THE FILMS OF SAM RAIMI – A FILM BUFF RESTROSPECTIVE

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Overview of the Series and Focus

• The series is a recurring Wednesday evening discussion dedicated to exploring the individuals behind beloved films, including directors, writers, producers, and creators.
• The focus varies across the filmmaking spectrum, emphasizing filmographies to better understand a creator’s body of work.
• While directors have mostly been the subject, future episodes will include other film craftspeople (e.g., special effects artists, screenwriters like John Logan).
• The host uses this format to validate personal opinions about films and filmmakers by examining their complete works and career trajectories.

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Introduction to Sam Raimi’s Career and Evolution

• Sam Raimi is presented as a director who has improved consistently over time and learned to navigate Hollywood’s complex mechanisms of expression, production, distribution, and marketing.
• His career is described as moving through three distinct phases of filmmaking.
• Early works are often overlooked or forgotten despite their significance in his oeuvre.

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Early Career and Notable Films (1978-1987)

• “Murder!” (1978): Raimi’s debut as a writer, director, and producer; a crime mystery film that is rarely discussed. It represents his entry into the student and festival circuits, which were critical for independent filmmakers in the 1970s and 80s.
• Film festivals in the U.S. became pivotal platforms for filmmakers to showcase their work and catch the attention of distributors, essential for career progression during this period.
• “The Evil Dead” (1981): Raimi’s breakout low-budget horror film. Despite modest budgets, it became a massive cultural phenomenon with extensive merchandising (statues, t-shirts still sold commercially).
• “Crime Wave” (1985) is another early Raimi film, often ignored despite its quality.
• “Evil Dead 2” (1987) is highly regarded, notable for its creative style and as a quasi-remake of the original, following a trend of sequels that reimagine their predecessors (similar to works by Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron).

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Reception and Personal Perspective on Evil Dead Series

• The Evil Dead movies are acknowledged as well-made, artful works, but the host personally admits they never fully “clicked” for him, comparing this to other genre or franchise disconnects (e.g., Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel).
• The trilogy is praised for its innovative approach to action-horror and character development, especially the Ash character.
• The franchise expanded into television with “Ash vs Evil Dead” (2015-2018, 3 seasons), and the recent films “Evil Dead” (2013 reboot) and “Evil Dead Rise” (2023) continue the legacy.

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Other Early and Mid-Career Highlights (1989-1998)

• “Easy Wheels” (1989): A film written by Raimi that remains largely unrecognized.
• “Darkman” (1990): Considered Raimi’s first great movie; a modern superhero film starring Liam Neeson. Budget: approximately $$14\text{ million}$$, box office: $$50\text{ million}$$.
• Notable collaborators include composer Danny Elfman and actress Francis McDormand (who did not marry Raimi, but Joel Coen).
• The film spawned two sequels: “Darkman 2: The Return of Durant” and “Darkman 3: Die, Darkman, Die” but never gained widespread traction beyond cult status.
• “The Nuthouse” (1992): Another overlooked film written by Raimi.
• The final entry in the Evil Dead trilogy, “Army of Darkness” (1992), is recognized as part of a cohesive trilogy, blending horror and action elements.

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Expansion into TV and Franchise Continuations

• The Evil Dead franchise was revitalized through the TV series “Ash vs Evil Dead” (2015-2018), which ran three seasons as a direct sequel to the original trilogy.
• The host notes Army of Darkness and the Evil Dead trilogy as emblematic examples of Raimi’s singular vision and creative consistency.

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Raimi’s Work in the 1990s and Early 2000s

• Raimi wrote “The Hudsucker Proxy” (1994), directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, considered a masterpiece with actors like Tim Robbins and Paul Newman.
• His best-directed film of the 1990s is “The Quick and the Dead” (1995) featuring Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, and Leonardo DiCaprio. The film is praised for its brutal character portrayals and dynamic gun duel sequences.
• “A Simple Plan” (1998) is highlighted as Raimi’s best movie of the decade, an underappreciated thriller starring Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton.
• “For Love of the Game” (1999), a Kevin Costner baseball film, is noted as highly underrated and part of Costner’s baseball trilogy alongside Field of Dreams and Bull Durham.

