Mine's Scarier Than Yours! -
8.4/10 with 37 votes
In the movie, Evil Dead, there's a shot of the basement of the cabin thry're in. On the rear wall is a poster for Wes Craven's film, The Hills Have Eyes, but the poster is torn in half. Sam Raimi put this there as if to say, " Hey Wes, your's was pretty...
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'The Classic' -
7.8/10 with 17 votes
Same Raimi's family car, a 1973 Oldsmobile Delta Royale that he refers to as 'the classic', appears in every one of his films. It was Ash's car in 'The Evil Dead' series, it was Darkman's car, and most recently it provided transport for Peter Parker's...
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7.5/10 with 22 votes
In his films, Raimi puts a little reference to his childhood: a t-shirt from Camp Tamakwa, his childhood summer camp. The only one I've spotted so far is hanging in the closet in Evil Dead II, when Professor Knowby's ghost speaks to Ash, Bobbie Joe,...
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Yet Another: Klaatu Barada Nikto -
7.2/10 with 28 votes
Sam Raimi directed the movie, "Army of Darkness." Within this film, the phrase, "klaatu barada nikto" was used to destroy the Book of the Dead. This was a reference to "The day the Earth Stood Still." (See "Army of Darkness" Easter Egg.)
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Homage to the Third Stooge -
6.9/10 with 14 votes
Watch the credits carefully as they scroll for the actor or actors credited as the "Shemp" or the "Fake Shemp". Raimi is a huge fan of the Three Stooges (many of his movies use sequences very reminiscent of classic Stooge shorts), and by the "Shemp" credit...
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Talk About Yer Nepotism... -
6.6/10 with 17 votes
Sam inevitably casts his brother Ted in everything he does, sometimes in multiple sequences. You can see Ted at least three times in Army of Darkness, for instance: he's one of the soldiers that pledges his allegiance to Ash, _and_ he's the S-Mart clerk...
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Raimi Camoe -
1.5/10 with 2 votes
At the part where peter parker bends over to get his books he gets hit by a passing student's his book bag in the head. Though it never shows the students face,the person was non other than director of the of the both Spiderman movies. If you look at...
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