Sam Raimi

He became fascinated in making films when his father brought a camera home one day and saw that he could make his own movie magic. He began to make Super 8 movies with friend Bruce Campbell. At college, he teamed up with his brothers room-mate Robert Tapert and Campbell to raise money for a low-budget horror film. The Evil Dead (1983) became a major hit and he began work on his second film Crimewave (1985), intended as a live-action comic book - the film was not successful due to unwanted studio intervention. Raimi returned to ...

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Sam Raimi, Sam Raimi - Film, Sam Raimi - Television, Sam Raimi - Trademarks, Sam Raimi - Filmography

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Venom Art by Mark Bagley (1993) Venom (Eddie Brock) is a comic book supervillain (sometimes referred to as an anti-hero) in the Marvel Comics universe, and an enemy of Spider-Man. Venom comics - Character history. While embroiled in a major crossover storyline fighting the Secret Wars on an alien planet, Spider-Man acquired an alien costume. It responded to his thoughts, was able to mimic street clothes and seemed to provide an inexhaustible supply of webbing. Unfortunately, once ...

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• Venom comics - Character history
• Venom comics - Powers and abilities
• Venom comics - Controversy Over Creator Credit
• Venom comics - Other versions of Venom
• Venom comics - Ultimate Venom
• Venom comics - What If? Series
• Venom comics - Venom in video games
• Venom comics - Venom in film
• Venom comics - Cultural
• Venom comics - Bibliography
• Venom comics - Solo series and oneshots
• Venom comics - Reprints

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A cult film is a movie that attracts a small but devoted group of fans, usually failing to achieve considerable success outside that group. Cult film - Overview. Most movies considered "cult films" failed to achieve mainstream success upon original theatrical release, often grossing more money in video rentals and sales than in theater tickets. In most cases (but by no means all), the film hardly makes an impression with the general public and critics are often apathetic as well. However, a small, devoted g ...

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• Cult film - Overview
• Cult film - Cult films within a particular culture
• Cult film - So-bad-they’re-good cult films
• Cult film - Selected list of cult film actors
• Cult film - Selected list of cult film directors

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain, first published in 1889. It is worth noting that this work may be the first example of time travel in literature. The novel tells the tale of Hank Morgan, a 19th-century citizen of Hartford, Connecticut who awakens to find himself mysteriously transported back in time to early medieval England at the time of the legendary King Arthur in AD 528. Hank uses his advanced technological knowledge and Yankee ingenuity to ad ...

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• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Adaptations

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Zombies!!! is a Tile-based strategy board game designed by Todd Breitenstein and published by Twilight Creations for two to six players. In 2002, Zombies!!! won the Origins Award for Best Graphic Presentation of a Board Game 2001 and in 2004 Zombies 3: Mall walkers won Best Board Game Expansion or Supplement of 2003. Zombies!!! - Game Play. The game board is a Zombie-infested town built by the players as the game progresses. The game starts with the town square tile face up and 28 other town t ...

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• Zombies!!! - Game Play
• Zombies!!! - Game Interest
• Zombies!!! - Expansions
• Zombies!!! - Spinoffs

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Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman (born May 29, 1953, in Amarillo, Texas) is a Jewish-American pop musician, composer and writer of film scores. His compositions are notable for their very operatic and intense style, already distinct by the time of his early work, Forbidden Zone. The fiercely creative Elfman got his start in the 1970s playing in two theater troupes started by his older brother Richard - Le Grande Magic Circus, and then The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. After eight years in the Mistic Knights as a singer ...

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William Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827) was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Though largely unrecognised during his lifetime, today Blake's work is almost universally considered that of a genius. According to Northrop Frye, who undertook a study of Blake's entire poetic opus, his prophetic poems form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the [English] language". Others have praised Blake's visual artistry, in particular his engravings: "[Blake] is far and away ...

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• William Blake - Early life
• William Blake - Childhood and Family
• William Blake - Apprenticeship to Basire
• William Blake - The Royal Academy
• William Blake - Marriage
• William Blake - Later life and career
• William Blake - Bibliography
• William Blake - Illuminated Books

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Army of Darkness (1993) is the third installment of the Evil Dead film trilogy, written and directed by Sam Raimi and starring Bruce Campbell. This movie takes a more humorous bent than its predecessors; as a matter of fact, to refer to this movie as comedy would not be inaccurate. The advertising tagline was "Trapped in Time. Surrounded by Evil. Low on Gas." The protagonist, Ash (Campbell), who, in the previous The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II discovered the Necronomicon ex Mortis, or "Book of ...

