Bruce Campbell Has A Personal Problem With Recent Evil Dead Films. I Think He’s Dead Right

Ash (campbell) sits at the bar in a brown-red leather jacket and grey shirt in his return to his battle with the deadites in Ash vs Evil Dead.

I’ve had a good time with the nastier direction the Evil Dead franchise has taken over the past decade. The 2013 reboot movie was absolutely merciless, Evil Dead Rise found a fresh setting and plenty of disgusting ways to use it, and the 2026 movie schedule release -- Evil Dead Burn -- was relentlessly nasty, keeping the franchise’s reputation for soaking its characters in blood intact. Still, something has been missing, and series star and producer Bruce Campbell just put his finger on what he thinks it is. In my opinion, he’s dead right.

Where Bruce Campbell Thinks Evil Dead Has Lost Its Way