Evil Dead II (1987)

After witnessing Army of Darkness, I somehow discovered it was a sequel to The Evil Dead. In the loads of taped-from-movie-channels tapes that occupied my childhood home, I found the original movie. Two attempts to get through it were aborted–not because it was bad, but because I was very emotionally vulnerable to horror in my […]

Army of Darkness (1993)

One of those weird things I’ll never forget: it was Starz!, back in 1993 or 1994 when I first saw this–and then taped it during another showing. I’d never seen The Evil Dead, nor Evil Dead 2, but the effects I caught wind of intrigued me. It became an instant favourite, one I shared with […]

Drag Me to Hell (2009)

I remember when this came out thinking that I’d lost track of Raimi and wasn’t too excited about the whole thing. A lot of modern horror from big studios was going in directions I didn’t enjoy, and because my love of Raimi peaked with Evil Dead 2 and not Army of Darkness, I was wary […]

Crimewave (1985)

I’ll probably never know what the hell it was. It was a television show that talked about Sam Raimi’s movies, after I’d seen Army of Darkness, and there was some movie in there I didn’t know about. I’ve become convinced it was one of two: Crimewave, or Intruder. Sam stars in the latter and directs the former. I […]

Darkman (1990)

When I was around five to, I don’t know, perhaps ten or twelve years old, I dug through all of my father’s videos, through Leonard Maltin’s film guide and watched eagerly for anything with superheroes. I lived for Tim Burton’s Batman, watched John Wesley Shipp as The Flash religiously (or as much as I could […]

A Simple Plan (1998)

Offhand, I’d say this is the only “normal” Sam Raimi movie that ever interested me. I’ve notoriously had an affection for the man’s work since first seeing Army of Darkness about twelve or thirteen years ago, and even more so after moving into its prequels in subsequent years (Evil Dead was the last film to […]