Director case study

1. Sam Raimi
Director Case Study

2. • Samuel Raimi was born on October 23rd in
1959 in Royal Oak, Michigan.
• He was raised in conservative Judaism.
• The director graduated Groves High School.
• He attended Michigan State Uni in which he
majored in English but left to film The Evil
Dead.
• He currently is married to Gillian Dania and
has 5 children.

3. • Raimi has directed some of Hollywood’s
scariest movies and biggest blockbusters; like
Spider man and Evil Dead 2.
• His career first took off with a low budget
horrow film called Evil Dead (1981).
• He has directed the first spiderman film
franchise in 2002, 2004 and 2007.

4. • Sam Raimi was influenced by his father to
start making films as his father brought him a
movie camera to film while he was young.
• Raimi raised $375,000 from shooting a 32
minute horror film called ‘Within the Woods’
• On a low budget he was able to bring together
enough money to create Evil Dead which
ended up being a very successful horror film
which began his career

5. Raimi became extremely popular after directing
the spider man franchise however the first
spider man film he directed in 2002 grossed
over $800m worldwide worldwide.
The director then produced ‘The Grudge” Trilogy
and other blockbuster movies.
He also reproduced his hit ‘Evil Dead’ and is
remaking poltergeist.