Sam Raimi's worst ever job was delivering washing machines and mattresses to "creepy people in scary places".
The 66-year-old filmmaker made his name and reputation with the cult classic 1981 supernatural horror The Evil Dead which he followed with two sequels, and other critical and commercial successes such as Darkman (1990), The Quick and the Dead (1995) and his 2000s Spider-Man trilogy, which starred Tobey Maguire as the webslinger.
Sam's life before filmmaking saw him take a manual job delivering the home appliance and although he didn't mind the work it was the odd houses and people he had to deal with on a daily basis that made the role unbearable.
In an interview with website Dread Central, he said: "First one was loading washing machines and mattresses from a warehouse and bringing them to people’s homes. There was always unexpected things in these people’s homes, like weirdness going on or incredible kindness. I remember some woman showed me her grape vines that were in an arbour over an outdoor little plastic table in her backyard. It was beautiful, and she took such pride in it and made me homemade coffee. But the bad things - that job also had its horrors, too. I mean, meeting creepy people in scary places where they don’t care to meet you."
Sam's latest film is Send Help which follows the struggle for survival for financial strategist and survival enthusiast Linda Liddle - played by Rachel McAdams - who ends up stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash with her Nepo baby boss Bradley Preston (Dylan O'Brien) who, despite promising her a promotion, is going to get rid of her in favour of his boys club from the golf course.
Raimi admits Linda's soul-crushing job and backstory has similarities with the protagonist Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) from his 2009 horror film Drag Me To Hell, whilst both movies want to creep you out and make you laugh.
He said: "Well, they both are trying to create moments of eeriness. Both want to make you laugh. Both want to scare you. Both want you to invest deeply in the main character, even though Drag Me To Hell is more of a horror tale, and this is more of a survival story. Genres are different, but they both really want you to identify with the main character, one who is not so lucky, and one who’s a little more lucky, but woe to us for who survives. And I won’t say which one."