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Early 2000s Films and Spider-Man Breakthrough

• Films like “The Gift” (2000) and “The Missing” (2003) (both with Cate Blanchett) are acknowledged but less celebrated in Raimi’s filmography.
• Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy (2002-2007) is described as his crowning achievement:
• “Spider-Man” (2002) is labeled a perfect superhero origin movie and Hollywood template, praised for casting, adaptation, and execution.
• “Spider-Man 2” (2004) is called his greatest directed work, with episodes planned to explore this and the third film in detail. The only criticism is repetitive identity reveals late in the film.
• “Spider-Man 3” (2007) is a complex film balancing two big ideas: Raimi’s Sandman story and the studio-driven Venom storyline. It contains impressive set pieces but suffers from thematic division.

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Later Career and Mixed Reception

• “Drag Me to Hell” (2009) is described as a paranormal stalker horror shot mostly in daylight, with some effective scenes (e.g., ominous footsteps). However, the host found the ending hollow and emotionally unsatisfying, though acknowledges it has merits.
• “Oz the Great and Powerful” (2013) is highly praised as an underrated quest film that complements the MGM musical and Disney’s Return to Oz to form an unofficial Oz trilogy.
• Raimi took a break from directing between 2013 and 2020, during which he was heavily involved in TV and production work.

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Recent Work and Marvel Cinematic Universe

• “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” (2022) is seen as a solid, fun sequel within the MCU, even though it prompted some controversy.
• The character Americo Chavez introduced in the film remains unused elsewhere in the MCU, which the host finds puzzling.
• Despite mixed fan reactions and a long hiatus, Raimi’s return with this film reflects his continued relevance in mainstream cinema.

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Latest Film and Career Longevity

• “Send Help” (year not specified) is regarded by the host as Raimi’s best film to date, emphasizing Raimi’s nearly 50-year career marked by repeated peaks where he delivers his greatest work.
• The host expresses renewed admiration for Raimi, motivated by this recent viewing to revisit earlier overlooked films.

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Raimi’s Role as Producer and Television Work

• Raimi has produced or executive produced numerous films, often in the horror and thriller genres, including:
• Timecop (1994) – underrated action film
• The Grudge franchise (2004, 2006, 2020) – part of a horror trilogy
• The Boogeyman (2005), The Messengers, 30 Days of Night series
• Evil Dead (2013 reboot) – one of the greatest reboots in horror
• Don’t Breathe (2016) and its sequel
• Poltergeist (2015 remake)
• Crawl (2019)
• The Unholy (2021)
• Uma (year not specified) – sci-fi, described as misunderstood but loved by the host
• Boy Kills World – another favored film
• Raimi is involved with upcoming projects including Evil Dead: Locked (2025) and Evil Dead: Wrath (2026), indicating the franchise’s ongoing generational appeal.

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Summary of Raimi’s Filmography and Awards

• Raimi’s career spans from short films in 1972 to mainstream blockbusters and TV projects in 2017 and beyond.
• He has received some awards, such as Best Director at Sigrist Fest for Darkman, but lacks major mainstream awards, likely due to the genre and style of his films.
• As an actor, writer, director, and editor, Raimi is deeply involved in many of his projects, especially the Evil Dead series.

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Television Contributions

• Creator and executive producer roles include:
• M.A.N.T.I.S. (Fox, one season)
• Xena: Warrior Princess (executive producer and developer)
• Spy Game
• The Legend of the Seeker
• Rake
• Evil Dead and Ash TV series (writer, director, producer, editor)
• 50 States of Fright (2022), a horror anthology series with three episodes
• Raimi maintained a steady output in television during his directing hiatus.

