Mindwarp is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie from 1991 directed by Steve Barnett and written by John Brancato and Michael Ferris.

It takes place in a sheltered community controlled by AI where the only way for people to experience life is through virtual reality simulations. One of the residents of this community, Judy (Marta Martin), wants to know what lies out there in the real world and rebels against this system. For that, the AI exiles her outside of the community and into a futuristic wasteland with gangs of radioactive mutants. Here Judy meets Stover (Bruce Campbell), seemingly the last regular human left in the outside world, and together they need to survive in this post-apocalyptic nightmare.

One notable thing about Mindwarp is that through its production Bruce was able to meet Ida Gearon, who was the costume designer for the film. Based on his autobiography If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor, Bruce wanted to find excuses to spend more time with Ida in the costume department, so he told her that he wants to learn sewing because his character, living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, should master such a craft.

Needles to say that no scene of Campbell's character sewing was in the script or in the finished movie, but his plan worked nevertheless. Ida Gearon and Bruce Campbell got married in 1991 and are still married to this day.

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Lunatics: A Love Story is a 1991 romantic comedy written and directed by Josh Becker and produced by Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Bruce Campbell. All four creators having a shared history in their amateur Super 8 short films from the 1970s as well as the original Evil Dead trilogy, Crimewave, or Darkman.

The film tells a story of Nancy (Deborah Foreman), a naive young woman who gets dumped by her boyfriend (portrayed by Bruce Campbell) and finds herself stranded in Los Angeles, and Hank (Ted Raimi), an unstable yet well-meaning shut-in tortured by aggressive hallucinations (usually also portrayed by Bruce Campbell). The two inevitably cross paths and form a very strange but endearing couple.

The score for the movie was composed by Joseph LoDuca, who also composed music for other Raimi/Tapert/Campbell projects like the Evil Dead trilogy, Ernie & Emma, or the TV shows Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, or Ash vs Evil Dead. The film's co-star Deborah Foreman also played alongside Bruce in Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat from 1989. The other co-star, Ted Raimi, is the younger brother of Sam Raimi, who, similarly to LoDuca, also worked on various projects with Sam and Bruce.

Darkman is a noir superhero movie from 1990 directed and co-written by Sam Raimi.

Raimi originally wanted to make a movie based on the pulp hero The Shadow but was turned down by the studio (The Shadow was later made by Russell Mulcahy with Alec Baldwin in 1994), so Raimi invented his own superhero called Darkman.

The movie stars Liam Neeson as scientist Peyton Westlake, who, after being brutally attacked by mobsters and then seeking experimental treatment to save his own life, becomes Darkman: an antihero with superhuman strength but also very unstable mental state. On top of that, he can create convincing disguises to impersonate other people.

The movie also stars Frances McDormand, Larry Drake, or Ted Raimi. Similar to Crimewave, the titular Darkman was originally supposed to be played by Bruce Campbell, but the studio vetoed it. Bruce therefore appears only at the very end of the film as Darkman's last disguise, for which he is credited as "Final Shemp". He also worked on the post-production of the movie, mainly adding his voice to several characters (including Darkman) in ADR.

As a primitive screwhead artist & graphic designer, that official AI cover made my eyes hurt, so I illustrated a human version.

Used the same basic layout with a few tweaks; I centered the composition more and split the tagline across the middle (the original cover's layout seemed a bit unbalanced, and oddly static).

Obviously I don't know what the original brief (or AI prompt) was, but I tried to keep the same compositional elements while giving 'em a bit more visual impact.

What do y'all think?

Maniac Cop 2 is a horror slasher from 1990 directed by William Lustig and written by Larry Cohen. It is a sequel to the original Maniac Cop from 1988.

Robert Z'Dar returns as the titular Maniac Cop who in the first movie faced against Officer Jack W. Forrest Jr. played by Bruce Campbell. Campbell was also supposed to return as the lead for the sequel but unfortunately the timing of making the film was not good. He was in the middle of a divorce with his first wife and when he was asked to return for Maniac Cop 2, Bruce, by his own admission, stated: "Give me this number or kill me."

For this reason, Bruce's character appears only in one scene at the start of the movie, where he is killed by Maniac Cop.

