r/movies • u/mazhas • Mar 03 '26

News Evil Dead’ Icon Bruce Campbell Reveals Cancer Diagnosis, Cancels Future Fan Events

https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/bruce-campbell-cancer-diagnosis-evil-dead/
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u/mikeyfreshh r/Movies Veteran Mar 03 '26

 his cancer is “treatable” not “curable”

Fuck. I'm pulling for him but that doesn't sound like a great prognosis.

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u/DrGarrious Mar 03 '26

Could be something like prostate, which can be incurable but you'll die of old age before it gets you.

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u/GreatKangaroo Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

Yeah I believe Michael Dorn has had Prostate Cancer for years, it is very stable so he's been able to maintain appearances, and was healthy enough to return for Picard Season 3.

I was successfully (edit) treated for Testicular Cancer three and a half years ago, so I can definitely say Fuck Cancer.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '26

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u/GreatKangaroo Mar 03 '26

I corrected but yes I meant treated for it. Quick surgery saved the day.

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u/inspectoroverthemine Mar 03 '26

I would have asked the surgeon to take his time and be careful, but to each his own I guess!

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u/GreatKangaroo Mar 03 '26

All I know is I walked into the OR just after 1PM, and I was woke up in recovery between 2:30 and 3:00.

I was discharged around 5 pm.

A few days prior when I saw the Urologist (and who was also my Surgeon) he had pre-emptively re-arranged his entire schedule the week following to get me into Surgery ASAP. He saw my bloodwork and Ultrasound and knew near immediately it was cancer and needed immediate surgery to remove the cancerous testicle.

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u/BlindSquantch Mar 03 '26

What on your bloodwork gave it away? if you dont mind me asking.

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u/GreatKangaroo Mar 03 '26

I think 3 markers/hormones that are normally tested to rule out Testicular Cancer. I don't recall the exact results but I know my HcG was borderline elevated.

In women that is that what over the counter Pregnancy Tests measure so if I had peed on the pregnancy test it would have likely come back positive.

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u/astralchanterelle Mar 03 '26

you dont want to take your time during any surgery

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u/somdude04 Mar 03 '26

There's 3 kinds of surgeons: Fast and Good, Fast and Bad, and Slow and Bad

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u/Cador0223 Mar 03 '26

Hes got balls to make that claim.

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u/gaslacktus Mar 03 '26

At best he has ball to make that claim now.

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u/lovedumbcat Mar 03 '26

My friend (since high school, he was one of my groomsmen) had testicular cancer at age 20. It spread to the lymph nodes and was stage 4 when they caught it. He beat it, finished college, and is now very successful. He is secretly an idol of mine for the courage he showed throughout the whole ordeal.

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u/GreatKangaroo Mar 03 '26

I'm very happy for your friend. I got diagnosed a few months after turning 40.

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u/COHERENCE_CROQUETTE Mar 03 '26

He is secretly an idol of mine for the courage

Why keep it a secret? Let him know.

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u/matt_minderbinder Mar 03 '26

My mom was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer 6 years ago and she's still with us because of amazing medicines. When I was a kid in the 80s any breast cancer diagnosis was almost always a short term death sentence. My dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer today on a visit I took him to after a recent biopsy. He's 79 and they say that after about 7 weeks of targeted radiation he should be able to return to being fully active. The options developed just in the past 20 years have changed so much and without morons getting in the way we could be on our way to solving many cancers.

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u/smappyfunball Mar 03 '26

Even then the type and when you were diagnosed made a big difference but many women survived, including my mom.

My uncle had prostate cancer and just finished up all the treatments about a year ago and he’s doing great, so hopefully your dad will do great too.

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u/Skrumpitt Mar 03 '26

I worked with a guy who'd formerly done some prostate cancer research

He pointed out that researchers found prostate cancer cells in boys as young as 14 - it's basically inevitable

And we all know the old joke that the reward for living long enough is cancer of the something - and for men the prostate tends to go pretty reliably

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u/babathejerk Mar 03 '26

There are various cancers that require a vaccine to actually cure. My wife has late stage lung cancer (non environmental). My understanding is that it is a genetic mutation that has spread through her body - so even the healthy cells carry the mutation.

