'Hail to the Deadites' by Dan Lybarger | Today at 1:48 a.m. Bruce Campbell, who stars as Ash Williams in Sam Raimi’s “Evil Dead” and its sequels, inspects the costume of a cosplayer in a scene from the documentary “Hail to the Deadites.” About a decade ago, my then-girlfriend thought I was crazy to give my friends Kevin and Anita a deluxe, book-bound edition of Sam Raimi's "Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn" as a wedding present. To her the decision seemed as ill-advised as many of the things Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) does in Raimi's trilogy. I'm happy to report that the two are still an item and still love the movies, although I'd be arrogant if I thought the replica of the "Necronomicon" I gave them is what has kept them together.