The Best Movies Directed by Sam Raimi
Sam Raimi has pretty much checked off every box in his directorial career. From his humble beginnings working with a skeleton crew and a tiny budget to make The Evil Dead to his reinvention of the superhero film with his Spider-Man trilogy, he's made classics both big and small.
Which leads us to just one question: How do Sam Raimi's films stack up against each other? Do you prefer the ghoulish eccentricity of his Ash saga? (And if so, are you an Evil Dead II stan or is Army of Darkness more your speed?) Did he set a standard even he couldn't top with Spider-Man 2, or did Marvel's playbook bring out the best of him with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness?
Beyond his small-budget horror movies and his massive-budget superhero epics, he's done everything in between, sardonically mastering the art of the modern neo-noir with A Simple Plan, turning the Old West gunslinger mythos into a bonkers live-action cartoon with The Quick and the Dead, and mapping old-school horror onto a superhero origin story template with Darkman.
He's given us a sports movie (For Love of the Game), a supernatural thriller (The Gift), and even went back to his loopy, gross-out, splattery roots with Drag Me to Hell. But which Sam Raimi movie is the best? List below are each of the films Raimi has directed, including both feature films and shorts.
Who has Sam Raimi worked with as a director? Talent includes the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Kevin Costner, and Russell Crowe. Did you have fun voting on this list of Sam Raimi movies? You might also want to vote on our lists of the best Guillermo del Toro and John Landis movies as well.
- 1Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks
- 2Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco
- 3Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker
- Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert
- Released: 1992
- Directed by: Sam Raimi
- 5Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst
- 6Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver