My Name is Bruce

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Directed by: Bruce Campbell

Reviewed by: Fergus McShane

Price: £19.99

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Bruce Campbell is the ultimate B-movie star. He is a man with a legacy in horror and an army of undead devotees following him everywhere he goes. It is exciting then to see him unleashed in the semi-biographical, fully paradoxical film-ode to his fans that is My Name is Bruce.

A plotline that could easily have come straight from one of his many appearances at Comic-Con sees Bruce, the jaded, boozing, womanising Z-lister enter into battle with Guan-Di (the Chinese protector of the dead), when a fan mistakenly thinks; who better to save the town of Gold Lick from a demon, than Ash from The Evil Dead?

As usual Campbell is in his enigmatic and charming element. And what the film lacks in plot and direction is more than made up for with countless sarcastic one-liners, a good helping of slapstick and the level of gore we have come to expect from any Bruce Campbell film.

My Name is Bruce is definitely one for the die-hard fans. It may not have the lifespan of the films that turned Bruce Campbell into the cult icon we now know, but it surely secures his place as the undisputed A-lister of the B-movies.

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