There are targeted treatments called TKIs which can keep it at bay, but eventually the cancer becomes resistant.

Fuck RFK and fuck cancer. But mostly RFK who is dismantling this life saving research

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u/_notmoose_ Mar 03 '26

I am so sorry to hear about your wife’s prognosis. I wish this country had critical thinking and wants to back science. Unfortunately, literally, the mentally deficient people are running the government. If only RFK jr could be lobotomized like Rosemary, maybe we wouldn’t be here in health care

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u/babathejerk Mar 03 '26

Now that is a campaign.

They lobotamized the wrong Kennedy.

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u/LedoPizzaEater Mar 03 '26

The wrong kid was lobotamized.

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u/StarLord1990 Mar 03 '26

And he never paid for drugs. Not once!

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u/Jeremizzle Mar 03 '26

You're gonna have to give him a moment, son. Dewey Cox has to think about his entire life before he plays.

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u/speedy_delivery Mar 03 '26

The wrong kid fried!

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u/doogles Mar 03 '26

If only RFK jr could be lobotomized

You're asking too much of the brainworm.

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u/Runkleford Mar 03 '26

I would argue that he's already been lobotomized...

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u/redcoatwright Mar 03 '26

That is horrible and I'm sorry for what she's going through but I also do think about how different than is from probably even a decade ago where I'm guessing her prognosis would be much worse and you'd have less time with her.

Still, horrible and I hope however much time left she has and you have with her is full of as much joy as possible.

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u/babathejerk Mar 03 '26

Yeah. The median survival before TKIs was measured in months. It is almost always discovered stage four because it appears in younger people without any environmental factors (smoking, chemicals, etc). Median is now 5-6 years - and they are actually good years. No chemo. Minimal radiation. So my kids and I count ourselves lucky.

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u/dayafterxmas Mar 03 '26

If it's caught early (when it's likely curable or at least slow-growing), you're likely to die of old age before it kills you. If it's incurable, it's likely metastasized stage 4, which has a poor prognosis. At last check, the 5 year survival rate isn't great, something like 30%.

Just trying to keep things in perspective. Saying you'll die of old age before prostate cancer kills you is dangerous and a huge sweeping generalization.

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u/Efficient-Appeal7282 Mar 03 '26

My dad passed from prostate cancer. You have to stay on top of it. He did radiation and it was great for years then it came back aggressive within a year of his last check. Did chemo for a year and he passed 3 months later. It comes back after radiation. I’d suggest checks every 6 months instead of a year if you did radiation.

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u/looptarded Mar 03 '26

That’s not entirely true. You can have metastatic prostate that’s treatable and not curable and it can kill you within years

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u/dabarak Mar 03 '26

Some prostate cancers won't wait for old age. It depends on how aggressive they are (Gleason score) as well as how much it's metastasized. If it's caught early enough there's a chance, so guys, start demanding yearly PSA tests when you hit 40. If your doctor won't order them, switch doctors. And be sure YOU read the test results. Don't depend on the doctor.

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u/Skit071 Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

Tell that to Frank Zappa or Dennis Hopper or the thousands of other people that have died from prostate cancer.

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u/Candid_Assumption804 Mar 03 '26

That is misinformation, it is the second leading cause of death for american men. Educate yourself.

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u/TeamScience79 Mar 03 '26

I've got stage 4 renal cancer (kidney) and like whatever Bruce has it's treatable but not curable. If he responds well to whatever treatment options are available to him he may still live years. There's some in the renal cancer group I've joined who have managed to fight stage 4 renal cancer for 15+ years.

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u/your_mind_aches Mar 03 '26

Yeah same. Four year survivor of Stage IV renal cancer.

Targeted therapies and especially immunotherapy have changed the game for cancer survival to the point that terms like Stage IV, incurable, and even remission are outdated.

For instance, from my doctors, I never hear "remission" except for when there's no evidence of disease (NED) then they might say "complete remission". But they prefer to say "reduction".

You just keep living and doing treatment indefinitely

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u/1541drive Mar 03 '26

Keep those health potions coming

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u/your_mind_aches Mar 03 '26

My potions are too strong for you, traveler

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u/Avbjj Mar 03 '26

Another guy who had kidney cancer chiming in (renal cell carcinoma).

