My Name Is Bruce (2007)

Director:

Bruce Campbell

Writer (WGA):

Mark Verheiden (written by)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror

Tagline:

Kick some Ash

Plot:

B Movie Legend Bruce Campbell is mistaken for his character Ash from the Evil Dead trilogy and forced to fight a real monster in a small town in Oregon. |

Plot Keywords:

Film Within A Film | B Movie | Actor Playing Himself | Actor Playing Multiple Roles | Movie Set

Cast

Adam Boyd	...	Tiny
Bruce Campbell	...	Bruce Campbell
Mike Estes	...	Fan #2
Janelle Farber	...	Kasey
Kieran Henthorn	...	1st AD Shemp
Dan Hicks	...	Pig Farmer Dan
Jeff Hunter	...	Disinterested Townie
Michael Kallio	...	Hack Director / Annoyed Townie (as Mike Kallio)
Dani Kelly	...	Gold Lick Citizen
Duncan Key	...	Fan #3
Jeffrey Scott Kindred	...	Gold Lick Townie
Gary Kout	...	Producer Shemp
Casey Larios	...	Cave Patrol
Ben L. McCain	...	Mayor
David Moore	...	Guan-Di #2
Timothy Patrick Quill
Ted Raimi	...	Wing
Mike Richardson	...	Studio Head Shemp
Jackson Rowe	...	Sasquatch Shemp
Craig Sanborn	...	Bowling Shemp
Ellen Sandweiss	...	Cheryl
Grace Thorsen	...	Kelly Graham
Chris Tongue	...	Studio Shemp

MPAA:

Rated R for language and some violence.

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Certification:

USA:R

Filming Locations:

Southern Oregon, Oregon, USA

Company:

Dark Horse Entertainment

Movie Connections:

References Evil Dead II (1987)

A Great Bruce Campbell Experience

I just got back from the first screening of "My Name is Bruce," and I am very impressed. To put it simply, the movie is a film made by Bruce Campbell for Bruce Campbell fans. If you're not a Bruce Campbell fan, then you're probably not reading this post, so I'll move on.

An ancient Chinese deity is set free a small Southern Oregon town (a town Bruce Campbell calls the sequel to Deliverance at one point), and the townsfolk (and, yes, they are folk) decide to enlist the help of Bruce Campbell to stop the evil force. Bruce, however, believes the whole thing to be an elaborate hoax and plays along.

This movie is funny, but it's two kinds of funny here. There are the jokes that anybody can sit down and enjoy, and then there are the "in" references that only Bruce fans can really enjoy. And there are a lot of "ins" (I don't envy the person who has to do the trivia section for this one). Some are from his more famous works (Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, etc.) and will only truly be appreciated by the hardest of the hard core (Mindwarp, McHale's Navy).

I can't really discuss much of the technical merits of the film, since my screening was done on an early edit. There were no special effects, the music was of the stand-in variety, and some of the sound effects sounded like they had come from a Warner Bros. cartoon (also stand-in). However, the movie's slant toward the realm of the B-movie makes these quirks seem perfectly in place. I still enjoy myself despite them, and the movie might have taken on a whole new charm because of them. I'll have to check out a clean version to be sure.

In conclusion, if you're a Bruce Campbell fan, you're going to see this movie regardless of what you read here; however, I'll save you the anxiety and say you won't be disappointed in the least. If you're not a huge fan, this movie is still worth a viewing, since it's comedy could be seen as ripping on the horror genre in general and in a far superior way than the "Scary Movie" trilogy ever did.