(L to R) Director Sam Raimi and Rachel McAdams on the set of 20th Century Studios’ ‘Send Help’. Photo by Brook Rushton. © 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Sam Raimi is one of the most beloved and unique directors of his generation.
Raimi’s career began in the early 1980s when he teamed with actor Bruce Campbell and producer Robert Tapert to make the groundbreaking horror film ‘The Evil Dead‘, eventually leading to the equally groundbreaking sequels ‘Evil Dead II‘ and ‘Army of Darkness‘.
“Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.”
Release Date: Feb 19, 1993
Run Time: 1 hr 21 min
Budget: $11,000,000
He would go on to direct such popular movies as ‘Darkman‘, ‘The Quick and the Dead‘ and ‘A Simple Plan‘, before making the box office hit ‘Spider-Man‘, which reinvented the genre.
Raimi would follow that up with the successful sequels ‘Spider-Man 2‘ and ‘Spider-Man 3‘, before moving on to make ‘Drag Me to Hell‘, ‘Oz the Great and Powerful‘, and the MCU movie ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness‘.
The director’s latest, ‘Send Help‘, opens in theaters on January 30th and stars Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien.
In honor of ‘Send Help’, Moviefone is counting down every film Sam Raimi has ever directed, including his latest.
Let’s begin!
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(L to R) Thomas Haden Church and Tobey Maguire in ‘Spider-Man 3.’ Photo: Sony.
The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-shifting Sandman (Thomas Haden Church). While Spider-Man’s superpowers are altered by an alien organism, his alter ego, Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire), deals with nemesis Eddie Brock (Topher Grace) and also gets caught up in a love triangle.
“The greatest battle lies within.”
Release Date: May 3, 2007
Run Time: 2 hr 19 min
Budget: $258,000,000
A scene from 1977’s ‘It’s Murder!’
The film tells the story of a family whose uncle is murdered. The son (Raimi) gets everything because he’s in the will. A detective (Scott Spiegel) is trying to find out who murdered the uncle while avoiding ending up dead as well.
“Six Groves graduates bring you the most deadly motion picture ever made!!!”
Run Time: 1 hr 11 min
Budget: $2,000
2013’s ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’. Photo: Walt Disney Pictures.
Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he’s the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.
“In Oz, nothing is what it seems.”
Release Date: Mar 8, 2013
Run Time: 2 hr 10 min
Budget: $200,000,000
(L to R) Sheree J. Wilson and Brion James in ‘Crimewave’. Photo: Columbia Pictures.
Fed up of his business partner, Ernest Trend (Edward R. Pressman) hires the services of two exterminators. When things go drastically wrong and they murder the wrong man, the race is on to frame an innocent video surveillance man.
“There’s nothing scarier than your first date.”
Release Date: Apr 25, 1986
Run Time: 1 hr 23 min
Budget: $3,000,000
Kevin Costner in ‘For Love of the Game’. Photo: Universal Pictures.
A baseball legend (Kevin Costner) almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman (Kelly Preston) he has loved for the past four years.
“Billy Chapel must choose between the woman he loves and the game he lives for.”
Release Date: Sep 17, 1999
Run Time: 2 hr 18 min
Budget: $50,000,000
(L to R) Charlize Theron and Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.’ Photo: Marvel Studios.
Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary.
“If you ever see me again, you never saw me before.”
Release Date: Oct 9, 1987
Run Time: 1 hr 43 min
Budget: $17,000,000
Alison Lohman in ‘Drag Me to Hell’. Photo: Universal Pictures .
After denying a woman (Lorna Raver) the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she’s been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend (Justin Long) is skeptical. Her only hope seems to lie in a psychic (Dileep Rao) who claims he can help her lift the curse and keep her soul from being dragged straight to hell.
“Christine Brown has a good job, a great boyfriend, and a bright future. But in three days, she’s going to hell.”
Release Date: May 29, 2009
Run Time: 1 hr 39 min
Budget: $30,000,000
(L to R) Rachal McAdams as Linda Liddle and Dylan O’Brien as Bradley Preston in 20th Century Studios’ ‘Send Help’. Photo by Brook Rushton. © 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Two colleagues (Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien) become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. On the island, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it’s a battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.
“Meet Linda Liddle… She’s from strategy and planning. She’s the boss now.”
Release Date: Jan 30, 2026
Run Time: 1 hr 53 min
Budget: $40,000,000
Cate Blanchett in ‘The Gift’. Photo: Paramount Classics.
Annie Wilson (Cate Blanchett), young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others’ futures—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by a client’s violent husband and plagued by visions of a missing local woman, Annie finds herself pulled into a thicket of lies and deception in which her extraordinary gift may ultimately get her killed.
“The only witness to the crime was not even there.”
Release Date: Jan 19, 2001
Run Time: 1 hr 52 min
Budget: $10,000,000
(L to R) Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton in ‘A Simple Plan’. Photo: Paramount Pictures.
Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers (Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton) erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain the money while avoiding detection opens a Pandora’s box when the fear of getting caught triggers panicked behavior and leads to virulent consequences.
“Sometimes good people do evil things.”
Release Date: Jan 22, 1999
Run Time: 2 hr 1 min
Budget: $17,000,000
(L to R) Leonardo DiCaprio, Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone and Russell Crowe in ‘The Quick and the Dead’. Photo: Sony Pictures Releasing.
A mysterious woman (Sharon Stone) comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman (Gene Hackman).
“Think you’re quick enough?”
Release Date: Feb 9, 1995
Run Time: 1 hr 47 min
Budget: $35,000,000
Liam Neeson in ‘Darkman’. Photo: Universal Pictures.
Dr. Peyton Westlake (Liam Neeson) is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love (Frances McDormand).
“They destroyed everything he had, everything he was. Now, crime has a new enemy and justice has a new face.”
Release Date: Aug 24, 1990
Run Time: 1 hr 35 min
Budget: $14,000,000
Bruce Campbell in ‘The Evil Dead’. Photo: New Line Cinema.
In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they’ve rented for a weekend getaway.
“The ultimate experience in gruelling terror.”
Release Date: Oct 15, 1981
Run Time: 1 hr 25 min
Budget: $350,000
(L to R) Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst in ‘Spider-Man’. Photo: Sony.
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.
“Go for the ultimate spin.”
Release Date: May 3, 2002
Run Time: 2 hr 1 min
Budget: $139,000,000
Bruce Campbell in ‘Evil Dead II’. Photo: Rosebud Releasing Corporation.
Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) and his girlfriend Linda (Denise Bixler) find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from “The Book of the Dead.” As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda’s body.
“Kiss your nerves goodbye!”
Release Date: Mar 13, 1987
Run Time: 1 hr 24 min
Budget: $3,500,000
(L to R) Tobey Maguire and Alfred Molina in ‘Spider-Man 2’. Photo: Sony.
Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock (Alfred Molina). In the meantime, Parker still can’t act on his feelings for Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst), a girl he’s loved since childhood. A certain anger begins to brew in his best friend Harry Osborn (James Franco) as well…
Release Date: Jun 30, 2004
Run Time: 2 hr 7 min
Budget: $200,000,000
Bruce Campbell in ‘Army of Darkness’. Photo: Universal Pictures.
Ash (Bruce Campbell), a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England’s Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead.
“Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.”
Release Date: Feb 19, 1993
Run Time: 1 hr 21 min
Budget: $11,000,000
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