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Closing Remarks and Legacy

• Raimi is also credited as executive producer on “Hard Target” (1993) directed by John Woo, described as a wild and underrated action film.
• The host expresses personal affection for Raimi’s work, motivated by his recent positive experience with Send Help, and plans to re-engage with several lesser-discussed films.
• Raimi is recognized as a filmmaker with an impressively long, diverse, and influential career, spanning multiple genres, mediums, and decades.

Summary Table: Selected Key Films by Sam Raimi

Key Insights

• Sam Raimi’s career demonstrates remarkable longevity and adaptability, evolving from low-budget horror films to major studio blockbusters and television production.
• His work is often underrated beyond the Evil Dead and Spider-Man franchises, with many early and mid-career films neglected in popular discourse.
• Raimi’s ability to blend genres (horror, action, superhero, fantasy) and maintain a consistent creative vision is a defining characteristic.
• Despite varying critical reception, Raimi has created multiple successful trilogies and franchises, contributing extensively to modern genre filmmaking.
• His producer and executive producer roles underscore his influence behind the scenes in horror and thriller genres.
• The host’s personal reflections reveal that appreciation of Raimi’s work can be subjective, with some films resonating more than others depending on individual tastes.

Conclusion

Sam Raimi stands as a versatile and enduring filmmaker whose contributions span nearly five decades. From student film circuits to Hollywood blockbusters and television series, his filmography is marked by intense creativity, genre innovation, and cultural impact. While some works remain obscure or divisive, Raimi’s influence—particularly through the Evil Dead and Spider-Man franchises—cements his legacy as a significant figure in contemporary cinema.

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Let me bring you up to speed with what happens here Wednesday evenings. We talk about the individuals that bring us the films that we love.

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We do filmographies. Now, it doesn’t have to be, in tonight’s case, it’s a filmmaker, it’s a director. But, you know, he’s also a writer, producer, creator. But we do the spectrum. And I know I’ve been a little bit on the run of just focusing on directors. We will be doing special effects guys, like John Logan, for example, screenwriter. This supplements a little bit of my obsession when it comes to film discussion.

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And I feel it validates some of my opinions when I say things about… Like, just for example, like War Horse being Steven Spielberg’s most god-awful movie. And you might be like, well, has he seen them all? Well, there’s going to be… Right? We have an episode that talks about me and my experiences and what I feel about every single one of Steven Spielberg’s movies. So it’s a little bit of a pre-argument framing. And I feel…

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There’s going to be some pushback. There’s going to be a little bit of anger with tonight’s subject. Same Rami. Because in my view, he’s a director that has gotten better through time. He’s a director that has gotten better with playing and dealing with

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with the guts of the Hollywood, the mechanism of the Hollywood system. He has moved through the different phases of expression, distribution, film production, getting films made and getting films out there.

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arguably he’s moved through three phases of that and we’ll yeah maybe like try and highlight and discuss some of that like if to touch on that it’s murder 1978 no one ever brings this movie up isn’t that crazy writer director producer now

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It’s a crime mystery, crime drama. It’s murder with an exclamation point. I don’t even know how long this movie is. It could be 20 minutes long, but it’s listed as number one on his filmography. Just to get this movie out is…

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The student circuit, the student festival, which at the time was in its infancy, the festival, the height of it was the 90s. That’s where like a little bit of the 90s independent boom came from was the festival circus and things like Sundance where.

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The festivals also became showcases for distributors. And then you had this consolidation. So within four festivals across the U.S., like you had to be there. You had to be featured. If you weren’t, you were garbage and you had no hope.

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same rami from early on learns to make a movie and to get it in front of people and he has a little bit of a mechanical mind for this because what he does but his follow-up two years later evil evil dead 1978 evil dead next to halloween are low budget lots of money

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But still merchandised out the wazoo to the state. Iron Studios could put out an Evil Dead statue of a deadite or something. And it would sell out. They could sell it for $5,000. People love the t-shirts. T-shirts are still sold in Target. 1985. His follow-up to Evil Dead. Another film. Warrior Director. 1985.

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Crime Wave, 1985. No one talks about this movie. So for one of the all-time greats, two of his three movies, two of his first three, we only talk about one.

