Sam Raimi directed a movie between "The Evil Dead" and "Evil Dead II" that was written by the Coen Brothers and no one ever talks about it...until NOW.
It's the definitive Sam Raimi film - a "symphony of silly" with a bravura performance from Bruce Campbell, and a prevailing sense of, "the more gore the merrier!"
Who's Darkman? A man of a thousand faces. A walking fleshwound who probably smells awful. A dude who probably would be into night eggs. Filmmaker Chris Weitz joins us to geek out over Sam Raimi's homage to the Universal Monsters.
KLAATU BARADA NIKTO - did we get that right? Writer Eva Anderson joins us as we attempt to answer several questions related to the final entry in the Evil Dead trilogy - 1993's Army of Darkness.
Considered a bit of a "blank check" for actress Sharon Stone, "The Quick and The Dead" may have been too quirky for mainstream audiences and too earnest for the post-Tarantino generation of cinephiles back in 1995.
Katie Holmes in a lazy southern accent asks, "What's the matter? See somethin' bad?" and we are immediately transported back to the year 2000 when the trailers for this movie were EVERYWHERE.
For a while, "Spider-Man 2" was considered the high water mark for superhero movies - but does it hold up 14 years deep into the MCU? We've got two words for you - ALFRED MOLINA.
If "Spider-Man 2" had the reputation of being the greatest superhero movie of all time, "Spider-Man 3" had the inverse - a bloated mess with too many villains, and a very goofy Peter Parker going to the darkside.
After the massive box office success of his Spider-Man movies, Sam Raimi went "back to basics" - returning to the gnarly demonic possession genre that he put his stamp on back in the "Evil Dead" days.
Ah, yes - we've arrived at the reason why we held off on covering Sam Raimi for so long...because we didn't want to end our series on such a dismal note. "Oz the Great and Powerful".
Our Sam Raimi series concludes with his most recent film - not to mention the first MCU film we've covered on the main feed - it's time for Doctor Strange 2.