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- Army of Darkness. Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert. 250 votes. In the captivating genre-blender, Army of Darkness, Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) finds himself transported to 1300 AD.
- Evil Dead II. Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks. 234 votes. Evil Dead II, a sequel that straddles the line between horror and comedy, sees Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) returning to the screen.
- The Evil Dead. Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker. 197 votes. Five college students, led by Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell), stumble upon an isolated cabin in the heart of a dense, eerie forest.
- Bubba Ho-Tep. Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Bob Ivy. 201 votes. After falling into a lengthy coma following a freak accident involving hip gyration, a now aged Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) wakes up in an East Texas nursing home, where he befriends Jack (Ossie Davis), an African-American senior who claims to be President John F. Kennedy.
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- Middle Ages Ash, Army of Darkness (1992) Army of Darkness is the conclusive installment of The Evil Dead franchise with the ultimate version of Campbell's Ash.
- Elvis Presley, Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) If not for a certain character's unexpected excursion to the Middle Ages, Bubba Ho-Tep's Elvis Presley would likely be at the top of this list.
- "Groovy" Ash, Evil Dead II (1987) Evil Dead II not only resurrected Ash Williams, but The Evil Dead sequel sent the character on a whole new trajectory.
- Sam Axe, Burn Notice (2007–2013) Burn Notice became one of the must-sees on 2000s television, thanks to the trinity of lead characters portrayed by Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, and Campbell.
- 10 The Spider-Man Trilogy
- 9 My Name Is Bruce
- 8 Moontrap
- 7 Bubba Ho-Tep
- 6 Maniac Cop
- 5 The Hudsucker Proxy
- 4 Mindwarp
- 3 Army of Darkness
- 2 The Evil Dead
- 1 Evil Dead II
This one's kind of cheating, so we included all three. Playing the roles of 'Wrestling Announcer,' 'Snooty Theatre Usher,' and 'French Waiter' respectively, Bruce Campbell's scenes in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy may seem like mere throwaway moments of fun. Don't shoot down their impact, though; in an interview for CinemaBlend, Campbell notes t...
This is a bit of a weird one. Not only did Campbell star in My Name is Bruce; he produced and directed it, too. In some ways, it's a total disaster of a film, but this should not be taken as a reason to write it off completely. For fans of its lead actor and director, it has a lot to offer: a schlocky, silly story in which Campbell plays himself; a...
With puppets, bad sets, and rough acting, Moontrap is a '60s B-movie with 1980s effects. Campbell looks extremely fresh-faced as the co-pilot to (OGStar Trek's Chekov) Walter Koenig's captain, who discovers an alien pod concealing a robot that requires human flesh to live. With a home base on the moon, the two need to stop these aliens before they ...
So this one's really just delightfully weird. Campbell plays Elvis Presley, who must stop a mummy from killing him and his friends (including a Black John F. Kennedy) and feeding on their souls. Despite its ridiculous,"how did this get made?" feel, Bruce Campbell puts in one of the best performances of his career as a more than believable Elvis fac...
Thanks to the movie's opener of an innocent woman being killed by a police officer, Maniac Cop sits uncomfortably in the current political climate, and may be said to have aged poorly. However, looking at it purely as a schlocky, violent movie, Maniac Cop is a gleefully entertaining and twisted flick. The cinematography is superb here, offering a v...
This underrated gem from director duo Joel and Ethan Coen features Campbell in a small but memorable role as Smitty, a goofy reporter with the Manhattan Argus. When star journalist Amy Archer gets assigned a story on Hudsucker Industries' new and wildly incompetent president, Smitty is there to help her along. It's likely that Campbell was brought ...
Mindwarp is a little-known '90s movie that feels like Total Recall in the world of Mad Max. Be warned, even in a list of movies featuring every Evil Dead film, Mindwarp is incredibly bloody, with some true moments of watch-from-behind-your-fingers terror. Forgive the "is it all a dream?" twists, and Mindwarp is a fun, nasty movie that has to be see...
TheEvil Dead series went 'big-picture studio' here: it's a movie that retires the cabin setting and transports us back in time to a land of knights, wizards, and skeleton armies. Army of Darkness takes the franchise into truly unexpected, weird fantasy territory; queue the curses, magic books, and swordplay, coupled with Campbell's oafish Ash, and ...
The first Evil Dead is the seminal dumb-kids-in-a-cabin-in-the-woods movie that the horror genre has been taking notes from ever since. Evil Deadis a masterclass in DIY, low-budget filmmaking, and, unlike its sequel, focuses on pure terror, dreadful "Deadites," and grotesque physical effects. Its stripped-back and incredibly simplistic premise is e...
How can a sequel be this good? Evil Dead 2ups the ante in every single way, and adds a brand-new element to the series (and to the horror genre as a whole): the decision to add slapstick comedy to what should be a bleak and horrifying place. The broad comedy here shouldn't work, but its total reinvention of the first film is inspired. Further, its ...
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- The Evil Dead Movies (1981-1992) A supermarket employee (Bruce Campbell) must defend himself and others against malevolent, possessive spirits in a secluded log cabin - and, later, in the Middle Ages - after accidentally awakening them with a book bound in human flesh and inked in human blood.
- Ash Vs. Evil Dead (2015-2018) A middle-aged, underachieving Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) teams up with his co-workers, Pablo (Ray Santiago) and Kelly (Dana DeLorenzo), to save the world after he accidentally awakens those malevolent, possessive Deadites once again.
- Maniac Cop (1988) An aging, hard-nosed detective (Tom Atkins) teams up with a disgraced, younger officer (Bruce Campbell) to stop the brutal killing spree of a murderer dressed in a police uniform in New York City.
- Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) Years after switching identities with one of his impersonators to escape the pressures of fame, Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) and a Black man who claims to be the real John F. Kennedy (Ossie Davis) team-up to stop an evil Egyptian mummy from claiming the souls of fellow residents at their nursing home in Texas.
My Name Is Bruce (2007) R | 84 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror. Mistaken for his character Ash from the 'Evil Dead' trilogy, Bruce Campbell is forced to fight a real monster in a small Oregon town. Director: Bruce Campbell | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Grace Thorsen, Taylor Sharpe, Ted Raimi. Votes: 25,143 | Gross: $0.17M.
Jun 1, 2022 · 2. Bubba Ho-Tep. Playing Elvis Presley, Campbell might do one of the best jobs of portraying the iconic singer and actor than anyone else (in an Elvis movie that includes a mummy). He leans into ...
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Jul 16, 2015 · L.A. For some reason though, Bruce has never really caught the breaks that his acting ability, comic timing and giant chin should have generated. He remains relatively unknown beyond his solid ...
