When THE QUICK & THE DEAD failed to make a splash at the box office, Sam Raimi blamed himself. Or rather, he blamed his inability to adapt his filmmaking style to fit the film that he was creating.

This led to some soul searching, after which he directed three dramatic films that are conspicuously void of the type of bold visual flourishes that we've come to expect from Raimi.

After that, he was pulled into a nearly decade long endeavor to bring Spider-Man to the big screen. But that's a story for another day.

In this episode — the conclusion to our Sam Raimi series — we're focusing on the development and production of Raimi's follow-up to the SPIDER-MAN trilogy, his return to the type of Spook-A-Blast films where he made his name: 2009's DRAG ME TO HELL.

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Theme Song: "There's Still a Little Bit of Time, If We Hurry and I Mean Hurry" by Slasher Film Festival Strategy.

This episode was written, produced and edited by Gary Horne, Justin Bishop, and Todd A. Davis.