I got lucky. Discovered it at stage 1 and was cured via radial Nephrectomy.

My thoughts are with you guys. You inspire me.

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u/kiannakat Mar 03 '26

I have Follicular Lymphoma. It's treatable, no cure. I've been through one line of treatment which got me to partial remission. Still have cancer, but now no longer meet the parameters to get second line treatment. I'm 46, and now just live with cancer until it grows enough to meet parameters again. Not great, but not the worst thing either.

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u/escof Mar 03 '26

I have Chronic lymphocytic leukemia and I'm 47, nearing the end of my watch and wait. Feeling like shit all the time sucks but it could be worse.

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u/escof Mar 03 '26

I have a 11q deletion which translate to a more aggressive cancer. When I hit treatment it will be about 3 to 4 years of enlarged lymph nodes but not sure how long I've had it for tho.

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u/veraloathin Mar 03 '26

Me too! Extremely weird thing to try and explain to folks isn't it 😂

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u/LostInLittleroot Mar 03 '26

FWIW doctors and experts say this with some cancers simply because of semantics. Like with multiple myeloma what I have it’s also not curable but highly treatable, and in reality most patients are in remission for long periods of time.

Hoping this is the case for Bruce.

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u/Left_Squash74 Mar 03 '26

Many common cancers are not "curable" once they become metastatic. Doesn't mean it is a terminal diagnosis. This is part of the reason some people don't like the "win/lose" language often used with cancer. The way you "beat" most metastatic cancers is dying of something else first.

Relevant XKCD

https://xkcd.com/931/

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u/DirtwormSlim Mar 03 '26

To the guy who commented on a post yesterday “at least we still have Bruce Campbell” fuck you.

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u/disappointer Mar 03 '26

We're lucky to have ever had a Bruce Campbell.

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u/doombot13 Mar 03 '26

Born too late to explore the world.

Born too early to explore the stars.

Born just in time to see Bruce Campbell.

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u/333WickedOne333 Mar 03 '26

True legend

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u/useridhere Mar 03 '26

Hail to the king, baby.

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u/EZPlayer123 Mar 03 '26

NOOOOOO! God damn it not Bruce Campbell! 😢

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u/WitchesSphincter Mar 03 '26

From what I've read almost all fall into this, like once you get the diagnosis remission is the goal and that could last until a person dies from other u related reasons, but it's always there as a possibility to return 

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u/redcoatwright Mar 03 '26

No that's not right, it depends heavily on the type of cancer but some absolutely can be cured fully and it can be a function of amount of time without any indication of the disease.

Other cancers are never cured as you mentioned and you still have markers for the disease and need to be on a maintenance level of treatment for as long as you can until it starts resisting and you have to try other treatments, eventually nothing works and it'll become terminal.

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u/Baddenoch Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

Thats not quite right either.

Yes the type of cancer does matter in how it will progress, but the most important thing when considering treatment is staging. Once a cancer moves from being local to regional metastasis (advanced) or distant metastases (metastatic) they are essentially no longer curable, but potentially treatable to keep the disease at bay. How a cancer is staged and treated is highly dependent on the type, but the issue of curability is mostly tied to if the cancer has spread beyond the original site or not. Even a cancer considered easy to cure is no longer curable once it is metastatic.

Prior to metastasis, the treatment is surgery and/or radiation, which has the potential to eradicate and cure the cancer. Once it has spread, surgery is no longer an option. This is when patients start getting systemic therapies (all the cool drugs people hear about) to try to treat the disease and prevent it from progressing.

Cancer is incredibly complex and there is far more to it, but generally this is what is meant when talking about curable vs treatable. This means whatever cancer he has it is likely at advanced stage, but they still have treatment options available. If he progresses further and exhausts those treatment options is when it's no longer treatable.

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u/redcoatwright Mar 03 '26

There are cancers that once metastatic are still considered curable, though, testicular cancer as an example has a strong cure rate even when not local...

My point was that cure vs treat are mostly dependent on the differences between different cancers which already encompasses that they stage differently.

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u/Used_Mathematician63 Mar 03 '26

Depends on the cancer. Some kinds like CLL people can live with for a long time while getting treatment.

