Bruce Campbell Filmography

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So as I said on here before, I am currently going through Bruce's filmography and then write about it on r/BruceCampbell each week. So I thought it would be cool to have one thread where we could discuss all of his projects outside of Evil Dead. What we've been watching/rewatching, what we want to watch, etc.

Last week I watched Waxwork II from 1992 where Bruce has a small role which kinda made me laugh because as I was watching the movie, it felt to me as if they put Bruce in just out of obligation so that him or Sam wouldn't sue the filmmakers for the scene where the protagonist is being attacked by a severed hand in a kitchen.

This week I want to do Eddie Presley, also from 1992. Originally I wanted to skip it because it's a very obscure movie that's very hard (if not impossible) to find and that Bruce only has a very small cameo in. But what I found interesting about that movie is that Bruce shares his cameo with non other that Quentin Tarantino, just before or right around his breakthrough with Reservoir Dogs. And I find this pairing even more interesting since clearly they've been in this movie together and Tarantino also loves the Evil Dead movies, yet, at least to my knowledge, he didn't work with Bruce ever since. Like Bruce does have a cameo in From Dusk Till Dawn 2, but I'd say that's because of Scott Spiegel rather than Tarantino.

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So does anybody know anything more about this flick and the Tarantino connection? I think Bruce might have talked about it in If Chins Could Kill, but as I was skimming the book yesterday, I couldn't find anything.
 
Interesting! Had no idea they shared a brief scene. Not sure of the details behind Eddie Presley, but it seems there was a bit of crossover between the Raimi and Tarantino camps in the late 80s/early 90s - usually due to the Spiegel connection as mentioned. Bruce's cameo alongside Lawrence Bender at the end of Intruder comes to mind.

So does this snarky 1992 interview with Tarantino that Josh Becker did, where he describes Tarantino as a "goofy-looking guy with a sunken mouth that looked like he wore dentures" and then goes on to have a vaguely uncomfortable back-and-forth of film nerd one-upmanship about aspect ratios with him.

...also, while writing this, I just discovered another interview with Becker from 2021 where he references that Tarantino interview again: "I probably should get that article taken down off the web. It's probably wrong of me to have that up. I interviewed QT on the set of Reservoir Dogs, and I just found him really pretentious and funny looking and no one had ever heard of him yet!". LOL. He tried walking it back, then immediately undercut it by insulting his appearance at the end of the sentence. RIP.
 
You've reminded me to sub to r bc on reddit!

Also I think they both did this for Josh Becker as a favor per Bruce.
 
I remember when I got my DVD version of The Necronomicon in 2004 and it came with a bonus disc which had a short movie with Bruce Campbell as lead . Think it was called Running Time , without looking it up.
Was about 60-70 mins long and was One continuous short filmed on one camera. Bruce comes out of prison to do one last big score. I highly recommend it. Best line ever from Bruce as he is leaving prison upon release ... " I'll Be sure to check in all your wife's" says something along them lines. Classic Bruce.
 
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Groovy-G said:
I remember when I got my DVD version of The Necronomicon in 2004 and it came with a bonus disc which had a short movie with Bruce Campbell as lead . Think it was called Running Time , without looking it up.
Was about 60-70 mins long and was One continuous short filmed on one camera. Bruce comes out of prison to do one last big score. I highly recommend it. Best line ever from Bruce as he is leaving prison upon release ... " I'll Be sure to check in all your wife's" says something along them lines. Classic Bruce.
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Looks, interesting, I'll check it out!

Also today on the Bruce subreddit I looked at The Demolitionist, a 1995 low budget superhero movie from Robert Kurtzman (who worked on the effects for Evil Dead II) that I've never heard of before. It has Heather Langenkamp and Tom Savini and Bruce has an uncredited cameo as a cool bad boy biker.

 
Oh man. For a second, I thought it was the Demolition Man movie with Wesley Snipes and Sylvester Stallone. :ROFLMAO:
 
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Y'know, I've been prepping and planning on doing something similar to this, and you inspired me to finally pull the trigger on it... Except I was planning on doing it with more than just Bruce's movies. I was calling the project "The Evil Dead Connection", and I'd try to track down more obscure stuff, like these other small horror movies that were edited by Edna Ruth Paul and Kaye Davis, this late '80s horror flick called "The Carrier" that has both cinematography by Peter Deming and music by Joseph LoDuca, this "Easy Wheels" movie that was written by Ivan Raimi but not directed by Sam, the shunned "The Nutt House" (aka The Nutty Nut), William Lustig's "The Hit List" that had both Scott Spiegel and Josh Becker work on the script (actually, all of the films Josh Becker and Scott Spiegel wrote and directed), and so on... I'd only limit it to movies from 1981 to 2000 to start with, just to make it a bit more manageable.