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• Army of Darkness - Alternate endings
• Army of Darkness - Trivia

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Black comedy, also known as black humor, is a subgenre of comedy and satire where topics and events normally treated seriously – death, mass murder, sickness, madness, terror, drug abuse, rape, etc. – are treated in a humorous or satirical manner. Synonyms created to avoid possible racial overtones include dark comedy/humor, morbid comedy/humor and off-color humor (see also color metaphors for race.) A scene in Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot demonstrates black comedy well: a man takes of ...

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• Black comedy - Literature
• Black comedy - Films
• Black comedy - Periodicals
• Black comedy - Television
• Black comedy - Video Games
• Black comedy - Websites
• Black comedy - People
• Black comedy - Authors
• Black comedy - Comedians
• Black comedy - Comics Artists and Writers
• Black comedy - Filmmakers
• Black comedy - Musicians
• Black comedy - Radio Personalities

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The Necronomicon is the title of a fictional book created by H.P. Lovecraft and often featured in stories based on the Cthulhu mythos inspired by his works. However, some people believe in the existence of an actual ancient text called the Necronomicon which may or may not fit the description given in Lovecraft's fiction. Necronomicon - The book. Lovecraft often referenced fictional works in his horror fiction, a practice common among subsequent fantasy authors like Jorge Luis Borges and Willi ...

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• Necronomicon - Origin and fictional history
• Necronomicon - Criticism
• Necronomicon - Appearance and content
• Necronomicon - Locations
• Necronomicon - Etymology of the title
• Necronomicon - The Necronomicon as a real book
• Necronomicon - References to the Necronomicon
• Necronomicon - Commercially available books titled Necronomicon

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Ning (Leslie Cheung) is a timid tax collector whose line of work involves going to rural areas to perform his job. During one of his regular pursuits, he was side-tracked from his duties when his account ledgers were soaked by a downpour and eventually got lost in the jungle of which the surroundings were bathed in an eerie atmosphere. Close encounters with predators in the jungle were not the only threats which he faced but also an alluringly beautiful ghost Nie (Joey Wong) whom he saw in an elaborate pavilion in the jungle itself surrounde ...

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A Chinese Ghost Story, A Chinese Ghost Story - Plot summary, A Chinese Ghost Story - Influences

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The novel's main character is Hank Mitchell, a middle class married man who works as an accountant. After visiting his father's grave with his anti-social brother, Jacob, and Jacob's alcoholic friend, Lou, Jacob is cut off by a fox and veers his truck into the ditch. The three follow the fox into the woods for vengeance -- Hank somewhat reluctantly -- and end up finding a crashed plane instead. Inside the plane is ...

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A Simple Plan, A Simple Plan - Synopsis, A Simple Plan - Movie version

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The name Smithee is used extensively in television, taking the direction credit for episodes of well-known series, including the pilot for the action-adventure series MacGyver. Jud Taylor twice used the pseudonym, for the TV movies Fade-In (a.k.a. Iron Cowboy) (1968) with Burt Reynolds and City in Fear (1980) with David Janssen. Taylor commented on its use when the DGA's Robert B. A ...

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Alan Smithee, Alan Smithee - The birth, Alan Smithee - A prolific career, Alan Smithee - DGA replaces the practice, Alan Smithee - Use in alternative versions, Alan Smithee - Other films crediting Smithee as director, Alan Smithee - Trivia, Alan Smithee - Related pseudonyms

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The plot is relatively simple. When five recent college graduates trek to a remote cabin in the woods to celebrate, they encounter a vagrant stumbling near their cabin who appears to be extremely ill. When the man attempts to steal their truck after they panic and turn him away without assistance, one of the campers accidentally lights him on fire and he runs into the woods where he eventually falls into the cabin's water supply. When one of the friends contracts the flesh-eating bug (which shows traits very similar to Necrotizing fas ...