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You can’t say that for Scorsese, Coppola, Spielberg, the generation that literally came right before St. Rami. 1987, one of the great sequels of all time, even one of the great movie posters, where it’s the skull with the googly eyes. Evil Dead 2, 1987. Here’s the confession, and this is where we’re going to get a little bit controversial, a.k.a. Patterson.

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The Evil Dead movies never clicked. I think they’re artful. They’re well-made. They deserve all the accolades. Can’t take anything away.

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The style, the character of Ash who I get, it never clicked for me the same way how Star Trek or Star Wars or the Marvel Cinematic Universe can’t click for some individuals. Or an adult sitting down to watch a musical doesn’t click or an animated feature doesn’t click. These are all fair positions and arguments, but I can’t deny that this…

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Young Dude did so much with this big idea, where Evil Dead 2 just cranks everything up. In a large effect, he remakes the first movie, which is what we see with Robert Rodriguez between El Dorado and Desperado, or, I’m sorry, El Miriachi and Desperado. James Cameron, in effect, does the same thing. He makes Terminator…

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He gets resources, sleeps with the devil, gets all of Hollywood’s resources shortly after, making a deal for his soul, but he’s able to remake Terminator with Terminator 2 Judgment Day. We see a lot of this at the time. A lot of sequels, genre sequels, are kind of remakes of the originals, but they get really good with changing just enough up, so we can all call it something different.

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1989 another movie we don’t discuss Easy Wheels writer he writes Easy Wheels I haven’t heard anyone talk about this movie including myself so far I’m a little bit behind the eight ball 1990 we have what I view as St. Rami’s first great movie Darkman

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Liam Neeson. We have a superhero for the modern age. Costs $14 million. Makes $50 million. Music. Danny Elfman. Francis McDormand. I believe this is where he meets Francis McDormand. Does she marry him? I think maybe they got married. I could be wrong. Or does Francis marry one of the Coen brothers? I can’t. Whatever. Wait. Who’s her spouse? Let’s find out.

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We can click on it. I don’t see it. Okay. Spouse. Joel Cohen. There you go. Okay. She didn’t marry Sam Raimi. Sorry, Sam. So what happens here is no action figure line. Marvel Comics does an adaptation, but no series. Darkman becomes a little bit of VHS gold. So this is now like the second industry. See, Raimi…

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The film circuit, the young student filmmaker, just getting a movie distributed through festivals, right? Darkman, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2. Now we’re in the VHS era.

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The Evil Dead movies are constantly absorbed just through renting, purchasing, always available to buy. Darkman gets a film series. I mean, how many films does Darkman have? Can we see sequels right here? Darkman 2, The Return of Durant. Darkman 3, Die, Darkman, Die.

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Even to this day, people question why this character didn’t get, just get more, like, traction.

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Never did. It’s a great movie. I think it’s one of the great made-for-cinema superhero movies of all time. It’s there as much as anything. 1992. He writes The Nuthouse. Few people speak on this movie. Wow. And then we get 92. He wraps up this trilogy. The Evil Dead trilogy. He wraps it up with the Army of Darkness and the Ash character.

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I believe Army of Darkness. In the days of streaming. Right we got a. A series. A sequel series on. It might have been S.T.A.R.S. I think it was. Ash vs Evil Dead.

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A fourth… Here, let me just read this off of a wiki. A fourth film. A fourth Evil Dead film. A soft reboot continuation of the franchise was released in 2013. Correct. Okay. And a fifth film, Evil Dead Rise. We love both of these movies. Was released in 2023. Ash vs. Evil Dead, a direct sequel to the original story premiered in 2015…

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and ran three seasons. Okay, wow. Okay, so it was, wow, all the way back to 2015 and they got three seasons out of it. Wow, I had no idea. I knew something came. That’s what she said.

