Creator of the award-winning web series, Abnormal Fixation. One of the horror genre's "most widely read critics" (Rue Morgue # 68), "an accomplished film journalist" (Comic Buyer's Guide #1535), and the award-winning author of Horror Films of the 1980s (2007) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002), John Kenneth Muir, presents his blog on film, television and nostalgia, named one of the Top 100 Film Studies Blog on the Net.
Showing posts with label Sam Raimi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sam Raimi. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Movie Trailer: Poltergeist (2015)
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2015,
horror remakes,
movie trailer,
Poltergeist,
re-imagination,
Sam Raimi,
Steven Spielberg
Thursday, February 05, 2015
Coming Soon: Poltergeist (2015)
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2015,
movie trailer,
Poltergeist,
Sam Raimi
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
At Flashback -- "Come on Pip Squeak, We’re Saving a Seat for You: The Five Most Underrated Films of Sam Raimi"
At Flashbak, my latest article has been posted. It is called "Come on Pip Squeak, We’re Saving a Seat for You," and it weighs the five most underrated films from Sam Raimi's canon.
Here's a snippet (and the url: http://flashbak.com/come-on-pip-squeak-were-saving-a-seat-for-you-the-5-most-underrated-films-of-sam-raimi-17772/ )
Sam
Raimi began his career making low-budget horror films such as The
Evil Dead (1993) before moving to expensive blockbusters such as Spider-Man
(2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007). Raimi’s long movie-making career also encompasses
award-winning thrillers such as A Simple Plan (1998) and cult-movies
such as Army of Darkness (1993). In 1999, he also made the baseball love-story, For
Love of the Game.
But
like virtually all filmmakers, Raimi’s career has also included several films
that -- for whatever reason -- didn’t garner the popular or critical success of
others, even though they were quite good, or at the very least, inventive and
ambitious.
With
that thought in mind, I present my list of Sam Raimi’s top five underrated
films (in chronological order)..."
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