
Sam Raimi, a director known for his playful style, creative mixing of genres, and dynamic camera work, started his career with the cult classic The Evil Dead and refined his approach with Evil Dead II. Despite being well-regarded, he remained a somewhat obscure genre filmmaker until he directed the blockbuster Spider-Man trilogy. While hugely successful, those films proved difficult to move beyond. After a couple of smaller projects, Raimi didn’t direct a feature for almost ten years, until another superhero opportunity arose in 2022. His latest film, Send Help, is a return to the low-budget, inventive filmmaking that defined his early work, and it’s a great chance to look back at his entire filmography of sixteen movies.