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Blatant False Advertising (Bruce Campbell-related)


This has already been addressed elsewhere on the board, but for the sake of emphasis, Bruce Campbell is, for all intents and purposes, not in this movie. He has about two lines of dialog at the end that could've been delivered by any random jerko off the street, and you don' even see a close-up of his face. Nonetheless, his name is the first one listed on the very front of the box as if he were the star. Even worse, the back of the box has a picture of him doctored into the movie, in the foreground of the frame, and wearing completely different clothes than he wore in the movie (he plays a nameless cop), clearly in an attempt to make it look like he's a main character, or at least has some substantial screen time. This is all really appalling and unprofessional.

Nevertheless, if you like cheesy slasher movies from the '80s, I totally recommend this. It was pretty great. Sam and Ted Raimi do have slightly more substantial roles, and it's cool to see Evil Dead 2's Danny Hicks in another role. The camera work is also very creative in an Evil Dead sorta way.

Still, I'm outraged, man. Outraged.

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Haha ya know what, I actually loved that.

Throughout the whole movie my wife and I were chuckling saying "Where the hell is he?". And then at one point, the silhouette of the killer had me laughing and saying "Holy *beep* he's going to be the killer!". And when the killer was revealed, we were still wondering where the hell he was!

Well, then comes the end, and the cruiser pulls up, we immediately died laughing and said almost together THERE HE IS!!!!!!!! And the whole time we were on screen we were saying how awesome it was.

I thought it was perfect. During the slower parts of the film, I still wasn't bored because I was anticipating Bruce. I thought the cameo ruled.

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Yeah bizarre that they'd put his name on the cover when he only does a cameo...


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