Mindfire Entertainment

The straight-to-video horror movie market is saturated with nameless actors who could have gone nowhere. The same fate could have awaited the group of college friends behind the 1981 horror film, The Evil Dead. However, as genre fans know, the exact opposite was the case. Star Bruce Campbell, along with director Sam Raimi, started a career that would lead to many more collaborations, much more acclaim, and more fake blood than anyone could have imagined.Bruce Campbell was born in 1958 in Royal Oak, Michigan, and met Raimi in a drama course in high school. They released the original Evil Dead independently in 1981, and while Stephen King was a fan, the rest of the world failed to take note. Luckily, the boys didn’t give up, and went on to remake the film as Evil Dead 2 in 1987. Here, Campbell embraced his love of comedy and satire, and turned the straight-forward horror of the original into something no one could have expected.Campbell reprised his role as hero Ash Williams again in 1993′s Army of Darkness, as well as in recent video games based on the series. He also expanded his oeuvre with as many B-list-or-lower horror/sci-fi movies as he could find, such as Maniac Cop 2, Waxwork II: Lost in Time, Intruder, and many more. He’s also appeared in more mainstream films like Congo (based on the Michael Crichton novel) and all three Spider-Man films directed by his friend Sam Raimi. He’s also gained acclaim on the television series Burn Notice as a spy past his prime, as well as in a recent spoof of his own checkered history: the hilarious My Name is Bruce, where he plays a satirical version of himself. If you want to see more of Bruce, you’ve definitely got a wide selection to choose fromjust be ready for the schlocky horror masterpieces which await you.