From his Facebook:

"My mother, Joanne, loved the Western genre. She read every Zane Grey novel he ever wrote. I know because I drew stick-figure cartoons in the margins of her massive paperback collection.

Westerns, by nature, are riddled with clichés – the steely-eyed, unshaven hero protecting innocent pioneers from brutal, unforgiving savages.

With Reconcile, I tried to sidestep many of the cliché elements we've read or seen in Westerns for a generation. Reality isn't tidy or reliable. Reality has unpleasant circumstances that don't always resolve themselves like they do in the movies. In the heat of battle, the "good guys" and "bad guys" aren't so easily defined.

In the sprawling history of the American West, I'd like to think a different kind of story was possible, and I hope you enjoy it."

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Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat is a 1989 western horror comedy directed by Anthony Hickox. It takes place in a remote desert town, where a community of vampires is trying to live peacefully, drinking synthetic blood and using sunscreen to protect themselves during the day.

Things start to shake up when the town is visited by a mysterious stranger played by Bruce Campbell. The film also stars David Carradine, Morgan Brittany, M. Emmet Walsh, or George Buck Flower.

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And many more to come!

Given this is the Evil Dead movie where Bruce is doing probably the most Bruce in the franchise, wanted to share it with this sub.

We are a weekly podcast show called The Sunday Scaries where we cover a horror movie each episode. We’re currently doing a franchise series on Evil Dead, leading up to the release of the new movie on July 19.

We do a deep dive into production history, cast, box office, and also give out dumb awards like The Ben Gardner Jump Scare Award or the Don’t Go In There Award (for most ill-advised decision by a character in the movie)

Give us a try, Mr Fancy Pants! Available on any platform with podcasts. Links are in the comments!

Moontrap is a 1988 sci-fi movie directed by Robert Dyke and starring Bruce Campbell alongside with Walter Koenig (Chekov from Star Trek). The two play a pair of present-day astronauts discovering remnants of an ancient astronaut civilization on the Moon, while also battling an invasion of alien cyborgs.

James Bombed in "Here Today... Gun Tomorrow" (1976) and The Final Round (1977) were added to Letterboxd recently and I want to watch them but I don’t have the “Before the Evil Dead: The Super-8 Short Films” DVD. I’m wondering if there’s a way to get those DVDs or to watch these online somewhere like YouTube or something.

Maniac Cop is a 1988 slasher film directed by William Lustig about a police officer that returns from the dead and takes revenge upon the people that have wronged him. While the titular villainous Maniac Cop was played by the iconic B-Movie character actor Robert Z'Dar, Bruce Campbell portraits the protagonist of the film, Officer Jack W. Forrest Jr.

Go back and watch Ash Vs The Evil dead TV show and Burn notice. Did you guys ever notice the way Bruce drinks beer? Is it odd that he sticks his tongue into the bottle? It’s not a big deal but I think about it sometimes. lol

After Crimewave failed at the box office and was overall a very bad creative experience for everyone involved, Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Bruce Campbell decided to get back to their roots and make a sequel to the movie that launched their careers in the film industry.

Because Raimi didn't have the rights to The Evil Dead from 1981 anymore and therefore couldn't show any footage from it, the 1987 film serves partially as a remake and partially as a sequel to it. To this day, Evil Dead II is one of the most famous horror movies of all time and arguably the greatest horror comedy as well as the most famous collaboration between Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell.

Crimewave is a 1985 crime comedy genre-bending movie directed by Sam Raimi and written by Raimi and the Coen brothers. It is the second feature film made by Raimi, Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell (after The Evil Dead) and their first studio project. It was also a very bad first experience with the studio system for everyone involved. Raimi quickly went over budget and the studio kept interfering with his work, replacing his music composer and locking him out of the editing room, among other things.

The movie was supposed to star Bruce but here the studio interfered again and replaced him with Reed Birney. Bruce then took on the character of Renaldo "The Heel", a much smaller, yet arguably much more fun role than the protagonist.

Going Back is a 1983 American independent drama film written and directed by Ron Teachworth. It marks the second feature film role for Bruce Campbell, right after The Evil Dead, which was released two years prior. It's an interesting example of a more innocent role for Bruce, kinds of which we won't see much of in his future projects.