History Creator / SamRaimi

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Creator/BruceCampbell and Creator/RobertTapert.
* JustForFun/OneOfUs: Raimi was a big fan of superhero comics since his childhood, particularly the Stan Lee-Jack Kirby-Steve Dikto era of Marvel Comics (which was roughly contemporary ''to'' his childhood). This actually makes him something of an outlier compared to other early superhero film directors such as (Creator/TimBurton and Creator/RichardDonner) who claim to have a much more surface-level knowledge of the source material.

** Per his memoirs, Raimi once weaponised this on the set of ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead'' against a visiting Bruce Campbell, pressganging him into appearing in a cameo and verbally berating him in front of the cast and crew, all in order to placate Creator/PatHingle's request for a specific scene where he avenges the honour of his character's daughter... [[SnipeHunt which he never intended to use in the finished film anyway.]]

** Per his memoirs, Raimi once weaponised this on the set of ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead against a visiting Bruce Campbell, pressganging him into appearing in a cameo and verbally berating him in front of the cast and crew, all in order to placate Creator/PatHingle's request for a specific scene where he avenges the honour of his character's daughter... [[SnipeHunt which he never intended to use in the finished film anyway.]]

* GenreRoulette: Raimi has made an effort to be diverse as possible with his films. Accordingly, he has directed a incredible number of genres and often blends them in the ''same'' movie. To that end, he's regarded as one of the Founding Fathers of the modern HorrorComedy genre (along with Creator/PeterJackson), and ''Film/SpiderMan1'' is credited for marshalling the modern age of comic book movies (along with 2000's ''Film/XMen''), although he's also successfully dabbled in straight drama, crime and supernatural thrillers and even ''Westerns''.

* CreatorThumbprint: "The Classic," a yellow 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 that Raimi has had since before he began directing. He tries to get it into every one of his movies, to the point that Bruce Campbell claimed in his autobiography that the car was in even more movies than he has been. Its most famous appearances were as the car for both [[Film/EvilDead Ash Williams]] and [[Film/SpiderMan1 Benjamin Parker]].

Samuel Marshall Raimi (born October 23, 1959 in Royal Oak, Michigan) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.

* GenreRoulette: Raimi has made an effort to be diverse as possible with his films. Accordingly, he has directed a incredible number of genres and often blends them in the ''same'' movie. To that end, he's regarded as one of the Founding Fathers of the modern HorrorComedy genre (along with Creator/PeterJackson), and ''Film/SpiderMan'' is credited for marshalling the modern age of comic book movies (along with 2000's ''Film/XMen''), although he's also successfully dabbled in straight drama, crime and supernatural thrillers and even ''Westerns''.

* GenreRoulette: Raimi has made an effort to be diverse as possible with his films. Accordingly, he has directed a incredible number of genres and often blends them in the ''same'' movie. To that end, he's regarded as one of the Founding Fathers of the modern HorrorComedy genre (along with Creator/Peter Jackson), and ''Film/SpiderMan'' is credited for marshalling the modern age of comic book movies (along with 2000's ''Film/XMen''), although he's also successfully dabbled in straight drama, crime and supernatural thrillers and even ''Westerns''.

Samuel Marshall Raimi (born October 23, 1959) is an American filmmaker, producer and actor.

* BeingGoodSucks: His central theme of his Spider-Man trilogy is that Peter must do what is right no matter what, at the cost of all of his personal relationships and happiness. Downright ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne for Ash as by Evil Dead II onwards Ash comes to realize that his life is cursed to always be haunted by the Deadites.

** Adores torturing Bruce Campbell in his movies. Most recently his cameo in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness had Doctor Strange curse Campbell into punching himself for days. Has jokingly said the best way to get a good performance out of Bruce is to poke him with a stick.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Part of the central theme for many of his horror movies and arguably even A Simple Plan. You go to a cabin in the woods and play some weird tape deck? '''Everyone dies.''' You turn down an extension on a loan? '''Burn in Hell for all of eternity.''' Find a plane that has a briefcase full of money? '''Kill everyone and burn the money.''' Though, what does separate Raimi from other filmmakers is he's much more empathetic to the characters and deconstructing audiences desires to see characters be severely punished for wrongdoing.
* DutchAngle: Used prominently throughout the Evil Dead films and also in his other works.
* FakeShemp: TropeNamer when it came to the Evil Dead films. Based after the technique [[TropeCodifier codified]] in [[Film/TheThreeStooges Three Stooges Shorts.]]
* GenreRoulette: Raimi has made an effort to be diverse as possible with his films. Accordingly he has directed a incredible number of genres and often blends them in the ''same'' movie.

* POVCam: He often likes putting the camera from the point of view of some evil force stalking or attacking the characters. See: [[Franchise/EvilDead Deadites]], [[Film/SpiderMan3 the Venom Symbiote]], and [[Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness the Scarlet Witch]].

* StartMyOwn: His failure to take over directing ''Batman'' from Tim Burton resulted in him creating and making ''Darkman''.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Creator/BruceCampbell.

* OldShame: He hasn't exactly considered ''Crimewave'' one of his proudest works, given the production problems surrounding the film.

* ''Film/ThouShaltNotKillExcept'' (1985, actor)

* ''Film/TheHudsuckerProxy'' (1994 - co-wrote with Creator/TheCoenBrothers and served as second unit director.)

* SignatureStyle: His most notable trademark is blending horror, drama and camp, particularly with gross BodyHorror swinging wildly between both. His films are stylized audience pleasing films meant primarily for entertainment value.

* SignatureStyle: His most notable trademark is blending horror, drama and comedy, particularly with gross BodyHorror swinging wildly between both.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: In spite of the many goofy, campy, and lighthearted moments in his films, Raimi is generally pretty far down on the cynical end of the scale, with ''Film/DragMeToHell'' in particular being infamous for its brutally mean-spirited tone. That said, the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' is well-noted for its overall idealistic, heartfelt nature, despite how much it loves putting its characters through the wringer.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Generally pretty far down on the cynical end of the scale, with ''Film/DragMeToHell'' in particular being infamous for its brutally mean-spirited tone. That said, the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' is well-noted for its overall idealistic, heartfelt nature, despite how much it loves putting its characters through the wringer.

* BeingGoodSucks: His central theme of his Spider-Man trilogy is that Peter must do what is right no matter what, at the cost of all of his personal relationships and happiness. Downright BeingTheChosenOneSucks for Ash as by Evil Dead II onwards Ash comes to realize that his life is cursed to always be haunted by the Deadites.