And on paper there was nothing notably wrong with Sam Raimi helming this Wizard of Oz prequel, with James Franco playing con-artist Oscar and Mila Kunis as Theodora. The Evil Dead (1981) The one... the only... the evil... dead! She handpicked Sam Raimi to direct and then went to bat for hot-off-acclaimed-movies Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe. Army of Darkness (1992) The swashbuckling sequel to Evil Dead II (and third Raimi Evil Dead flick overall) transformed Final Boy/Crash Test Dummy Ash Williams into a lovably buffoonish superhero. A Simple Plan is still criminally underseen, not just as a Raimi movie but as one of the best films of the '90s period.