He turned Spiderman into a dollar factory of epic proportions and with Drag Me to Hell shows he can knock up a proper modern horror flick just as well as anyone. Yet once upon a time, back in the '80s when he and a few chums splattered the brilliant, hilarious (and if you haven't yet seen it not-to-be-missed) Evil Dead across the cinema screens of the United Kingdom, Sam Raimi was considered a corrupting influence, a purveyor of the "video nasty," far from the highly regarded, Hollywood institution he is today. Yet it is in those very earliest moments of his rise to glory that the great responsibility of great power was first revealed.
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