The one movie Sam Raimi has always been desperate to make: “One day I’d love to”Very few directors can say they have innovated an entire genre of cinema, and Sam Raimi can say he’s done that twice. Maxwell Grant, I think, was the creator, and I read a few of his books, or I guess they’d be pulp magazines, but I read the reprinted books. He also told a story about the author involving legendary magician Harry Houdini, who also served as an inspiration for the character, recalling, “They were apparently going to a Broadway show, Houdini and Maxwell Grant. And he turned to Maxwell Grant and says, ‘If you ever tell anyone about this I’ll kill you!’” It’s fun in a campy, actually-a-bit-shit kind of way, and it was a total box office flop; turns out Raimi dodged a bullet in the end.