Cross-media picks for Sam Raimi fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
If you love what Sam Raimi does, you already know the feeling: dread that curdles into dark comedy, ordinary people suddenly in over their heads, and supernatural menace lurking just beneath the surface. These picks share that same restless genre-blending — horror edging into absurdity, pulpy action shot through with unease, and a recurring sense that something is very wrong here. Films, series, games, and books, each with that charge fans of Raimi find impossible to resist.
Film
Spider
A fractured mind replaying childhood trauma in a halfway house delivers slow-burn psychological dread.
Film
Guardian
A street-level mystery unravels into something stranger when a new drug called Chaos connects to darker forces.
Film
Eye for an Eye
Grief, isolation, and a mysterious grandmother collide in a small-town horror with real emotional stakes.
Film
Hell and Back
Two best friends descend into hell to rescue their pal — an absurdist animated comedy-adventure.
Film
Ghost
A murdered man's spirit fights to protect his lover from beyond, blending supernatural threat with romance.
Film
Spider-Man
A masked vigilante with new powers races to stop an extortionist threatening mass destruction — pulpy superhero action.
Film
The Fury
A teenager's psychic abilities are exploited by a shadowy government figure in this paranoid sci-fi thriller.
Film
Ash
A survivor on an alien planet can't tell friend from foe, ratcheting psychological and physical terror together.
Series
Black Scorpion
A cop-by-day, vigilante-by-night story pits one woman against a completely corrupt city.
Series
Terror in Resonance
A cryptic terrorist video baffles police as Tokyo reels from a shocking attack in this tightly wound thriller.
Series
s-CRY-ed
A post-catastrophe world where genetic mutations grant powers drives this propulsive action-driven story.
Series
Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom
A Japanese tourist is turned into an assassin by the mysterious syndicate Inferno, blending noir and action.
Series
No. 6
A utopian city-state conceals a nightmare beneath its surface, uncovered when a privileged boy breaks the rules.
Series
Arc the Lad
A young escapee from a covert mutation programme fights back against the organisation that made him.
Series
Now and Again
A dead man's brain in a superhero body must serve the government while secretly pining for his real family.
Series
Touching Evil
A detective whose brain was literally shot returns to work obsessively on the darkest serial cases.
Game
Fatal Frame III: The Tormented
Nightmare visions of a cursed manor creep into waking life as a woman unravels its supernatural secrets.
Game
The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
Soldiers and enemies trapped underground in a Sumerian temple face something far worse than each other.
Game
Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh
A man fresh from a mental institution finds his grip on reality slipping again in this dark psychological adventure.
Game
Spider-Man 2: The Game
New York hangs in the balance as Spider-Man faces his most dangerous enemy yet in this action-packed sequel.
Game
Amid Evil
Seven wildly different episodes of ludicrous magical weaponry and relentless enemies in a retro FPS rampage.
Game
Blues and Bullets
Eliot Ness is dragged back into a corrupt city's darkness in this brooding noir detective story.
Game
The Suffering: Ties That Bind
Inner demons made literal haunt a man fighting street-level evil in a city that feels like a living prison.
Game
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
Travis returns for revenge after his best friend is murdered, cutting through ranked assassins to reach the top.
Book
Iron cast
Two "afflicted" illusionists run cons in a Prohibition-era gangster club until the law closes in on them.
Book
Horrorween
A small town haunted by the Lord of Death himself makes for folk-horror dread with an autumnal chill.
Book
Ghost night
A slasher turned real on a remote island film set blurs the line between horror fiction and brutal fact.
Book
Bloodstained Oz
A horror novella that twists *The Wizard of Oz* into something grim and bloodstained.
Book
The quick and the dead
Three motherless teenagers navigate a sun-bleached American landscape full of eccentric, unsettling signs.
Book
Ace in the Hole
A religious fanatic targets Jokers at a 1988 political convention in this pulpy, high-stakes Wild Cards tale.
Book
What Moves the Dead
A retired soldier races to a dying friend's ancestral home and finds fungal horror beyond imagining.
Book
After the First Death
A man wakes in a cheap hotel fearing he has killed again — a noir spiral of alcoholic blackouts and dread.
Start with Ash, a paranoid sci-fi horror about a survivor who can't trust her rescuer, or The Fury, a relentless thriller about psychic abilities exploited by a shadowy agency — both capture that blend of dread and propulsive energy.
What Moves the Dead is a gothic fungal-horror novella perfect for fans who love creeping supernatural dread, while Horrorween leans into folk-horror territory with a small town ruled by the Lord of Death himself.
Fatal Frame III: The Tormented pulls you through nightmare visions and a cursed manor in exactly the way a great horror film would, and The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes traps soldiers underground with ancient evil.