Bruce Campbell currently holds an interesting place in the world of celebrity and fandom. Between Burn Notice, the Evil Dead remake, Comic-Cons, Wizard Worlds, the rise of horror and movie themed websites (like this one), social media and Ash Vs Evil Dead he is more popular and well known than ever.

However, I wouldn’t say that he is “celebrity" or even "Hollywood” famous. He’s not exactly a ‘that guy’ or a character actor either. Clearly, for those who love to pigeonhole people, it’s complicated.

What we can say, though, is he is an extremely talented, interesting fella with many diverse strings to his creative bow. An actor, a writer, a director, a producer, a documentary maker, creator of the most expensive audio book ever recorded, a long walker, fascinated by land management and, of course, an author, now, of three books. Not bad, right? you primitive screwheads...

Sixteen years since the first part of a planned trilogy of memoirs, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor and 12 years since his hilarious, semi-fictional novel Make Love!* *The Bruce Campbell Way comes his second autobiography, Hail to the Chin: Further Confessions of a B Movie Actor.

If you have read Bruce’s previous books then you’ll know that he writes a lot like he talks. It’s relaxed, quick to read, matter-of-fact, not prone to needless poetry, it’s jokey in parts, informative in others and he keeps most of his emotions fairly close to his chest but he is one hell of an engaging story teller. His skills have been honed for many years on the convention stages and the post-screening Q&As that he does at an awe inspiring amount.



It you haven't read his previous books then, firstly, why haven’t you? and, secondly, rectify that immediately!!

Hail to the Chin is less a straight forward autobiography and more a series of stories about everything from low budget film-making, car accidents and trips to Iraq to pranking his friends in Bulgaria, injuries on set, the characters that scatter the southern Oregon landscape and strapping back on Ash's chainsaw.