What are questions that you like to be asked, and could you answer a couple of them? Haydar Talib

Oh, um, well the funny thing is, most people never ask about my craft, which I find fascinating. I had an interview one time, back in 1987, in a small cable show in Oklahoma City, and he was the only guy who asked me things like, "How do you learn your lines?" and "What time do you have to get up in the morning?" and "How does it all work?" I fumbled through the interview because I'd never answered the questions before. Most people don't ask questions about an actor's craft, they'll ask, what car does he drive, what's in his CD player? That sort of thing.

Your book is called If Chins Could Kill. If you could kill anyone with your chin (or at least wound them a bit), who would it be and why? Dave Smith

I would kill anyone in the film industry who is pretentious and I'd kill anyone in the film industry who thumbs their nose at the B-movie industry, because that's the farm team! You pick from the B-movies and put them in the A-movies, that's how it works. B-movie actors used to have long-term contracts because that's how studios would test these stars out. So, A-movies can laugh or thumb their noses at B-movies all they want, but that's where everybody comes from - including James Cameron, who directed Piranha 2.

Are you happy being a cult film hero or would you have preferred to have more mainstream success? Harmeet Bhandal

I'm pretty happy with this situation, because it allows me to live in a different state, and live a quiet, pretty normal life as a result, but I can still squeak a living out.

As an actor who has used various weapons in his films, if you had to defend yourself from a gang of thugs what would be your weapon of choice? Wiist

ell, it's weird, I'm the only guy in my valley who doesn't have a gun, so I'd run. I would run, I'd totally run and I would just hope that in my fear I could outrun them.

How did it feel to argue with, fight with and eventually have to bury yourself in Army Of Darkness? Gavin Rolston

It felt good, but it was a little tedious having to play both parts. We would shoot whole sequences of just Ash, and then whole sequences of just Evil Ash and mix it all together. If you're in a ridiculous movie that's part of what's in store - changing costumes, changing make-up, a lot of crazy things like that. In a normal film you don't go through that, which is why every time I've been in an A-movie... They're actually really easy to be in. They take care of you, everything is covered. They don't want you to get all messy, they don't want to bother with the really crazy stuff, but the B-movies are always reaching a little more.

Do you plan to direct again? Andy Jacobs

Yeah, this coming spring I'm going to prep a film called Man With The Screaming Brain for the Sci-Fi Channel, that will air about a year from now. It's gone through a number of different drafts and I had to review the whole thing to get it up to speed with where myself and my partner David Goodman are as filmmakers now, we have different tastes I think. So, it needs a whole upgrade, plus notes from the Sci-Fi Channel, so I don't really know what direction it'll go in right now, I have to look at it. It's basically Body Heat with a brain transplant. It's a film noir with a sci-fi twist.

Ash in the Evil Dead movies has a number of classic catchphrases - which one gets repeated to you the most? Philip Guest

Probably, "Give me some sugar, baby", which was actually translated into Chinese by a guy who was working in Beijing and he went into a bar and used it and he got laid. So that line has much power.

Why do you think the effects have not dated as badly in Evil Dead I & II as in some other horror flicks of the same period? Gavin Rolston

I think the credit to Sam is that he mixed them up - he didn't have one type of effect that came in and out of style. Sam used forced perspective shots, he used split-screen, he used, sometimes, even cheesy rearscreen, and miniatures, animation... He used his little magician's bag more than most of the other low-budget movies, so I think maybe that helps.

Hey Bruce, love your work. I was wondering could you help me, I have been trying for ages to track down a movie I saw you in. I would love to know the title as I never saw the end. You played a guy who was pushed into being a bank robber by your wife. Gavin Hartin

Oh, yeah, that was called In The Line Of Duty: Blaze Of Glory". It was a series of NBC TV movies that they made loosely based on real police stories, and this was based loosely on a real story of yuppie bankrobbers, who lived a normal yuppie life, but paid for everything by robbing banks.

Would it be correct in saying you are probably the most tortured man in film history? John Callaghan

Jeez, I don't know. I suppose I would go on a short list of one through ten, maybe. I'm sure there are other actors who've had it worse, I just can't think of any right now.

Do you have any plans to write another book? Dave Anderson

It's funny you should ask that question. I'm writing a lighthearted look at relationships book called Make Love The Bruce Campbell Way. It's due out in about a year from now.

Were you a whizz with the ladies in high school? Padre DelMar

That person will find out once they read the next book, but the basic answer is, "Hell, no!"

What is better, being in a film or having your own action figure? Karl Walsh

Well, the action figure is too obscure, because with the Army Of Darkness action figure, it came out about ten years after the movie, so it's hard to get all a-twitter. But I'm glad to see that there's enough interest to put it out, and now Todd McFarlane has done a whole bunch of those versions, so I'm glad somebody out there's making money.

What can we expect next? DGC Leenart

I'm going to write this next book and then direct this film and then go on tour for the next book and then take some time off, so all of '03 is pretty much committed for.

Are you going to tour Europe some time to promote your book? Andrew McQuade

You know what, at some point I really should, because it's silly to neglect it seeing as Mother England is really responsible for helping launch the Evil Dead movies. So at some point I hope to. It's just hard to co-ordinate.<

Why do you think the Evil Dead movies got more support in England than they did in America? James Evans

Because they were more tolerant at the time, I think. It's also I think... Parts of London are a little rowdier than parts of the States were at that time, and I think it's a rowdy movie. It needs a rowdy audience to kick in. In the States it took a while for people to find it, but it almost became a European curiosity. You know, "What's this movie that's causing all that stir over there?" So it came here and people found it here, but someone had to get it going and see what the reaction was somewhere else. Someone had to prove that the movie could do something to audiences.