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Directions Unit: Connor Winfield directs Sam Raimi

      Trademark techniques

He inherited a love for filmmaking from his father, a furniture and appliance store owner

He created his first film at the age of 11, and two years later, he had his own 8 mm camera to use on his own projects.

Raimi, along with his friend Bruce Campbell, later studied filmmaking with Vern Nobles who made industrial films

In 1977, Raimi enrolled at Michigan State University.

He formed Renaissance Pictures with his friends Bruce Campbell and Robert Tapert. To raise money, he and his partners met with local doctors, lawyers, and other professionals in the Detroit area.


For The Evil Dead, Raimi and partners had trouble finding a distributor, but eventually had the film released in Europe

Main Directing Credits

The Evil Dead (1981)
Spider-man 1,2,3 (2002,2004,2007)







Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)









Trademark Techniques

In several of his films, Raimi has a voice-over from a principle character at the end of his films, such as in all the Spider-man films and Army of Darkness

He usually wears a jacket and tie in a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock

While filming, he humorously "abuses" actors by doing things like hitting them with tree branches to simulate getting hit with debris or throwing popcorn at them.

He is a big fan of the ‘whip pan’

Shot from original scene


The Evil Dead (1981)
Spider-man,2,3 (2002,2004,2007)
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

The Evil Dead (1981)
Spider-man,2,3 (2002,2004,2007)
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

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