Luke Savage: Sam Raimi interview: Oz, Warcraft, The Shadow, Spider-Man. Den of Geek . Dennis Publishing, 2013. március 7. (Hozzáférés: 2019. január 1.) „...IMDB. They’ve added a name to me, they’ve called me Samuel Marshall Raimi, and I never knew I had a middle name. I have a middle initial, 'M'.”
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Sam Raimi Biography (1959-). Filmreference.com. (Hozzáférés: 2012. március 19.) Source notes Raimi born "in Royal Oak (some sources cite Franklin), MI."
„Sam Raimi: Man behind the mask”, The Independent, 2004. július 15.. [2017. augusztus 6-i dátummal az eredetiből archiválva] (Hozzáférés: 2020. november 23.) „Led by their father, who ran a furniture store, and mother, who owned a lingerie shop, the family became very close after Raimi's elder brother Sander drowned in a swimming pool at the age of 15. Raimi has said of that trauma: 'It colours everything you do for the rest of your life.'”
Aushenker, Michael. Spider-Mensch: The Jewish roots of director Sam Raimi and 'Spider-Man' [archivált változat] (2002. április 25.). Hozzáférés ideje: 2021. december 27. [archiválás ideje: 2005. november 13.] „He was raised by parents of Russian and Hungarian Jewish descent in a Conservative Jewish home that included older brother Ivan, now a screenwriter and physician; younger brother Ted, an actor, and older sister, Andrea.”
Aushenker, Michael. Spider-Mensch: The Jewish roots of director Sam Raimi and 'Spider-Man' [archivált változat] (2002. április 25.). Hozzáférés ideje: 2021. december 27. [archiválás ideje: 2005. november 13.] „He was raised by parents of Russian and Hungarian Jewish descent in a Conservative Jewish home that included older brother Ivan, now a screenwriter and physician; younger brother Ted, an actor, and older sister, Andrea.”
„Sam Raimi: Man behind the mask”, The Independent, 2004. július 15.. [2017. augusztus 6-i dátummal az eredetiből archiválva] (Hozzáférés: 2020. november 23.) „Led by their father, who ran a furniture store, and mother, who owned a lingerie shop, the family became very close after Raimi's elder brother Sander drowned in a swimming pool at the age of 15. Raimi has said of that trauma: 'It colours everything you do for the rest of your life.'”