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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