Drag Me to Hell
After a spidery sabbatical, Sam Raimi returns to the horror genre in 2009 to do for bank branches what The Evil Dead did for tree branches. Drag Me to Hell […]
Tag Archives: Sam Raimi
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Decades after helping to kickstart the modern superhero genre (and I’m not talking about Darkman), Sam Raimi returns to Marvel to juggle scripture, magic and a whole lot of people […]
Don’t Breathe 2
Between COVID and A Quiet Place 2 it might be easy to miss the release of another sensory sequel, Don’t Breathe 2, perhaps the most misjudged movie since United Passions. A […]
Army of Darkness
Trapped in the Middle Ages, Ash (Bruce Campbell) is back as the man whose chin grows in every incarnation, begging the question of why he’s never played Mitt Romney. The […]
Evil Dead II
The world’s worst romantic (Bruce Campbell) returns with his girlfriend (Denise Bixler) to the evil cabin in this 1986 sequel/remake/self-parody. What’s extraordinary about Evil Dead II (AKA Dead by Dawn, […]
Video Nasty 51: The Evil Dead
Ashley (Bruce Campbell) and his friends take a trip to an evil cabin, home to the Book of the Dead which, when read aloud, unleashes the biggest shitstorm since Simon […]
Crawl
In Sam Raimi’s latest production, Kaya Scodelario (Effy from Skins) and Barry Pepper (Jonnie Goodboy Tyler from Battlefield Earth) are trapped in a flooded basement with a pair of alligators […]
Panorama – Is Labour Anti-Semitic?
The BBC broadcast an exposé of antisemitism in the Labour Party last week, much to the chagrin of party spokesman Owen Jones who helpfully criticised the camerawork, likening it to […]
The Possession
Where most possession movies are based around Christianity, 2012’s The Possession features a Jewish demon – and since we call the Christian ones Jesus Creepers, it seems only fair that […]
Don’t Breathe
From director Fede Alvarez and producer Sam Raimi comes new horror film Don’t Breathe, sung in my head to the tune of ‘Don’t Speak’ by No Doubt. Trying to steal a […]
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