Sam Raimi
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"Samuel M "Sam" Raimi" is an American film director, producer, writer and actor, famous for directing the cult horror comedy The Evil Dead (franchise)/Evil Dead series, the superhero film Darkman, and the original Spider-Man trilogy/Spider-Man trilogy (2002-2007); his most recent work is 2013's fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful. Raimi has produced several successful television series and is the founder of Renaissance Pictures. Recently, he worked as the producer of The Possession, and the Evil Dead (2013 film)/2013 remake of Evil Dead. He is currently working on a film adaption of the critically acclaimed video game The Last of Us.

He is the older brother of actor Ted Raimi and the younger brother of screenwriter Ivan Raimi.

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That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

When you make the audience the critic, though, when you start asking them to speak about the film, all these weird moments that are way out of the ordinary, that we do a lot of in our pictures, they don't hold up to critical analysis from an untrained professional critic very well.

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

It seemed like in the States, you could make a cheap movie if it was a horror movie, and it could look crumby without production value and still be effective for a sale, the audience would still be frightened by it and they wouldn't react badly to its cheap quality. So that's why we made a horror movie.

I said to my agent, 'Is there any way I can get on the list to direct this thing?

I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.

Nowadays everyone's got the nose rings and the colored hair, so for me to wear the suit and tie is a different way to go.

[Beginning at 2 p.m., fans were treated to a horror-film convention, including collectibles for sale and special guests signing autographs. At night, however, the Flashback Weekend truly came to new life with a dusk-to-dawn film festival, including Wes Craven's] The Last House on the Left ... Evil Dead II.