Sam Raimi is the highly inventive, American film director, producer, and writer who directed all three Spiderman movies. He first got the attention of film critics and fans when he made the funny, low-budget horror flick The Evil Dead. Ever since he was a kid, he has always been a big fan of movies and was out making short films before age ten with an 8mm camera. Because he was such a big fan of the Three Stooges, much of Raimi’s work involves good friends Robert Tapert and Bruce Campbell as a sort of slapstick team. Besides the Evil dead series, he also directed crime thriller A Simple Plan in 1998, the baseball flick For Love of the Game in 1999, and The Gift in 2000. In 2002 he was able to demonstrate his visual style with the big-budget movie adaptation of the Stan Lee comic book series Spider Man.
