This was used after Sam Raimi was unable to use his original title " The Medieval Dead.

To achieve this effect, Raimi used 60-foot-tall Scotchlite front-projection screens, miniatures and background plates.

Campbell and Raimi collaborated on a 30-minute Super 8 version of the first Evil Dead film, titled Within the Woods, which was initially used to attract investors.

Also in the film were Tony Todd from Candyman, Ted Raimi from Darkman, Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness, Ricco Ross from Aliens, Joseph Pilato from Day of the Dead, Reggie Bannister and the voice of Angus Scrimm ( both of the Phantasm films ), Jenny O ' Hara from the later Devil, Jack Lemmon's son Chris Lemmon from Just Before Dawn and George " Buck " Flower ( who was often used in small parts in various horror-movies of the 1980s and early 1990s, often directed by John Carpenter ).

Raimi damages the main piece of machinery used in the ghost separation in order to prevent Bryson's separation.

In the The Evil Dead trilogy, Sam Raimi used Dutch angles to show that a character had become possessed.

When creating Army of Darkness, Raimi toyed with giving him the full name " Ashley J. Williams ", which was later used by video games and comics involving the character.

Director Sam Raimi and his childhood friend actor Bruce Campbell refer to body doubles and stand-ins as " Shemps " or " Fake Shemps " in reference to the postmortem Stooges shorts.

He later recorded an audio play adaptation of Make Love with fellow Michigan actors including longtime collaborator Ted Raimi.

Spiegel and Raimi wrote most of the film in their house in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California, where they were living with the aforementioned Coen brothers, as well as actors Frances McDormand, Kathy Bates, and Holly Hunter ( Hunter was the primary inspiration for the Bobby Jo character ).

In the Making The Amazing documentary on the Spider-Man 2 DVD, both Tobey Maguire and Bruce Campbell jokingly describe Raimi's penchant for " abusing " actors: In order to get realistic closeups of a character getting hit by debris, Raimi usually stands just off-camera throwing items, swinging tree branches, etc., at the actor who is at the center of the shot.

Alumni in Hollywood include actors such as Anthony Heald, Robert Urich and William Fawcett ; comedian Dick Martin, comedian Jackie Martling, film director Sam Raimi, and Academy Award winning film editor of The Hurt Locker and the Spider-Man films, Bob Murawski, as well as screenwriter David Magee.

However, Richard Corliss in Time said that Raimi wasn ’ t " effective with actors " and People ’ s Ralph Novak called Darkman, a " loud, sadistic, stupidly written, wretchedly acted film.

* Ted Raimi as Possessed Henrietta, Annie's possessed mother who uses her memories to lure her in order to kill her and everybody else, but gets killed when Ash stabs her through the chest with his chainsaw.

Raimi contacted his old friend Scott Spiegel, who had collaborated with Campbell and others on the Super-8 films they had produced during their childhood in Michigan.

Raimi is the younger brother of Evil Dead & Spider-Man director Sam Raimi, who directed him in Xena and Hercules, as well as in the Spider-Man movies.

Ted also has an older sister, Andrea Raimi Rubin, who is currently a court reporter.

The series was created in 1995 by writer-director-producer Robert Tapert under his production tag, Renaissance Pictures with later executive producers being R. J. Stewart ( who developed the series along with Tapert ) and Sam Raimi.

We need someone who has the same obsession with the source material as Peter Jackson had with Lord of the Rings or Sam Raimi had with Spider-Man.

The worker who is lowering the crate is drinking on the job and accidentally drops it from his crane, killing Beaumont's assistant ( Ted Raimi ) and destroying the statue.

It's the most lugubrious and soppy love story in many a moon, a step backward for director Sam Raimi after ' A Simple Plan ,' and yet another movie in which Kevin Costner plays a character who has all the right window dressing but is neither juicy nor interesting.

At the end, one of the agents seemingly becomes possessed and kills the rest of the team with the exception of Raimi, who just gets badly wounded, and, as the latter later finds out, Bryson.

She appears as a young girl, having died at the age of 5 ( her aunt's diary entries indicate she was born in 1925 and died in 1930 ), who is completely green and, unlike Raimi and the Spectral Operatives, resembles her physical body.

The real Raimi meets his body's new occupant several times during the game, who in turn tries to deter him at every opportunity.

For the most part, Raimi gets to possess guards who carry one weapon and an unlimited amount of ammunition.

For the role, Raimi was looking for someone who could suggest " a monster with the soul of a man, and I needed an actor who could do that beneath a lot of makeup " and liked Neeson's " old Gary Cooper charisma.

The initial idea Raimi had for Darkman was of a man who could change his face.

At this point, according to Raimi, " it became the story of a man who had lost his face and had to take on other faces, a man who battled criminals using this power ".

The more Raimi worked, the more Darkman became a crime-fighting figure, " a non-superpowered man who, here, is a hideous thing who fights crime.

As he became that hideous thing, it became more like The Phantom of the Opera, the creature who wants the girl but who was too much of a beast to have her ," Raimi said.

Initially, Raimi invited Scott Spiegel to co-write Army of Darkness because he had done a good job on Evil Dead II, but he was busy on rewrites for the Clint Eastwood film The Rookie.

Visual effects supervisor William Mesa showed Raimi storyboards he had from Victor Fleming's film Joan of Arc that depicted huge battle scenes and he picked out 25 shots to use in Army of Darkness.

He had asked Raimi if he would direct a theatrical adaptation of the Stephen King ( written under his Richard Bachman pseudonym ) novel Thinner.

Although Raimi and Tapert had desired $ 4 million for the production, they were allotted only $ 3. 6 million.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Raimi had expressed an interest in directing a film version of The Hobbit, the prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

However at Comic-Con International 2012, Raimi stated that he was no longer involved in the project, saying “ Actually, they don ’ t have me directing World of Warcraft anymore because when I took the Oz job, they had to move on to another director.

The first image the Coens and Raimi conceived was of Norville Barnes about to jump from the window of a skyscraper and then they had to figure out how he got there and how to save him.

In January 2006, reports emerged that director Sam Raimi had signed up to make a movie based on this novel with a script by Pamela Pettler, the writer of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride.

The only person he always behaves properly towards is his boss, though Rourke at one time states he would have ignored Volks ' orders just for his own fun had Raimi not been tougher than he had expected.

* Frances McDormand as Julie Hastings: Raimi had wanted to work with Frances McDormand but the studio resisted this notion and almost cast Julia Roberts before Pretty Woman made her a star.

For a long time, Sam Raimi had been interested in adapting a comic book into a film.

The studio still wasn't satisfied so the Raimi brothers wrote drafts six through twelve before they had a shooting script.

Universal told Raimi that some people rated Darkman the worst film they had ever seen.

Meanwhile, William wakes up in the warehouse of a scientist named Dr. Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov ( Stacy Keach ), and his idiotic assistant Pavel ( Ted Raimi ), who had taken damaged parts of William's brain and replaced it with healthy tissue from Yegor's.