Your choices:

  • The Evil Dead (1981): Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
  • Crimewave (1985): A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair.
  • Evil Dead II (1987): Ash Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.
  • Darkman (1990): A brilliant scientist left for dead returns to exact revenge on the people who burned him alive.
  • Army of Darkness (1992): When Ash Williams is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., he must retrieve the Necronomicon and battle an army of the dead in order to return home.
  • The Quick and the Dead (1995): A female gunfighter returns to a frontier town where a dueling tournament is being held, which she enters in an effort to avenge her father's death.
  • A Simple Plan (1998): Two brothers and a friend, all blue-collar workers, come across millions of dollars in lost cash and make a plan to keep their find from the authorities, but it isn't long before complications and mistrust weave their way into the plan.
  • For Love of the Game (1999): A Detroit Tigers pitcher handles personal and professional crises.
  • The Gift (2000): Annabelle Wilson, a woman with psychic abilities, tries to find Jessica King, a young socialite who has mysteriously disappeared. While the search continues, she starts to suspect the townspeople.
  • Spider-Man (2002): After being bitten by a genetically-modified spider, a shy teenager gains spider-like abilities that he uses to fight injustice as a masked superhero and face a vengeful enemy.
  • Spider-Man 2 (2004): Peter Parker is beset with troubles in his failing personal life as he battles a former brilliant scientist named Otto Octavius.
  • Spider-Man 3 (2007): A strange black entity from another world bonds with Peter Parker and causes inner turmoil as he contends with new villains, temptations, and revenge.
  • Drag Me to Hell (2009): An ambitious loan officer must find a way to shatter a curse that threatens her soul with damnation.
  • Oz the Great and Powerful (2013): A small-time magician is swept away to an enchanted land and is forced into a power struggle among three witches.
  • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022): Doctor Strange teams up with a mysterious teenage girl who can travel across multiverses, to battle other-universe versions of himself which threaten to wipe out the multiverse. They seek help from the Scarlet Witch, Wong and others.
  • Send Help (2026): When an employee and her insufferable boss become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash, they must overcome past grievances and work together to make it out alive.

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  1. Weird_Style_1134 on

    evil dead 2 is peak raimi and nothing comes close tbh. the way he balances horror and comedy while still making both work is insane – like ash’s hand literally trying to kill him but it’s also hilarious. the camera work in that cabin is unreal too, all those dutch angles and push-ins that became his signature style. darkman is a close second though, liam neeson going absolutely unhinged as a vengeful scientist with synthetic skin was wild for 1990. i actually found a house for sale once that looked exactly like the darkman lab setup in the basement, complete with the weird lighting fixtures – almost put an offer in just for the novelty but my realtor thought i was loosing my mind

  2. fluentinsarcasm on

    For me it will always be between Spider-Man 2 and Evil Dead II.

    Spider-Man for how great the villain is and how much bigger the emotional stakes are. It has an authenticness to it that’s often missing in modern Marvel and superhero content, and he escaped the trappings of his own campiness to make something that effortlessly blends drama, comedy, romance, and action.

    Evil Dead II because of how fucking bold it was to remake your own movie into a comedy of terrors rather than a horror film, and one that is wildly technically and practically impressive at that too. It still holds up well even today.

    I watched Drag Me To Hell again recently and feel it’s easily his most overrated movie.

  3. I guess maybe Simple Plan or Spider-Man 2; I don’t really have a preference.

    Mostly I just wanted to comment to compliment the amount of work that went into gathering and linking and formatting this post. Well done!

  4. Right_Layer_9700 on

    Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2. The first Raimi movies I remember watching in theaters.

  5. Tough to pick just one. Growing up in the late 90s/early 00s that first Spider-Man movie was so good. But when 2 came out, I went to see it with my friends for one of our 11th birthdays and it blew our minds! If that wasn’t enough, finding out about Evil Dead when I was a bit older and realizing it was the same guy was crazy. I can’t pick between Spider-Man 2 and Evil Dead II.

  6. There are some technically better movies, but I have to give my love to *Darkman*. It’s campy and dark in all the right ways. This movie made great use of what my friends and I call the Raimi-cam. It’s been around before *Darkman*, but goddamn, it felt like he just had to get it all out of his system in this movie.

    The scene where one of the stooges tells Payton that he told him everything he knew and then Payton says let’s pretend you didn’t as he murders him has serious “I lied” vibes from *Commando.* Just one of my favorite revenge flicks.

  7. The Quick and the Dead for sure. A classic I can still go back and watch every couple of years.

    Gene Hackman was such a good Villain in this one.

  8. Army of darkness and dark man are classics of my childhood, it’s hard to complete with nostalgia…

  9. StoneWall_MWO on

    I can admit the work to make ED2 is impressive.

    But as movies over art I prefer Army of Darkness and Spider-Man 2.

  10. BitesTheDust55 on

    A Simple Plan is probably his best film

    But my garbage taste would re-watch Oz the Great and Powerful before anything else on the list. Yeah, yeah. I know.

  11. Despite the fact that I literally have an Evil Dead tattoo, every version of every Evildead on every format, and all the original Evil dead and Army Of Darkness toys………………………..Its Dark Man

    Now..the pink elephant..if you please.

  12. truckturner5164 on

    The first Evil Dead movie. I love the low-budget, crazy, DIY spirit of it, even more so after reading Bruce Campbell’s autobiography “If Chins Could Kill”.

  13. Superherochlck0055 on

    I will say Spider-Man that being said I saw Send Help and thought it was really good!!

  14. DisreputablePenguin on

    Army of Darkness has always been my favorite. I don’t know if I’d ever seen a movie like that before. Raimi really leaned into his style and it absolutely worked. I don’t know how to describe it – intentionally unintentionally funny? Whatever it is I love it.

  15. izlerkenbirebir on

    I think I’ll answer that question with Darkman. It’s a great example of a superhero movie not adapted from comic books. That’s a bit rare.

  16. TheThirdStrike on

    *Army of Darkness*

    It holds a special nostalgic place, because it was my first introduction to Raimi and made me look into his other stuff.

  17. Dr Strange in a dead body of another Dr Strange with dead souls as a cape was god damn cool. I don’t care what anyone says.

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