Directing

Sam Raimi

Born October 23, 1959 · Royal Oak, Michigan, USA (age 66)

Samuel Marshall Raimi (/ˈreɪmi/ RAY-mee; born October 23, 1959) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for writing and directing the Evil Dead trilogy (1981–1992) and directing the Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007). He also directed Darkman (1990), The Quick and the Dead (1995), A Simple Plan (1998), The Gift (2000), Drag Me to Hell (2009), Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), and Doctor Strange in …

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Evil Dead Burn

Evil Dead Burn · 2026

After her husband's abrupt death, Alice seeks solace with his remaining family — descendants of a leading researcher on demonic possession. As her in-laws transform one by one into creatures that feed on fear, she comes to discover that the vows she took in life survive even in death.

Spider-Man

Spider-Man · 2002

MovieActionScience Fiction

After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.

Spider-Man 3

Spider-Man 3 · 2007

MovieActionAdventure

The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers are altered by an alien organism, his alter ego, Peter Parker, deals with nemesis Eddie Brock and also gets caught up in a love triangle.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · 2022

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

MovieFantasyAction

Doctor Strange, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary.

Send Help

Send Help · 2026

MovieHorrorThriller

Two colleagues become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. On the island, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it's a battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.

Spider-Man 2

Spider-Man 2 · 2004

MovieActionAdventure

Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still can't act on his feelings for Mary Jane Watson, a girl he's loved since childhood. A certain anger begins to brew in his best friend Harry Osborn as well...

Evil Dead Rise

Evil Dead Rise · 2023

MovieHorrorThriller

A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

The Evil Dead

The Evil Dead · 1982

In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.

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Evil Dead Burn

Evil Dead Burn · 2026

After her husband's abrupt death, Alice seeks solace with his remaining family — descendants of a leading researcher on demonic possession. As her in-laws transform one by one into creatures that feed on fear, she comes to discover that the vows she took in life survive even in death.

Original Film Writer

Spider-Man

Spider-Man · 2002

MovieActionScience Fiction

After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.

Director

Spider-Man 3

Spider-Man 3 · 2007

MovieActionAdventure

The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers are altered by an alien organism, his alter ego, Peter Parker, deals with nemesis Eddie Brock and also gets caught up in a love triangle.

Director

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · 2022

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

MovieFantasyAction

Doctor Strange, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary.

Director

Send Help

Send Help · 2026

MovieHorrorThriller

Two colleagues become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. On the island, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it's a battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.

Director

Spider-Man 2

Spider-Man 2 · 2004

MovieActionAdventure

Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still can't act on his feelings for Mary Jane Watson, a girl he's loved since childhood. A certain anger begins to brew in his best friend Harry Osborn as well...

Director

Evil Dead Rise

Evil Dead Rise · 2023

MovieHorrorThriller

A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

Characters

The Evil Dead

The Evil Dead · 1982

In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.

Writer

Evil Dead

Evil Dead · 2013

Mia, a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David, his girlfriend, Natalie and their friends Olivia and Eric to accompany her to their family's remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal. Eric finds a mysterious Book of the Dead at the cabin and reads aloud from it, awakening an ancient demon. All hell breaks loose when the malevolent entity possesses Mia.

Producer

The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book · 2016

The Jungle Book

MovieAdventureFamily

After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli, a man-cub fostered by wolves, is forced to flee the jungle, and he embarks on a journey of self-discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera, and the free-spirited bear, Baloo.

Giant Squirrel (voice)

Army of Darkness

Army of Darkness · 1992

Army of Darkness

MovieFantasyHorror

Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead.

Writer

Oz the Great and Powerful

Oz the Great and Powerful · 2013

Oz the Great and Powerful

MovieFantasyAdventure

Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.

Director

MovieActionAdventure

65 million years ago, the only 2 survivors of a spaceship from Somaris that crash-landed on Earth, must fend off dinosaurs to reach the escape vessel in time before an imminent asteroid strike threatens to destroy the planet.

Producer

Don't Breathe

Don't Breathe · 2016

MovieHorrorThriller

A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.

Producer

The Quick and the Dead

The Quick and the Dead · 1995

The Quick and the Dead

MovieWesternAction

A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.

Director

Evil Dead II

Evil Dead II · 1987

MovieHorrorComedy

Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from "The Book of the Dead." As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda's body.

Director

30 Days of Night

30 Days of Night · 2007

30 Days of Night

MovieHorrorThriller

This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.

Producer

Hard Target

Hard Target · 1993

MovieActionThriller

When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.

Executive Producer

The Flintstones

The Flintstones · 1994

The Flintstones

MovieFantasyComedy

Modern Stone Age family the Flintstones hit the big screen in this live-action version of the classic cartoon. Fred helps Barney adopt a child. Barney sees an opportunity to repay him when Slate Mining tests its employees to find a new executive. But no good deed goes unpunished.

Cliff Look-A-Like

The Dead Don't Die

The Dead Don't Die · 2019

The Dead Don't Die

MovieComedyDrama

In the sleepy town of Centerville, the lives of a number of interconnected characters are disrupted by the undead.

