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Sam Raimi

Biography:
Samuel Marshall Raimi was born in Royal Oak, Michigan on October 23^rd, 1959.  His youth was filled with a blissful combination of television, comic books, and baseball.  In his early teens Raimi developed a fascination with his family’s home video camera and it wasn’t long before he had saved up enough money to buy his own. 

Along with his older brother Ivan, his younger brother Ted, and neighborhood friends like Josh Becker, Scott Spiegel, and Bruce Campbell, Raimi would produce dozens of backyard films throughout his middle and high school years.  With titles like “Shemp Eats the Moon” and “Three Pests in a Mess”, the majority of these early efforts were similar in tone and theme to his beloved comedy team, The Three Stooges.  Raimi graduated from Wiley E. Groves High School in 1977 and promptly shipped off to Michigan State University where he and Ivan would start the campus “Creative Filmmaking Society”. 

They would find their first success with “The Happy Valley Kid” which starred Ivan’s roommate, a business major named Robert G. Tapert.  After reuniting with Campbell, the group produced their first feature length project, It’s Murder!  Though less successful on the financial end, It’s Murder! got Raimi and company seriously considering an attempt at professional filmmaking.  That attempt would come in the form of -- [BEGIThe Evil Dead. EGIN POS

Horror was not a genre that the troop was familiar with, so they practiced with two short films; “Clockwork” and “Within the Woods”.  When they finally felt ready, they raised the capital and headed down to Morristown,Tennessee to shoot their picture.  After a grueling shoot and a lengthy post-production, the film was picked up by the fledgling distribution company New Line Cinema. 

The Evil Dead