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The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi

By John Kenneth Muir

Applause Theatre & Cinema Books - 2004
ISBN 1-55783-607-8
$18.95, 342 pages

This book was a blast to read and I enjoyed every page.  It was a lot of fun going back over Sam Raimi's entire career.  It brought back some wonderful memories (I saw all the EVIL DEAD films in the theater) and made me want to go back and watch some of Raimi's films I haven't seen in years.

John Kenneth Muir does a masterful job of assembling the information shared in the book.  On top of that, his thoughts bring insight to Raimi's work.  Muir never bogs the reader down and keeps the pages flowing with details.

Muir gives each Raimi film three hundred & sixty degree attention by covering the perspective of the audience, critics and box office.  Many of the people who worked on the films share their experience and feelings about the director.  What comes across is that Sam Raimi is a passionate, professional film director who has re-invented himself over the course of his career to reach the success he has accomplished today.

The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi is a book every film scholar, aspiring director, horror geek, deadite and Sam Raimi fan absolutely must have.

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