bitter enemies. But before they can act upon their mutual hatred, the two former comrades are transported to Illsuia, a dream Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - The Quill Is Mightier...

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Alexandra Tydings, Kevin Smith

Synopsis: Though flattered by Gabrielle's (Renee O'Connor) ongoing efforts to chronicle her exploits for posterity, Xena (Lucy Lawless) suggests that her friend forsake facts for the moment and turn to fiction writing. Unfortunately, this occurs just when the jealous Aphrodite (Alexandra Tydings), angered Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Warrior...Priestess...Tramp

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

Synopsis: This episode introduces yet another in a long line of Xena lookalikes: Leah, the high priestess of the Hestian Virgins (a role played, of course, by Lucy Lawless). When Leah is threatened with death, bordello operator Meg (who also is the spitting image of Xena, and is also enacted by Lucy Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Yes, Virginia, There is a Hercules

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst, Kevin Smith, Hudson Leick, Ted Raimi

Synopsis: In present-day Hollywood, the staff of Renaissance Productions, the people responsible for the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, are in a panic. An earthquake has struck Tinseltown, and the series' titular star, Kevin Sorbo, is missing. In order to save their jobs, the series' producers Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 04

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

Xena: Warrior Princess - In Sickness and in Hell

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Campbell Cooley, Timothy Lee

Synopsis: Though suffering from itchy fungi, lice, and other infestations, Xena (Lucy Lawless) and Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) are determined to aid Joxer (Ted Raimi) in his battle against the Scythian hordes. There is, of course, more than Joxer at stake: the scurrilous Scythians have captured Xena's noble Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Sacrifice, Part 2

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

Synopsis: In the concluding episode of Xena: Warrior Princess' third-season finale, Gabrielle's evil-incarnate daughter, Hope, has been reborn -- in the form of Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) herself. Hope then conspires with Ares (Kevin Smith) to create a race of superbeings to take over the world. It is up to Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - A Family Affair

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

Synopsis: Still searching for their supposedly deceased friend Gabrielle, Xena (Lucy Lawless) and Joker (Ted Raimi) show up in Gabby's home village of Potidea. Xena's joy is unbounded when she thinks she sees Gabrielle, alive and well. But alas, it is only an illusion: Gabrielle's evil daughter, Hope, has Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Forget Me Not

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Kevin Smith, Jan Hellriegel

Synopsis: Melancholy Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) tries to get over the death of her daughter, Hope, among other recent traumatic experiences, by telepathically visiting the temple of Mnesoyne, Goddess of Memory. As Joxer (Ted Raimi) stands guard over Gabrielle's body, Gabrielle's mind embarks upon a journey Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - King Con

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Patrick Fabian, Cameron Rhodes

Synopsis: It's The Sting, warrior-princess style, when Xena (Lucy Lawless) teams up with a pair of slick con artists. The reason? Xena's friend Joxer (Ted Raimi) has been cheated out of a huge sum of money by the father-son owners of a gambling house -- and has been beaten to a pulp for good measure. Now it Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Fins, Femmes and Gems

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Alexandra Tydings, Lawrence Makoare

Synopsis: Xena (Lucy Lawless), Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor), and Joxer (Ted Raimi) set out to recover the mystic diamond that provides illumination for the North Star. To prevent this from happening, Aphrodite (Alexandra Tydings), currently and illegally in possession of the diamond, casts a series of Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - When a Man Loves a Woman

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst, Sam Jenkins, Ted Raimi, Kevin Smith

Synopsis: In the second episode of a three-part story, Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) asks the beautiful demigod Serena (Sam Jenkins) to marry him. But before the couple can tie the knot, Hercules must first journey into the Other World to get the blessing of his late wife Deianeira (Tawny Kitaen). Also Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Stranger in a Strange World

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst, Lucy Lawless

Synopsis: Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) and Iolaus (Michael Hurst) plunge into a parallel dimension reminiscent of a certain modern superhero's "bizarro" world. In this strange land, Hercules is a despotic ruler named "The Sovereign" (also played by Kevin Sorbo); the brave Iolaus is a weak-kneed court jester; Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - The Xena Scrolls

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

Synopsis: This episode is set in Macedonia in the year A.D. 1942. Archeologist Janice Covington (Renee O'Connor), who bears a startling resemblance to our old, old friend Gabrielle, is searching for the legendary Xena Scrolls, a fragment of which was unearthed by her father years earlier. Several other Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - For Him The Bell Tolls

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