Thanks

Crawl

MovieHorrorThriller

When a huge hurricane hits her hometown in Florida, Haley ignores evacuation orders to look for her father. After finding him badly wounded, both are trapped by the flood. With virtually no time to escape the storm, they discover that rising water levels are the least of their problems.

Producer

Drag Me to Hell

Drag Me to Hell · 2009

Drag Me to Hell

MovieHorrorThriller

After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is skeptical. Her only hope seems to lie in a psychic who claims he can help her lift the curse and keep her soul from being dragged straight to hell.

Director

Poltergeist

Poltergeist · 2015

A family's suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.

Producer

The Gift

The Gift · 2000

MovieHorrorDrama

Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures⁠—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by a client's violent husband and plagued by visions of a missing local woman, Annie finds herself pulled into a thicket of lies and deception in which her extraordinary gift may ultimately get her killed.

Director

Spartacus

Spartacus · 2010

Torn from his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus is condemned to the brutal world of the arena where blood and death are primetime entertainment.

Executive Producer

Xena: Warrior Princess

Xena: Warrior Princess · 1995

Xena: Warrior Princess

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

Xena is an infamous warrior on a quest to seek redemption for her past sins against the innocent. Accompanied by her comrade-in-arms Gabrielle, the campy couple use their formidable fighting skills to help those who are unable to defend themselves.

Producer

Ash vs Evil Dead

Ash vs Evil Dead · 2015

Ash vs Evil Dead

SeriesComedyAction & Adventure

Bruce Campbell reprises his role as Ash Williams, an aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who’s spent the last three decades avoiding maturity, and the terrors of the Evil Dead. But when a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, he’s forced to face his demons — both metaphorical and literal.

Writer

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys · 1995

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

The legendary son of Zeus journeys across the earth fighting monsters and helping people.

Producer

Legend of the Seeker

Legend of the Seeker · 2008

Legend of the Seeker

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure

The adventures of woodsman Richard Cypher, who discovers that he was born to fulfill a prophecy of becoming a guardian hero to oppressed people. With the help of a mysterious woman named Kahlan and a wise old wizard named Zedd, he must stop a ruthless and bloodthirsty tyrant from unleashing an ancient evil and enslaving the world.

Producer

The Stand

The Stand · 1994

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

After a deadly plague kills most of the world’s population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a maleficent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil.

Bobby Terry

50 States of Fright

50 States of Fright · 2020

50 States of Fright

SeriesDramaCrime

A horror anthology series based on urban legends that takes viewers deeper into the horrors that lurk just beneath the surface of America.

Executive Producer

Young Hercules

Young Hercules · 1998

SeriesAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

The adventures of the ancient hero in his youth.

Executive Producer

The Shining

The Shining · 1997

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

A new caretaker moves with his family into the mysterious Overlook Hotel for the winter.

Gas Station Howie

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

M.A.N.T.I.S. · 1994

SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy

M.A.N.T.I.S. is an American science fiction television series that aired for one season on the Fox Network between August 1994 and March 1995. The original two-hour pilot was produced by Sam Raimi and developed by Sam Hamm. It stars actor Carl Lumbly. The show is unique in that it depicts an African-American superhero.

Creator

American Gothic

American Gothic · 1995

American Gothic

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Everything is not what it seems in Trinity, South Carolina. Sheriff Lucas Buck develops a sinister interest in Caleb. Caleb's cousin Gail tries to protect him, but that's complicated since she has feelings for Sheriff Buck. And Caleb's dead sister, Merlyn, returns as an angel, warning him that Buck is an incarnation of evil - and may not be human.

Producer

Jack of All Trades

Jack of All Trades · 2000

Jack of All Trades

SeriesAction & AdventureComedy

American spy Jack Stiles teams with British agent Emilia Rothschild to thwart Napoleon's advances in the East Indies.

Producer

Cleopatra 2525

Cleopatra 2525 · 2000

SeriesAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

An exotic dancer is frozen in 2001 and unfrozen in 2525 by two female warriors fighting against robots that have taken over the world. The three join forces and try to escape from the underground caves to which humanity has been banished.

Producer

Rake

SeriesDramaComedy

Keegan Deane's staggering lack of discretion and inability to self-censor land him the law cases that nobody else will touch. He always tries to do the right thing, but at the same time struggles to save himself from the many self-destructive elements that plague his own life, including women and gambling.

Director

Spy Game

Spy Game · 1997

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

Spy Game is a short-lived American action-adventure television series that aired on the ABC network for 13 episodes during the spring and summer of 1997. The series was created by screenwriter and physician Ivan Raimi, director Sam Raimi, and writer John McNamara.

Executive Producer

Zombie Roadkill

Zombie Roadkill · 2010

Zombie Roadkill

A group of college kids driving on an unfamiliar winding road through a national park accidentally run over an unsuspecting squirrel. They quickly discover that this is no ordinary road—the woods are alive with the undead, animals reanimated as vengeful, murderous zombies!

Executive Producer