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But yeah, Army of Darkness. I am as indifferent with Army of Darkness as I am with Evil Dead. I think it’s a great trilogy. I think it’s a great singular vision. Lots of ideas. Just cool ways to do almost like action horror. Great premise. We see a lot of Evil Dead come out in Steven Sommers’ The Mummy. 94. At this point…

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This is the best movie associated with Sam Raimi. He’s the writer for The Hudsucker Proxy, a Joel and Ethan Coen movie slash masterpiece. Tim Robbins, right? We got Paul Newman. You have to watch Hudsucker Proxy the next year. Now, of this time, this is his best directed movie, The Quick and the Dead.

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amazing cast, Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, a young Leonardo DiCaprio, Lance Harrison, the shots in this movie, the way, uh, the camera moves, the absolute brutality of Gene, um,

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Gene Hackman’s character where he’s just almost like a son of a bitch father. Son of a bitch sheriff. Keith Davidson in this movie. It’s a cast. And the whole movie revolves around everyone shows up at 12 o’clock and it’s a gun duel. And the best gunslingers that can draw a quick weapon, they all come to this town. It’s somewhat of a tournament where you live or die.

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1998. I will say this was my first movie of his I saw in a theater. A Simple Plan. With Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridger Fonda. Now, this is what I mean about someone who gets better with time. This becomes his best movie. Back to back. Quick and the Dead, his best movie. Next three years, 1998.

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A simple plane. Underrated, underappreciated. It’s a must watch. Upcoming, because we’re doing baseball episodes on Thursdays, even though, geez, I think I missed the last two Thursdays. What is happening with my scheduling?

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For Love of the Game, a highly underrated Kevin Costner baseball movie where he’s pitching the greatest inning of his life, and through the course of that, we flash back through the ups and downs of this guy’s world. To me, it’s of Kevin Costner’s baseball trilogy. You watch this movie with Field of Dreams, with Bull Durham, and it ends with Love of the Game. Symbolically, it’s one hell of a trilogy.

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i give him a lot of credit i think this is a great movie doesn’t get enough accolades uh people blow it over but same in my view same rammy he survives the 90s the 90s was that kind for a lot of filmmakers 2000 another forgotten underrated movie isn’t that isn’t amazing how he gets so much attention for evil dead

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No one talks about A Simple Plan. No one talks about The Quick and the Dead. No one talks about For Love of the Game. We’re talking about The Gift with Cate Blanchett. Billy Billy Bob. Now, there was like a couple movies of this time that kind of blend together. Ron Howard has one. What is… Let me see. Ron Howard. Let me look this up. Let’s do Filmography.

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Let’s see. Can I get it quickly? The clock is ticking. Oh, geez. It’s not The Missing. That’s from 2003. Give me one second here, my AKA Patters. Wow, it was The Missing, 2003. This is another one with Cate Blanchett, but she’s with Tommy Lee Jones. I, for the longest time, these two movies were interchangeable to me, and it’s mostly because of Cate Blanchett.

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Here’s the kicker, AK Powders. I’ve always heard good things about both of these movies. I’ve always heard good things about The Gift. I can’t speak on watching The Gift. This might be my one dark spot in his entire stack here. But The Gift, we can just say, not his best movie of the time. But in two years later, we get his best movie ever, which is 2002’s Spider-Man.

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Dare I say anything more than what hasn’t been already said about this movie.

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It is a perfect superhero origin movie. It is a template for superhero origin movies. Great casting. Great adaptation. Great additions. Spider-Man 2002 is, in my view, absolute Hollywood magic. And then, in 2004, he gets his greatest movie ever directed. Which is… I think you guys know what’s coming. Spider-Man 2.

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We have episodes coming for Spider-Man 2 and 3. I’ve recently re-engaged in what they like to call the St. Rami Spider-Man trilogy.

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1 and 2, just back to back, is just so mind-blowing and just perfect. And the way it just falls together and it just feels right. My only criticism in Spider-Man 2 is in the last 20 minutes, we have his identity revealed at least five times. We got episodes on Spider-Man 2 and 3 coming up.

