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4) Army of Darkness (1992)

Most filmmakers could die happy knowing they’d made a near-perfect film like Army of Darkness—the third in the Evil Dead series, it sends Bruce Campbell’s reluctantly heroic Ash Williams back to the Middle Ages, where proves just as adept and also inept (“Klaatu! Badada! … Necktie?”) at fighting the demonic undead. But most filmmakers aren’t Sam Raimi, which is why Army of Darkness is merely number four on this list.