It's Murder!

It's Murder!
Film poster
Directed by	Sam Raimi
Written by	Sam Raimi Scott Spiegel
Produced by	Sam Raimi Scott Spiegel
Starring	Scott Spiegel Sam Raimi Bruce Campbell Ted Raimi
Cinematography	Bruce Campbell John Cameron Mike Ditz Ted Raimi
Distributed by	Sam Raimi
Release date	January 5, 1979 (1979-01-05)(Beverly Hills, Michigan)
Running time	70 minutes
Language	English

It's Murder! is a 1979 ^[i] amateur Super 8 crime comedy film directed by Sam Raimi while he was a student at Wylie E. Groves High School and Michigan State University. It was co-written and produced by Raimi and Scott Spiegel, and stars both Raimi and Spiegel alongside their frequent collaborator Bruce Campbell. Raimi's first feature-length film, it was screened publicly at both Groves High School and MSU, but was never distributed commercially.

Plot

The film tells the story of a family whose uncle is murdered. The son (Sam Raimi) gets everything because he is in the will. A detective (Scott Spiegel) is trying to find out who murdered the uncle while avoiding ending up dead as well.

Cast

• Scott Spiegel
• Sam Raimi
• Cheryl Guttridge
• Richard Smith
• Matt Taylor
• Bill Aaron
• Ted Raimi
• Bruce Campbell
• Ivan M. Raimi
• William E. Kirk
• Robert Tapert
• Tim Quill
• Jon Page
• Josh Becker
• Bill Ward
• Paul Krispin
• Clay Warnock
• Mike Ditz

Production

Raimi, Spiegel, Campbell and company all started making films in high school and began making It's Murder! before they graduated, working with Raimi's brother's roommate, Robert Tapert. It was shot on Super 8 film with a budget of $2,000. ^[1]

References

1. Kate Egan, The Evil Dead, Columbia University Press - 2011, page 9

1. The film is listed as a 1977 release in many online databases, but this information is unsourced. The poster promoting the premiere of the film gives the dates of Friday the 5th and Saturday the 6th of January, which can only be in the year 1979. The same poster declares that the filmmakers are Wylie E. Groves High School graduates, which dates the completion of the film sometime after graduation.

External links

• It's Murder! at IMDb
• It's Murder! at BookOfTheDead.ws