Still, Bruce's filmography fills up most of the list, and that got me thinking: To anyone here who might've gone through most of his films in the past, how many and which ones are actual "Bruce Campbell Movies" rather than just "Movies Bruce Campbell Shows Up In"? I mean movies he's in more than just a couple of scenes, movies in which Bruce is actually the lead, co-lead, an important supporting character or the primary antagonist. Also, what about Ted? Are "Lunatics: A Love Story" and "Skinner" the only two movies in his career he has a lead role?
 
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Groovy-G said:
I remember when I got my DVD version of The Necronomicon in 2004 and it came with a bonus disc which had a short movie with Bruce Campbell as lead . Think it was called Running Time , without looking it up.
Was about 60-70 mins long and was One continuous short filmed on one camera. Bruce comes out of prison to do one last big score. I highly recommend it. Best line ever from Bruce as he is leaving prison upon release ... " I'll Be sure to check in all your wife's" says something along them lines. Classic Bruce.
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I watched Running Time a couple of years ago and remember liking it. I'll probably rewatch it soon, when I finally start crossing the rest of Josh Becker's films off my list.
 
DyD said:
I watched Running Time a couple of years ago and remember liking it. I'll probably rewatch it soon, when I finally start crossing the rest of Josh Becker's films off my list.
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It's on Tubi still, for the curious!

Also your idea sounds great!
 
Hurley said:
I really want to get my hands on Going Back, Bruce's second film role right after The Evil Dead.
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I have it on DVD, it's fantastic; I'll see if I can get you a digital copy somehow.

And this reminds me that I need to hang out on your subreddit; I love his Billy, he's so deliberately smarmy.
 


I don't want to keep plugging the subreddit here like this but when I was trying to find any YouTube videos from Homicide: Life on the Street with Bruce, I wasn't able to, so I had to cut my own clip and upload it to Reddit.
His role on that show (a two-parter in season 4) is actually kind of frustrating to watch because it shows how good of an actor Bruce actually is if given a proper dramatic role, and not just being a snarky asshole winking at the camera. It's similar to the quality of his performance on The X-Files, but here I think he's even better. Or at least gets more time to shine.
 
Hurley said:
I have no opinions on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman (other than Dean Cain is a scumbag) but I just find this photo hilarious.

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Dean Cain is a scumbag ? Really ? What did he do that is so scummy? I haven't heard of the guy in years since his days as superman.
The picture is great though . if it was Ash , superman wouldn't stand a chance .
 
Hurley said:


I don't want to keep plugging the subreddit here like this but when I was trying to find any YouTube videos from Homicide: Life on the Street with Bruce, I wasn't able to, so I had to cut my own clip and upload it to Reddit.
His role on that show (a two-parter in season 4) is actually kind of frustrating to watch because it shows how good of an actor Bruce actually is if given a proper dramatic role, and not just being a snarky asshole winking at the camera. It's similar to the quality of his performance on The X-Files, but here I think he's even better. Or at least gets more time to shine.
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I need to go reply on the subreddit; you're doing a great job over there, Hurley!
 
Groovy-G said:
Dean Cain is a scumbag ? Really ? What did he do that is so scummy? I haven't heard of the guy in years since his days as superman.
The picture is great though . if it was Ash , superman wouldn't stand a chance .
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Take your pick. He's been doing weird evangelical movies since at least the early 2000s, he's a big Trump supporter, and last year he joined ICE. I think he was also making fun of Milly Alcock's (the new Supergirl) appearance, which is… definitely a take.
 
Hurley said:
I have no opinions on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman (other than Dean Cain is a scumbag) but I just find this photo hilarious.

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I'm seriously shocked that this was Bruce's only involvement with non-comic DC media. Why did he never get cast in one of the hundreds of animated series or direct to video animated movies or CW shows that they've done? I assume he would have been in the animated Freddy vs Jason vs Ash movie had that not fallen apart (but even that probably wouldn't have been under the DC Animation branding, probably just the regular Warner Animation banner).
 
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I'm seriously shocked that this was Bruce's only involvement with non-comic DC media. Why did he never get cast in one of the hundreds of animated series or direct to video animated movies or CW shows that they've done? I assume he would have been in the animated Freddy vs Jason vs Ash movie had that not fallen apart (but even that probably wouldn't have been under the DC Animation branding, probably just the regular Warner Animation banner).
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I think the heyday of the CW stuff was also when Burn Notice and AvED were on, which I'd say is the reason why he wasn't in a lot of bit-parts around that time.

Only after my recent re-read of Hail to the Chin have I realized that there's only 2 years between the end of Burn Notice and the start of AvED (which is crazy to say in retrospect) and in those two years he did that Fargo cameo, that James Franco movie that never came out (I don't think) and the Last Fan Standing gameshow. Which already is alot to cram in just two years.
 
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