“This is not some cheesy, cigar-chomping producer who is going to crank this thing out ,” Campbell says. The love is also on tap off camera, where Campbell has reunited with childhood friend and the trilogy’s writer-director, Sam Raimi (the man behind the original Spider-Man movies), to make sure that Ash’s return was done right and for the right reasons. So this is the way to give fans a long-lasting stream of Evil Dead.” “In the first season, we’re doing five and a half hours of new material. “This is a love letter to them,” he confesses, explaining that the move to TV delivers way more to the devoted masses than another big-screen sequel. Which is exactly why Campbell is getting groovy with the ghouls again: He knows he has the fans to thank for his career and wants to give them something back. While the crowd that’s rooted for his lothario loser since he first invoked the demonic forces by reading from the mythical Book of the Dead has surely changed over the years, their collective calls for more Ash have not.

Long before he was stealing scenes on USA’s late hit Burn Notice, Campbell and his godlike jaw rose to the sort of cult status some actors eschew, thanks to his tongue-in-cheek turns in the campy horror-coms The Evil Dead (1981), Evil Dead II (1987) and Army of Darkness (1993). Save for maybe his ability to inspire fan loyalty.

Evil Dead (fittingly premiering on Halloween). “He hasn’t changed with the times, that’s for sure!” says Bruce Campbell, happily suiting back up as horror-film icon and dim-witted demon hunter Ashley “Ash” Williams for Starz’s sequel series Ash vs.

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