Ash is back: protector of humanity, true ladies' man, slayer of deadites, S-Mart employee of the month. In 1981, director Sam Raimi and actor Bruce Campbell changed the face of horror with the schlocky, ugly and downright hilarious B-movie that is Evil Dead. Then they did it again, six years later, with the chaotic masterpiece that is Evil Dead II. These two films saw Ash, a normal guy with a poor taste in holiday destinations, having to slaughter his friends and girlfriends after they became consumed by the evil souls that haunt the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis. They rounded off the trilogy with the flawed but truly hilarious action film Army Of Darkness (1991), in which the noble hero of the first two films heads back in time and rescues Medieval civilisation from the terrors of the Evil Dead. While Raimi returned to the franchise with a remake in 2013 and Campbell played a "real life" version of Ash in My Name Is Bruce in 2007, far more exciting for fans of the original trilogy was the announcement that they would be continuing the original story with a television show in the autumn of 2015: Ash Vs. Evil Dead. Finally, gloriously, the trailer has finally arrived, and there are some things to get very excited about...
6. Bruce Campbell Looks In Great Form
It has been known since the show's announcement that Campbell would be starring, which is naturally exciting for fans of the original films (but then, who else could play Ash with such giant-chin-bearing aplomb?). The trailer leaves fans in no doubt about the fact that he is absolutely back on form. One of the first images shown is Ash forcing himself into a corset and admiring his "slim" form in the mirror. This show is clearly not going to go easy on the weight/age jokes. What is interesting is that Ash seems to show the signs of many of Campbell's roles since the original trilogy, not least smooth-talking Sam Axe from Burn Notice, his various Spider-Man cameos, and the self-absorbed Bruce himself in My Name Is Bruce. This isn't a bad thing. Ash is an excellent character, and it's great to see Campbell using his experience to make a "heroic" figure like Ash compatible with his... Ahem... More "experienced" look nowadays.