Tag Archives: Sam Raimi

Everyone just kind of assumed that after the success of the remake of THE EVIL DEAD that Raimi and his crew of scare bringers would immediately go into sequel mode and whip out a sequel to the remake. Well it appears as if he may be working on a sequel but not to the film you might think. According to …

Featuring the films and career of director Sam Raimi. Welcome to the Monster Movie Podcast. This week Doc Rotten and Thomas Mariani cover the films of Sam Raimi, one of the most kinetic and frenzied cinematic directors of the modern era. With a career spanning decades from his debut film, The Evil Dead (1981), to his most recent blockbuster, Oz …

Featuring: Oz The Great and Powerful, Iron Man 3 and The Walking Dead. Welcome to the Monster Movie Podcast. Join us this week for balloons, baboons and buffoons as co-hosts Doc Rotten and Thomas Mariani take a merry ole trip to Oz! This is episode 44, recorded March 11, 2013.  Sam Raimi is back with Disney’s Oz the Great and Powerful featuring …

SYNOPSIS: A small-time magician arrives in an enchanted land and is forced to decide if he will be a good man or a great one. REVIEW: Why oh why did Hollywood decide that a prequel to “The Wizard Of Oz” (1939) was necessary? We got more than a few sequels already (1985’s “RETURN TO OZ” being the most egregious of …

So, what would happen if you got Joel and Ethan Coen and Sam Raimi together in a room? CRIMEWAVE, that’s what. A cult hit crime / comedy classic CRIMEWAVE is going to be making its long overdue Blu-ray debut on May 14th thanks to those wonderful film fans over at SHOUT Factory. Details arrived in my inbox this morning and …

SYNOPSIS: Jack Stryker took two bullets in the leg in Vietnam and was carried back by one of his men. When he returns he tries to live a peaceful life in his cabin and resume dating his girlfriend, Sally. Meanwhile, a vicious cult let by Sam Raimi, who believes he is Jesus Christ, has been slaughtering people and doing blood …

SYNOPSIS: The night crew of a local grocery store goes about their jobs just like normal. Never mind the cashier’s weird ex boyfriend who seems to want to fight everyone; you see the employees are turning up dead. Well pieces of them anyway, scattered throughout the entire store. REVIEW: Directed by: Scott Spiegel Starring: Elizabeth Cox, Dan Hicks, David Byrnes, …

After years of here say and misinformation it appears that things are actually gearing up for the reboot of the EVIL DEAD franchise. Bruce Campbell was just on an VH1 morning show the other day and he was talking about it and then today comes a press release and a title treatment. Here’s the word directly from the press release:

SYNOPSIS: A recovering alcoholic must wrestle with demons within and without when he and his family move into a haunted hotel as caretakers. REVIEW: Written by: Stephen King Directed by: Mick Garris Starring: Melvin Van Peebles, Pat Hingle, Wil Horneff, Shawnee Smith, Sam Raimi, Mick Garris, Steven Weber, Rebecca De Mornay, Courtland Mead and Stephen King Based on the novel …

This has been one wild week for EVIL DEAD 4. For years rumors and untruths has been rampant and now in just 2 short days we’ve been able to confirm that the film is happening, we have a director and we know who the screenwriter is. Lets update everything shall we? Today’s big news is that Diablo Cody has been …

Burning up the horror news wire today is all kinds of news that EVIL DEAD 4 is gearing up and this time it appears it just might be true. First word came that it looked like production was winding up because a long time Raimi collaborator was heading to Detroit to start work on the project. Nothing firm, kinda weak …

I know what your thinking, why the hell would we be talking about THE WIZARD OF OZ on a hard core horror site such as this?  If you think back hard enough you will probably realize that as a child one of the first things you seen that scared the sh*t out of you was that Green witch and her …

Recently at NYCC I attended the Bruce Campbell panel, and for a few extra dollars he was doing signings in Autograph Alley. He knew how to work the room. Campbell is one ironic, sarcastic, charismatic people I’ve ever seen. It was amazing! If you don’t know who he is or have experienced the magic that is Bruce Campbell than you’ve …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Five friends go to a cabin in the woods for a vacation. They discover The Book of the Dead and a tape recorder belonging to a professor, who also owns the cabin. One of them plays back what is recorded on the tape– which just happens to be Candarian resurrection passages translated from the Necronomicon (Book of …