The Quick and the Dead (1995)
Directed by Sam Raimi
A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.
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And Shaun references not only Romero’s gruesome series, but also Star Wars, the see-through-body bullet holes in Sam Raimi’s The Quick and the Dead and Robert Zemeckis’ Death Becomes Her, Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later and the 1999 British TV series Spaced (on which Pegg, Frost and Wright first teamed).
Or is it just something Marcus Nispel saw Sam Raimi do in The Quick and the Dead (a send-up of Western shootouts) and thought would be cool to do in his horror movie?
He’s like Gene Autry, if Gene Autry starred in Sam Raimi’s The Quick and the Dead .
But when you think of "a Sam Raimi Film," you think about the underrated "Darkman," the offbeat "The Quick and the Dead," the over-the-top "Army of Darkness" -- Looney Tunes action, slapstick violence and a few nyuk-nyuk punchlines.
This is how the very quirky, handmade style of films such as The Evil Dead, DARKMAN and even The Quick and the Dead suddenly gave way to the incredibly impersonal style of both A Simple Plan and the maudlin sports opera For Love of the Game.
Movies like "Darkman" and his Spaghetti-O western "The Quick and the Dead" were hard to take seriously.
Since then he's directed a western ("The Quick and the Dead"), a crime drama (the brilliant, vastly underrated "A Simple Plan"), a baseball movie ("For the Love of the Game") and ... what else was there?
In the '90s he branched out into films with stars, largely away from horror: The Quick and the Dead, A Simple Plan, For Love of the Game, The Gift.
Yes, after The Evil Dead, he quickly took on studio work, and even before the Spider-Man trilogy made billions worldwide, his name was already attached to a host of incongruous titles—The Quick and the Dead, A Simple Plan, For Love of the Game.
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Raimi enlivened the 1980s by helming a trio of energetic, low-budget genre pictures before his peak period in the 90s with the wildly entertaining Darkman, Army of Darkness and The Quick and the Dead, followed by the masterfully controlled A Simple Plan.
Fans of the insanity of “Army of Darkness” and “The Quick and the Dead” will love these unexpected dashes of Raimi goodness in their MCU movie but may be annoyed by the retreats into Marvel’s formula.