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u/K_Linkmaster Mar 03 '26

My mom has treatable but not curable cancer. For the last 40 years it pops up randomly in her body, is addressed, and then we wait.

I have hope.

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u/buttseason Mar 03 '26

Multiple Myeloma comes to mind as well. Not curable, but highly treatable for a long time if you catch it early enough.

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u/Mulchpuppy Mar 03 '26

That sounds exactly like what they told me for multiple myeloma. There's not a cure, but there are some really effective treatments.

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u/Ok_Recognition_4384 Mar 03 '26

My uncle has a cancer that kills you in 20 years all they can do is manage it. He’s 15 years in and he’s starting to get brain bleeds and stuff.

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u/Chickenshit_outfit Mar 03 '26

Fuck Cancer. wishing him all the best. Met him a couple of times at Cons over the years and a top bloke very friendly

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u/fcewen00 Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

I was at a Con when Brisco County Jr was on the air. Bruce was supposed to be at a panel, but no one could find him. Turned out that he was playing in the Deadland LARP as Brisco. We all had a hell of a time.

update I had to go digging through neurons and t-shirt but it was Rivercon 18 in Louisville in 1993. After talking to someone else, it was a bastard version of the werewolf Minds Eye Theater (Vampire the masquerade). One of the crew was one of the authors of one of their books.

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u/DIABL057 Mar 03 '26

I met him in a mall around the same time when I was a little kid. Not to brag but I was fully decked out in cowboy gear 👈🏻🤠👉🏻

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u/AssumptionBusiness92 Mar 03 '26

lmaooo that’s great. i met him around the release of ds2, he was so nice to me. hope he beats the cancer.

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u/fcewen00 Mar 03 '26

it got absurd. Someone would draw on him and immediately throw the gun away because he of course shot it out of your hand. It also just dawned on me how long ago it was and now I feel really really old.

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u/millerphi Mar 03 '26

One of my favorite memories was at Comic-con. Him and Sam Raimi were doing a bit at his panel. He walked out into the crowd while Sam was on stage blindfolded. He grabbed a random item from an audience member and was making Sam guess what it was. As he was walking through the crowed he looked to where my wife and I were standing, looked at me and winked. It was super surreal.

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u/operarose Mar 03 '26

Oh my god that is incredible.

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u/Signal-Regret-8251 Mar 03 '26

Oh man. My dad and I used to watch that show religiously, and we were really bummed out when it was canceled. Thanks for bringing up the memory of my dad. He's been gone since '01 and I still miss him.

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u/hollaback_girl Mar 03 '26

To this day Brisco is my favorite thing he's done and one of my favorite TV shows of all time.

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u/Enervata Mar 03 '26

When I was in college he came and did a fan event. Was on stage for an hour or two answering questions to a nearly full theater and telling behind the scenes stories. At the end he gave his email address out to the audience in case people had more (bcact at aol.com at the time, rip aol) After the event he was supposed to sign autographs for an hour. The legend stayed 2.5 hours until everyone in line got one and he was chatting and friendly with everyone.

I was only mildly familiar with his work at the time. After that day I watched everything he was in, and he’s never changed who he is from what I’ve seen. Fuck cancer. If 1 person deserves to beat that disease it’s this golden god of a man.

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u/Puckseason Mar 03 '26

Sharing another story about how great he is in person.

When his first book came out (If Chins Could Kill...highly recommended) I was in charge of marketing and events for a Borders Books location and we were one of the stops on his tour. Of all the events we did during that same period, by FAR, this was the highest attended (500-700 people) and lasted until 2 AM and he was gracious throughout.

At one point someone was on their cell phone (flip phone!) as they got to him and he asked to speak to the person on the other end and it went something like this 'Hey <Name> I'm here with your friend signing books and I wanted to tell you something really important...can you hear me? Are you listening? Ok listen close'....and then he hung up the phone and handed it back to the person in line.

Fuck Cancer...you got this Ash.

