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Ask Bruce Campbell

As an actor who has used various weapons in his films, if you had to defend yourself from a gang of thugs what would be your weapon of choice? Wiist
Well, it's weird, I'm the only guy in my valley who doesn't have a gun, so I'd run. I would run, I'd totally run and I would just hope that in my fear I could outrun them.

How did it feel to argue with, fight with and eventually have to bury yourself in "Army of Darkness"? Gavin Rolston
It felt good, but it was a little tedious having to play both parts. We would shoot whole sequences of just Ash, and then whole sequences of just Evil Ash and mix it all together. If you're in a ridiculous movie that's part of what's in store - changing costumes, changing make-up, a lot of crazy things like that. In a normal film you don't go through that, which is why every time I've been in an A-movie... They're actually really easy to be in. They take care of you, everything is covered. They don't want you to get all messy, they don't want to bother with the really crazy stuff, but the B-movies are always reaching a little more.

Do you plan to direct again? Andy Jacobs
Yeah, this coming spring I'm going to prep a film called "Man With the Screaming Brain" for the Sci-fi Channel, that will air about a year from now. It's gone through a number of different drafts and I had to review the whole thing to get it up to speed with where myself and my partner David Goodman are as filmmakers now, we have different tastes I think. So, it needs a whole upgrade, plus notes from the Sci-fi Channel, so I don't really know what direction it'll go in right now, I have to look at it. It's basically "Body Heat" with a brain transplant. It's a film noir with a sci-fi twist.

Ash in the "Evil Dead" movies has a number of classic catchphrases - which one gets repeated to you the most? Philip Guest
Probably, "Give me some sugar, baby", which was actually translated into Chinese by a guy who was working in Beijing and he went into a bar and used it and he got laid. So that line has much power.

Why do you think the effects have not dated as badly in "Evil Dead" I & II as in some other horror flicks of the same period? Gavin Rolston
I think the credit to Sam is that he mixed them up - he didn't have one type of effect that came in and out of style. Sam used forced perspective shots, he used split-screen, he used, sometimes, even cheesy rearscreen, and miniatures, animation... He used his little magician's bag more than most of the other low-budget movies, so I think maybe that helps.

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