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Then we have. He wrote the story. For the man. With the screaming brain. Can’t speak on it. So maybe that’s. The ones he’s written. And the gift. Those are the film buff. Dark spots. 2007. We get. And please listen to my episode on this. We get a true duality. Between.

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Two movies in one. Two…

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directions in one, two big ideas in one. Spider-Man 3 is really his Sandman story and the studio’s Venom story. And he… We get it together. We get it out. It’s got some of the great set pieces. I view… It’s almost like Venom should have been… Or the alien should have been introduced…

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Early, which they do in the movie, but not really revealed until like Spider-Man 4. And there’s lots of back and forths of exactly what 4 would have looked like. 2009. So here’s the thing, AK Patters. I thought Drag Me to Hell came like 10 years after Spider-Man 3. Up until this point, I have seen Simple playing in theaters.

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I have seen Spider-Man 1 and 2 in theaters. I’ve seen Spider-Man 3 in theaters. I’ve seen Drag Me to Hell in theaters. And Drag Me to Hell just absolute…

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disappointment uh we have the so those great scenes where we hear like the footsteps of like the goat demon coming towards the door i like it that it’s somewhat of a paranormal stalker movie shot during the day we’re not like you know like really not doing nighttime jump scare stuff i would have to re-engage but it’s also if we want to look at justin long’s career

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Justin Long has been in some really fantastic high-concept horror movies, even recently with Barbarian. He’s got a lot of good horror underneath his belt. This is almost like the start of that. Drag Me to Hell. I can’t speak on it very deeply. I just remember not… You know, like the…

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The ending. Not really sticking with me. Kind of thinking it was just… Almost like false feelings. Like I’m supposed to feel things. And I’m being shown things. And I just really don’t. So we might call that hollow. Don’t hold me to it. Because it has been a while since I’ve seen Drag Me to Hell. I’ve spoken about on this podcast. We have… Maybe in this entire stack. Next to…

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For love of the game, Oz, the great and powerful 2013 with James Franco, might be his most underrated movie. I speak of it highly. I love, I just love the way it just expands from that MGM musical.

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I always felt this was a solid movie, solid quest, solid journey. You can watch Oz, The Great and Powerful, watch the MGM musical, and watch Disney’s Return to Oz, and you get yourself an Oz trilogy. Isn’t it nuts where he is? He’s a part of so many sequels and trilogies at this point.

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Like, he launches a Darkman trilogy. He has three Spider-Man movies. He’s got three Evil Dead movies. He wraps up a trilogy with, you know, in a way, Oz the Great and Powerful. And then he steps in. And this movie has not lasted. Has not stood the test of time. Only came out in 2022. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Where everyone was out of their mind. They were excited that he was coming on board.

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2013 to 2020 this was the pause so he was attacked for kind of maybe retiring from film directing but coming back or took taking too long of a break or whoever who cares the guy could have had two or three kids in this meantime like he’s making enough money i mean you make the spider-man movies you you’re you’re set for life almost right you got got five million in t-bonds

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I like Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. I think for these movies, for where the Marvel Cinematic Universe audience declined, to me, this is a fun, solid sequel. I understand the outrage with the character, Americo Chavez. That character has still, to this day, not been used at all in any MCU. I mean…

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Hundreds and thousands of hours released between all the shows and movies. No Americo Chavez at all. I feel like they had to do things outside of this movie to elevate her character further. In argumentative sake, we haven’t seen Doctor Strange either, which is, to me, equally disturbing because in this movie, between this movie and Infinity War and Endgame, Doctor Strange does become the new focus of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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But now it just seems to be Daredevil. Everyone loves Daredevil. So, whatever. He takes four years off. And then we get Send Help. Which is, in my view, his best film to date. This is what I mean about… He’s got a film career stretching almost 50 years to 1978.

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And repeatedly, he directs movies where that movie becomes his greatest movie. Not many filmmakers have that. Not for this long of a stretch. Not this level of consistency. The way I was blown away just from the viewing experience of Saint Help is of note. Few movies just made me want to love someone. I’m like, man, I just love Saint Rami.