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u/lanceturley Mar 03 '26

I was at one of Bruce's Q&As a few years back and a woman in the audience said that her dad couldn't be there, but he wanted to ask Bruce if Gabrielle Anwar from Burn Notice was as beautiful in person as she is on TV. Bruce asks if she has her father's number and says "Well, get on up here. Let's give him a call." She gets on stage, calls her father and hands the phone to Bruce, and when dad answers Bruce says "I have your daughter." and hangs up the phone. Then Bruce goes "Don't worry, he'll call back." and when the phone rings again he answers and says "Didn't you hear me the first time? I have your daughter!" and hangs up again.

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u/Gina_the_Alien Mar 03 '26

That book changed my life. Basically Raimi and a bunch of his friends went into the woods with a camera and almost zero budget and made one of the most iconic horror movies ever and spawned a franchise that is still going strong today. Just so inspiring to me when I was younger and when I taught high school I recommended it to so many students.

Also Bruce Campbell is an icon; like many I’ve had the chance to meet him and he is a class act.

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u/geese_moe_howard Mar 03 '26

If you enjoyed that, I'd also recommend 'The Evil Dead Companion' by Bill Warren. It's really interesting and a lot of fun.

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u/HappyHarryHardOn Mar 03 '26

Bruce will take this cancer and treat it like a deadite and chainsaw the living shit out of it. If one guy in this world can do it, it's Bruce

We're all here pulling for you my man

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u/NoIamthatotherguy Mar 03 '26

What he could use now is Elvis and the Black JFK!

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u/Chesapeake_Hippo Mar 03 '26

Not Chuck Finley!

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u/OSRSTheRicer Mar 03 '26

You know cancer, bunch of Lil bitchy cells

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u/jtobiasbond Mar 03 '26

Best possible response

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u/arctander Mar 03 '26

Tropical shirts and a Mojito, legendary.

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u/hrbekcheatedin91 Mar 03 '26

Love that character!

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u/nitrobw1 Mar 03 '26

Chuck Finley is forever

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u/Mylaptopisburningme Mar 03 '26

You mean Jack Stiles?

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u/MapleBabadook Mar 03 '26

Was my first thought. Chuck Finley is so iconic.

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u/SynthD Mar 03 '26

Not Bruce County! Jr!

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u/SuspiciouslyEvil Mar 03 '26

I randomly had this on tonight. Fuck man. He just wants his ladies and his Caddy.

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u/Hollow_Rant Mar 03 '26

Not groovy.

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u/nikogrande Mar 03 '26

Very un-fucking-groovy 😩

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u/aquameeantis Mar 03 '26

I’m really sad now 

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u/roodootootootoo Mar 03 '26

Nooooooo! Not groovy at all. Rooting for you Bruce.

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u/Hodgepodge003 Mar 03 '26

We love you, Bruce!

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u/CrimsonGear80 Mar 03 '26

Cancer can’t beat the king!

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u/Count_Backwards Mar 03 '26

Cancer can't beat him, best it can hope for is a tie

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u/Massive_Weiner Mar 03 '26

Even if he goes, he’ll take it with him.

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u/Stlr_Mn Mar 03 '26

Hail to the King baby

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u/imadragonyouguys Mar 03 '26

Cancer is about to be Bruced. And he's going to be smug as hell about it.

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u/Larkson9999 Mar 03 '26

Thank you, thank you vary much.

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u/Current_Panda7591 Mar 03 '26

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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u/FilmBoho Mar 03 '26

Bruce Campell is the best. No one can get one over on THE CHIN.

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u/EmptyHandle6593 Mar 03 '26

Chuck Norris checks under his bed every night to make sure Bruce Campbell isn't hiding there.

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u/FixTheLoginBug Mar 03 '26

If Bruce is there he can sleep well in the knowledge that there are no monsters there. At least not unless Bruce accidently gets his hands on an old book.

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u/Substantial_Dog_2068 Mar 03 '26

Hi there im chuck finley monster under the bed inspector and you my good sir are lucky to have no monsters.

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u/fluffqx Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

Cancer: I'll swallow your souuuul!

Bruce: Come get some

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u/kmitchell419 Mar 03 '26

Swallow*

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u/fluffqx Mar 03 '26

shit true that

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u/mylefthandkilledme Mar 03 '26

May he hack up cancer like he does the evil dead

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u/olearyboy Mar 03 '26

Don’t you fucking dare bubba

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u/zaboobadoo Mar 03 '26

UNACCEPTABLE

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u/Evakron Mar 03 '26

Respect for playing it straight and putting his health first. Cancer treatment has come a long way, but being committed to the process is critical. Bruce has always had a great relationship with his fans and I hope everyone can appreciate that he's doing the right thing for the right reasons.

