During the ’60s, Akira Kurasawa had two of his Samauri films adapted into Westerns. His masterpiece Seven Samauri became the Magnificent Seven with Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and more. It was a major hit. Unbeknownst to Kurasawa at the time, Sergio Leone used his Yojimbo as the basis of Fistful of Dollars with Clint Eastwood. … Read more
One day in 1979, childhood friends Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi went to a cabin in rustic Northern Michigan to shoot a horror short. That 32-minute movie, Within the Woods, became the duo’s calling card, earning them enough funding from local business people to shoot a full length film called
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