The Evil Dead (1981)
Five college students vacationing at a Tennessee cabin awaken demonic spirits through a Sumerian text, in Sam Raimi's debut. Bruce Campbell plays Ash Williams.
Actor: Bruce Campbell
Bruce Campbell has played Ash Williams across the Evil Dead films and a television series, and the character’s evolution from screaming victim to swaggering idiot is the through line of the whole property.
Evil Dead II is the achievement, requiring him to fight his own possessed hand in a sequence of pure Three Stooges slapstick inside a horror film.
He appears in every Sam Raimi film, including brief roles in the Spider-Man and Doctor Strange entries, and has written two very funny memoirs.