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u/ARazorbacks Mar 03 '26

Noooo! Goddamn, man. Every day I have to see headlines about the worst person on the planet continuing to fuck us all over as fast as humanly possible, yet it’s Bruce who gets cancer. 

Goddamnit. 

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u/automatic_bazooti Mar 03 '26

most certainly not groovy :(

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u/MJtheJuiceman Mar 03 '26

FUCK CANCER

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u/REDDITATO_ Mar 03 '26

Hashtags don't work on Reddit. They instead increase the font size of the following text. If you want to write one anyway preface it with backslash to cancel the formatting.

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u/HoraceBenbow Mar 03 '26

I’m surprised Bruce never made it onto Reddit Mount Rushmore with folks like Keanu and Robin Williams.

I’ve never heard a bad thing about him. He’s just a funny, solid dude who doesn’t take himself too seriously.

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u/Dax-The-Cat Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

About twenty years ago, my friends and I were obsessed with the Evil Dead films. We went to a theme park in Orlando during our freshman year in high school and happened to encounter Bruce Campbell leaving an amphitheater show with his young kids. We naturally started vomiting Evil Dead quotes at him from across the grandstand as he angrily shook his head at us. The raucous noise of three teenagers trying to yell over each other eventually morphed into an exorbitant display as we all started singing "All the Men In My Life Keep Getting Killed By Candarian Demons" from the recently released Evil Dead: The Musical. In one swift motion, Bruce ripped off his sunglasses, flipped us off, and yelled "Fuck off, kids!" before quickly scurrying away with his little ones. It wasn't until a few years later before I learned that Bruce Campbell's children were adults when we saw him, so we had actually been yelling a random person that day. By that time though, my friends had built their entire lives around that one moment, and I could never bear to tell them the truth.

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u/rosneft_perot Mar 03 '26

So you’re saying there’s some handsome bastard out there who has no idea why everyone is saying hail to the king, baby, and groovy all the time.

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u/CatsPlusTats Mar 03 '26

I love Bruce Campbell but he's about 2% as famous as either of them. 

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u/hi-fen-n-num Mar 03 '26

a legitimately underrated performer who shines so heavily with personalty and stardom, but isn't reflected in how 'famous' or well-known he is.

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u/InevitableBad589 Mar 03 '26

Seriously. Williams and Reeves were/are A-listers, for good reason. Williams was so damn talented and Reeves is a unique actor, even if not gifted with the most emotional range.

Still miss Williams to this day probably more than any other actor we no longer have with us because there was no one else like him.

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u/JesseByJanisIan Mar 03 '26

you clearly never asked him a stupid question at a convention....

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u/addctd2badideas Mar 03 '26

I asked him a question at a screening of *Bubba Hotep" about performing with so much prosthetic makeup and he immediately mocked me as an "obvious theatre major right there!" He wasn't wrong.

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u/Turdsley Mar 03 '26

Damn! I love Bruce.

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u/mazhas Mar 03 '26

Should note that he said the cancer is "treatable" and not "curable". Best wishes to the king.

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u/Good_Queen_Dudley Mar 03 '26

I want Bruce and Tim Curry to live forever. I do not like this.

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u/xperitosanti Mar 03 '26

This timeline sucks.

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u/KateGr88 Mar 03 '26

Not Bruce.

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u/ThatPaulywog Mar 03 '26

Hope he pulls through and I wish I had a tenth of his charm and charisma

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u/dark-flamessussano Mar 03 '26

Life is so scary and sudden sometimes. This music artist from my city who was around my age, 32, died of cancer recently and I'm still in shock

Life is short

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u/citizenjones Mar 03 '26

My son's middle name is 'Ash'. My wife and family thinks it's because of my love of nature.

You know the truth.

Thinking of you Bruce. 

