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12. Evil Dead

When childhood friends Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell decided to make a movie, they had no idea what they were getting themselves into. With Raimi writing and directing, Campbell starring, a location shoot at an abandoned cabin in the Tennessee forest, and a meager budget, on came the rise of The Evil Dead. It’s considered among the greatest horror films of all time, because it broke the horror mold by melding it with comedic elements. It had so many horror tropes — a cabin in the woods, an Indian burial ground, incantations from a mystical book, co-stars that turn evil, a hero that barely survives — but it remixed them with witty one-liners and slapstick physical humor. One rave review later (from a certain horrorfilm has ever recorded. Also setting this trilogy apart is the fact that its two stars wrote or rewrote most of the dialogue from all three movies, which is at least part of the reason the movie feels so natural and real. Writer/director Richard Linklater has given the theater plenty of great movies, but the Before trilogy stands alone as an exquisite work of art.

10. Mad Max

Before Katniss Everdeen, Caesar the ape, or Neo, before even Sarah Connor or Snake Plissken, and long before post-apocalyptic dystopian drama was all the rage… George Miller gave us Max.

In 1979, Mad Max introduced cinephiles to Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson, in his first major role), an ex-cop and a wanderer across the wastelands of Australia after society has collapsed and resources become