Bay Area movie theater celebrates top director with amazing slate of films

Alamo Drafthouse is saluting the great Sam Raimi throughout the month of February.

Organizers are calling it “FEBURAIMI” — and local fans of the acclaimed filmmaker can certainly hope that this will become an annual celebration at the fantastic movie theater in San Francisco’s Mission District.

The theater will be showing Raimi movies during their two popular weekly series — Terror Tuesday and Weird Wednesday. And all films are being shown on 35 mm.

The Raimi run kicks off — as it absolutely should — with the 1981 cult classic “Evil Dead” on Feb. 6. Gore hounds can actually watch the full “Evil Dead” trilogy, as Alamo also plans to screen “Evil Dead II” on Feb. 13 and “Army of Darkness” on Feb. 20.

Groovy, indeed.

Other Raimi movies being shown during “FEBURAIMI” are “Darkman,” “The Hudsucker Proxy,” “The Quick and the Dead,” “The Gift” and “A Simple Plan.”

(No, the theater isn’t showing any of Raimi’s three incredibly popular “Spider-Man” flicks. But that’s OK. We’d rather watch the bizarre superhero movie “Darkman” instead.)

Visit drafthouse.com/sf for more information.

“Darkman” (1990) is one of the films beings shown during “FEBRURAIMI,” a monthlong celebration of filmmaker Sam Raimi at the Alamo Drafthouse in San Francisco. (Courtesy Alamo Drafthouse)