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. (more…)
August 25, 2010
The life and times of Bruce Campbell, horror actor extraordinaire
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