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So maybe I gotta get back, watch some of the Evil Dead. I will watch The Gift soon, so be on the… I guess I would like to re-engage in The Gift and drag me to hell. Now, producer only. Can we do some of his producer? Time Cop, 1994. Highly underrated, underappreciated…

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John Colvin’s name, Action, Masterpiece, Time Cop is still there. The Grudge, there we go. He’s part of another trilogy. The Boogeyman, 2005. The Grudge 2, 2007. The Messengers, 30 Days of Night. 30 Days of Night spins off into its own, right? Two or three sequels there. The Possession, can’t speak on that. Evil Dead, he produces his own remake with Fede Alvarez.

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This is one of the greatest reboots of all time. Murder of a Cat. Wow. No clue. Poltergeist. I like the 2015 Poltergeist. Shoot me. Don’t Breathe. Another one with one sequel, maybe two coming. Don’t Breathe is there. Crawl. We talked about Crawl. We like Crawl.

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The Grudge 2020. He remakes, you know, produces a remake that he originally produced. I love it. The Unholy. Wow. 2021. Don’t Breathe 2. Nightbox. What a productive year. 2022. Uma. I heard about this movie. I have to watch it. 65.

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Again, another sci-fi misunderstood-er. No one liked 65. I loved it. I watched it on an airplane coming back from Paris. Here we go. Boy Kills World. Oh, go back to that episode. We loved Boy Kills World. Don’t move. Another movie we loved.

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2025 Locked. 2026 Evil Dead Burned. So Evil Dead and then to be determined Evil Dead Wrath. So Evil Dead has now become a generational franchise.

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He’s got short films in his filmography from 1972 all the way to 2017. That’s pretty impressive. Awards and nominations. Let’s see. What’s the best director? Darkman for Sigist Fest. So, okay. He doesn’t have the full award season, full award accolades. But then again, what films has he made that does?

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He has acted. Television. Here we go. We got to talk about him being the creator of Mantis. I remember that was on Fox. I ran for one season. You compare Mantis very well, very much with Darkman. Xena, Warrior Princess. People forget he is executive producer and developer of that. Spy Game.

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Executive producer, creator. The Legend of the Seeker, creator. Rake, executive producer. Evil Dead and Ash, writer, director, executive producer, and editor. Wow, I didn’t know he was that involved with that. 2022, 50 States of Fright. I believe that could be a three-episode documentary series. So even when he was in this break period between…

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The Oz, Great and Powerful, and Doctor Strange. 2013 through 2022. I mean, the guy’s been involved with a ton of TV shows and movies as producer and executive producer. Yeah, so there you go. He’s still busy.

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And as executive producer, yeah, he’s got, I mean, going back to John Colvin’s name, let’s end it on this. He’s executive producer of Hard Target, directed by John Woo, and not so much underrated John Colvin’s name movie, but just kind of forgotten at this point.

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1993, John Colvin in the name, Hard Target, directed by John Woo. Also, going back to Lance Erickson, this movie is a cockmaster. It’s such a wild ride. Loved it. Let me use some of those platitudes. Wild ride, right?

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All right, A.K. Patters, I love you guys. Thanks for hanging out. I know there’s a little bit of a meaty filmography, but I just wanted to talk about this guy because I loved that Send Help movie so much. I just said, let’s do it. Let’s just sit down and go through every single one of his movies. All right, A.K. Patters, I love you guys. Rock on. Okay, that’s a wrap.

PETER A DELUCA AKAPD

AKAPAD is a versatile thinker known across Philadelphia, Europe, and even in the vast Multiverse as The Electic One. By day, he excels as an IT Mastermind, assisting individuals, both big and small, with a wide range of simple and complex solutions. In contrast, he is also a talented illustrator, a passionate comic book enthusiast, a creative content creator, and an active live streamer. Additionally, his podcast, “AKAPAD The Film Buff Podcast,” boasts an impressive catalog of over 500 episodes available on nearly every major platform.