Throughout his illustrious career, Bruce Campbell has played rude maitre’ d’s, snooty ushers, doomed archaeological explorers, and obnoxious versions of himself; he’s played disgraced Navy SEALs, the king of rock and roll, and, as of last Sunday’s episode of The Librarians, he’s even played Santa Claus. But Campbell will always and forever be known as Ashley J.”Ash” Williams, the chainsaw-handed, shotgun wielding, demon fighting antihero of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead films.
So it’s only natural that Raimi and Campbell, the icons of the series, should return to show a new generation the right way to clean up evil in Starz’ upcoming Ash vs Evil Dead TV series. Credit due to Fede Alvarez for making a slick update on the Evil Dead formula in his 2013 remake; he turned out a tidy profit for TriStar and churned a few stomachs in the process, but all without capturing the magic of the original movies.