Just Announced An evening with Bruce Campbell at Pabst Theater

The cult classics Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 were models of no-budget, down-and-dirty genre filmmaking, and their homemade quality was a large part of their splat-stick charm. So when major studio Universal commissioned director Sam Raimi to conclude the trilogy with 1992’s Army Of Darkness, there was a danger that the higher production values could prove to be a negative. Fortunately, the extra money just gave Raimi a bigger toybox for what may be the grandest tribute to stop-motion maestro Ray Harryhausen ever created. Bruce Campbell returns to the role of Ash, this time transported from the present-day (along with his shotgun, car, and chainsaw) to the year 1300 AD, where he goes off on a mission to retrieve the Necronomicon in order to rid a kingdom of evil, but winds up unleashing an army of the dead instead.

Campbell will make an appearance at Milwaukee’s Pabst Theater Saturday, March 2, 2013, to share stories from his career, take part in an audience Q&A, and preside over a free screening of Army Of Darkness. Reserved seating tickets are $28, and go on sale Friday, Nov. 9 at noon. Say it with us: “Groovy.”