Bruce Campbell Is Back Battling Evil Dead

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Think Bruce Campbell, think Ash from The Evil Dead, You may think Elvis from Bubba Ho-Tep, maybe Autolycus from Xena. (Does anyone remember Brisco County Jnr?)
Now hear the name Bruce Cambell, you will be thinking BRUCE CAMBELL as he now stars as himself in My Name Is Bruce

Produced by, directed by and starring Bruce Campbell and written by Mark Verheiden (Battlestar Galactica; Smallville; Timecop; The Mask), MY NAME IS BRUCE sees the B Movie Horror hero doing what he does best ? demon slaying ? in his own inimitable style. It may sound like business as usual for Bruce, but there’s a catch. This time it’s for real!

Bruce Campbell is a womanizing, booze-addled B-movie star, who bears nothing but contempt for his loyal fans. This is of course the character Bruce, not the real one. When reckless teenager and Bruce-obsessive, Jeff Graham (Taylor Sharpe), accidentally awakens the ancient evil spirit and Chinese protector of the dead (and bean curd!), Guan-di, in the small mining town of Gold Lick, Oregon, he can think of only one man capable of preventing the demon from wiping out the town’s entire population. Forced by circumstance to take desperate measures, Jeff takes it upon himself to kidnap his idol and delivers him to the townsfolk of Gold Lick. Believing the whole scenario to be part of birthday prank arranged by his agent (Ted Raimi, in one of three roles), Bruce gamely plays along, not least because he sees it as an opportunity to try out his charms on Jeff’s hot mom while consuming plenty of free liquor. The star’s willingness to play along soon changes, however, when he finally confronts Guan-di and discovers the demon isn’t just some harmless stunt guy in a rubber suit!

Adding to the film’s appeal, both for audiences and himself, in producing it Bruce has surrounded himself with a host of his and Sam Raimi’s longtime friends and associates from their Evil Dead days onwards, including stars Ted Raimi (the Spider-Man trilogy; The Grudge; Army Of Darkness), Ellen Sandweiss (The Evil Dead) and Danny Hicks (Spider-Man 2; Darkman; Maniac Cop; Evil Dead II) and composer Joseph LoDuca (the Evil Dead trilogy; Man With The Screaming Brain).

Undeniably the ultimate Bruce Campbell movie, MY NAME IS BRUCE is a hilarious horror-comedy romp that playfully pokes fun at Campbell’s movie oeuvre to date and is packed with plenty of fan-pleasing farce, slapstick, self-referential in-jokes and some classic Bruce one-liners.

MY NAME IS BRUCE (cert. 15) will be released on DVD (?19.99) and Blu-ray (?19.99) by Anchor Bay Entertainment on 2nd March 2009. Prior to the DVD release the film will receive a limited theatrical release from 13th February 2009.

Extra features:

DVD:

* Feature commentary with Bruce Campbell and Mike Richardson
* Heart of Dorkness – The Making of My Name is Bruce (approx 60min)
* The Cavealien 2 – trailer
* Love Birds – Piece about the relationship between Danny Hick and Tim
Quill’s characters
* Waxing Philosophical with Bruce or “Bruce on…” (4 segments)
* Awkward Moments with Kif (2 segments)
* Kif’s Korner – The making of real fake posters

Blue-Ray:

* Feature commentary with Bruce Campbell and Mike Richardson
* Heart of Dorkness – The Making of My Name is Bruce (approx 60min)
* Beyond Inside the Cave – Making of Cavealien 2
* The Cavealien 2 – trailer
* Love Birds – Piece about the relationship between Danny Hick and Tim
Quill’s characters.
* Waxing Philosophical with Bruce or “Bruce on…” (4 segments)
* Awkward Moments with Kif (2 segments)
* Kif’s Korner – The making of real fake posters
* Easter Eggs
* Poster Gallery

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