In his film and television projects, Sam Raimi's brother Ted Raimi and his friend Bruce Campbell often appear in on-screen roles, though these appearances are often just short cameos. He has included a 1973 yellow Oldsmobile Delta 88 automobile (nicknamed "The Classic") in most of his films.
Other director trademarks include: a distinctive type of camera shot where the camera follows a moving object such as an arrow at high speeds in first person or side view; dolly zooms; choppy montage-style sequences to cover a lengthy set of actions in a short space of time; and shots of smoke or fog in the ...
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 ...