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Cabin Fever film, Cabin Fever film - Plot, Cabin Fever film - Cast

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The name Smithee is used extensively in television and film, taking the direction credit for episodes of well-known series, including the pilot for the action-adventure series MacGyver. Jud Taylor twice used the pseudonym, for the TV movies Fade-In (a.k.a. Iron Cowboy) (1968) with Burt Reynolds and City in Fear (1980) with David Janssen. Taylor commented on its use when the DGA's Robert B. A ...

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Alan Smithee, Alan Smithee - The birth, Alan Smithee - A prolific career, Alan Smithee - DGA replaces the practice, Alan Smithee - Use in alternative versions, Alan Smithee - Other films crediting Smithee as director, Alan Smithee - Trivia, Alan Smithee - Related pseudonyms

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Protagonist Peter Parker is an intellectually precocious but socially inept teenager, too shy to approach Mary Jane, the girl next-door with whom he is smitten. His only friend is Harry Osborn, and even their friendship is tainted with jealousy by the fact that Harry's successful industrialist father, Norman Osborn, favors the brilliant Peter over Harry himself. Parker lives in New York City, in the ...

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Spider-Man film, Spider-Man film - Plot Summary, Spider-Man film - Critical reaction, Spider-Man film - Original trailer, Spider-Man film - Trivia

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Oldsmobile - Early Models. The 1901-1904 Curved Dash was the first mass-produced car, and was also the first American car to be exported. Oldsmobile set a land speed record of 54.38 mph at Daytona Beach in the 1903 Pirate. In 1908, Oldsmobile became the first manufacturer to begin using nickel, rather than brass, trim. The 1911 Limited Touring was a high point for the company with its 60 hp (45 kW) 707 in³ (11.6 L) straight-6 engine and high levels of luxury. ...

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Oldsmobile, Oldsmobile - History, Oldsmobile - Oldsmobile in popular culture, Oldsmobile - Model Timeline, Oldsmobile - Early Models, Oldsmobile - 1912-1938, Oldsmobile - 1939-1960, Oldsmobile - 1960s, Oldsmobile - 1970s-1980s, Oldsmobile - 1990s, Oldsmobile - The end, Oldsmobile - Oldsmobile models

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Most movies considered "cult films" failed to achieve mainstream success upon original theatrical release, often grossing more money in video rentals and sales than in theater tickets. In most cases (but by no means all), the film hardly makes an impression with the general public and critics are often apathetic as well. However, a small, devoted group of viewers, often "film buffs" or film students, sho ...

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Cult film, Cult film - Overview, Cult film - Cult films within a particular culture, Cult film - So-bad-they’re-good cult films, Cult film - Cult film figures, Cult film - Selected list of cult film actors, Cult film - Selected list of cult film directors

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William Blake - Childhood and Family. Blake was born at 28a Broad Street, Golden Square, London into a middle-class family. He was one of four children (an older brother died in infancy). His father was a hosier. They are believed to have belonged to a radical religious sect called Dissenters; however, the exact identity of the sect is a mystery. The Bible was an early and profound influence on Blake, and would remain a crucia ...

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William Blake, William Blake - Early life, William Blake - Childhood and Family, William Blake - Apprenticeship to Basire, William Blake - The Royal Academy, William Blake - Marriage, William Blake - Later life and career, William Blake - Bibliography, William Blake - Illuminated Books

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While embroiled in a major crossover storyline fighting the Secret Wars on an alien planet, Spider-Man acquired an alien costume. It responded to his thoughts, was able to mimic street clothes and seemed to provide an inexhaustible supply of webbing. Unfortunately, once on Earth, Spider-Man learned that the costume was in fact a sentient Symbiote, that desired to fuse permanently with Spider-Man, and which enveloped him at night as he slept, using his unconscious body to go out and fight crime. With the aid of Mister Fantastic, Spider ...

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Venom comics, Venom comics - Character history, Venom comics - Powers and abilities, Venom comics - Controversy Over Creator Credit, Venom comics - Other versions of Venom, Venom comics - Ultimate Venom, Venom comics - What If? Series, Venom comics - Venom in video games, Venom comics - Venom in film, Venom comics - Cultural, Venom comics - Bibliography, Venom comics - Solo series and oneshots, Venom comics - Reprints

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