Word: raimi
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...formula, in which teen stars act hip while being terrorized (Disturbing Behavior and Urban Legend come readily to mind), it's refreshing to watch a horror flick that isn't afraid to rely on excessive campiness. While Vampires never quite reaches the level of ingenious nonsense as, say, Sam Raimi's Evil Dead, its clever blend of Dracula and The Wild Bunch makes for an embarrassingly fun ride. Much like the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez vampire spaghetti western From Dusk Till Dawn, Vampires doesn't have a shred of seriousness to it. Which is more credible--the sight of Daniel Baldwin...
...SIMPLE PLAN A wad of hot money tests the brotherly love of Billy Bob Thornton and Bill Paxton. Director: Sam Raimi...
After working in numerous British feature and TV films, Neeson moved in 1985 to Los Angeles, where he began performing in a string of indifferently received movies like The Good Mother, with Diane Keaton, and Sam Raimi's Darkman. But he never forgot the stage, and it was his dynamic performance in a '93 Broadway revival of Anna Christie that convinced Spielberg he had found his Schindler...
...never lost touch with reality, which is sadly not the case with the stylish but bloodless Hudsucker Proxy. Most important, he and Sturges, ever the sentimental wise guy, were at heart children of the light. The Coens (Joel directs, Ethan produces and they write together, this time with Sam Raimi) are creatures of darkness. At their best (the great Miller's Crossing or the dizzy Raising Arizona) they are brilliant satirists of the national propensity for violence. But here they have deliberately cut themselves off from their best subject. Try as they will to create a vision of corporate...
...unfazed by Hard Target's $18.5 million price tag, about five times the size of his Hong Kong budgets. Still, there were adjustments. "In Hong Kong," notes Van Damme, "he's the Steven Spielberg of action movies, but in Los Angeles he's just the new guy in town." Raimi says Woo "had to be told why he couldn't have American stunt men run their faces through candied glass. In Hong Kong they don't have our safety rules, which leads to more stunt men in the hospital -- and to more exciting action sequences...