Bruce Campbell Says Stephen King Changed Everything for ‘The Evil Dead’: “How Fast Was That Change in Perception?”

Before Bruce Campbell lopped off his hand and replaced it with a chainsaw, he and a young Sam Raimi were trying to get people to take their homemade horror movie seriously. Then Stephen King saw The Evil Dead, and everything changed.

In a new appearance on Chris Jericho’s Talk Is Jericho, Campbell revisited King’s endorsement out of the Cannes Film...