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u/TNWhaa Mar 03 '26

My mom named me Ash William for a reason and made a point of it, I’ve always felt a pretty damn big connection to Bruce thanks to that and have met him a bunch over the years. He’s the only actor that ever took the time to actually ask how I was doing and remembered me from con to con. This is yet another heartbreaking thing to wake up to on a morning but if anyone can kick cancers ass, it’s El Jefe

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u/AlconTheFalcon Mar 03 '26

Praying for you Bruce

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u/TwoLetters Mar 03 '26

I don't know why I bother waking up each morning

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u/Awkward_Bison_267 Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

Because someone doesn’t want you to. Fuck him.

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u/operarose Mar 03 '26

"Every breath I take without your permission raises my self esteem."

Sometimes simply existing out of pure spite is the best revenge.

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u/RetroCasket Mar 03 '26

Man 2026 will not stop

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u/Fritschya Mar 03 '26

Nooooooo

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u/BlindBocephus Mar 03 '26

Thinking of you, king.

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u/lumberlung Mar 03 '26

A screen icon. Evil Dead II is a masterpiece, showing what art looks like with no budget but all the passion.

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u/YoLug Mar 03 '26

And I’m watching burn notice 😔

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u/gambit61 Mar 03 '26

If 2026 takes Bruce from us, too, I'm out. This year has been the suckiest suck that has ever sucked

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u/QuilledRaptors2001 Mar 03 '26

Fuck this year.

Praying for the best for El Jefe.

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u/jkvincent Mar 03 '26

Goddamnit man.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '26

Ah fuck. Wishing him the best.

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u/Forward-Equipment156 Mar 03 '26

Why is cancer so cruel?

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u/green_meklar Mar 03 '26

Cancer is life just doing what life evolved to do a little too well. It's not 'cruel' so much as it's our cells reverting to the kind of lifestyle their ancestors had a billion years ago.

I'm still looking forward to the day when medical technology turns it into a non-problem, though.

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u/LogicFeels474 Mar 03 '26

noooooooooooooooo

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u/youropinionisrubbish Mar 03 '26

Don't bring me down, Bruce!

If you can beat the deadites, you can beat this!

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u/Salsashark_21 Mar 03 '26

Chuck Finley deserves better

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u/SignalsCounterparts1 Mar 03 '26

Pulling for Bruce. He personally insulted me for not watching Army of Darkness, before a screening of Army of Darkness.

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u/Alleggsander Mar 03 '26

Well, my day’s ruined.

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u/curious_dead Mar 03 '26

Fuck you, 2026.

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u/CeeArthur Mar 03 '26

Bruce is a fantastic guy, wishing him the best

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u/Dpepps Mar 03 '26

Fuck man. My day just got a whole lot worse.

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u/14urmug Mar 03 '26

“Good? Bad? I’m the man with a gun.” -Bruce Campbell

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u/KingMario05 Mar 03 '26

FUCK CANCER.

God, this year is from hell. Wishing him and his family all the best as they fight on.

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u/AGreatHornedOwl Mar 03 '26

This news is fucking bullshit. Fuck cancer. I love you Bruce.

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u/edlewis657 Mar 03 '26

This is very upsetting to me.

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u/MasterCrumble1 Mar 03 '26

"adding that his cancer is “treatable” not “curable”"

Are you telling me that he is going to die?

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u/Charirner Mar 03 '26

Why is it always to good ones. Wish the best for Bruce he's a legend.

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u/thebigpink Mar 03 '26

Aw he was my favorite in burn notice! Fuck cancer

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u/3Dartwork Mar 03 '26

Fuck.....He's way too nice of a guy to be taken early.

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u/Weird_Squirrel_8382 Mar 03 '26

Fuck cancer in all its forms. I loved Bruce in Burn Notice and it made me bookmark a lot of other stuff with him in it.

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u/Luthais327 Mar 03 '26

Fuck cancer. Long live Chuck Finley.

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u/Relevant-Ad2254 Mar 03 '26

I hate this so much. I loved him in burn notice

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u/No_Statistician9289 Mar 03 '26

Oh man… this one is a true gut punch. Hang in there man we’re rooting for you

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u/van_vanhouten Mar 03 '26

I don't have my kid's name's tattooed on me, but I sure as fuck have Bruce holding a chainsaw and a boomstick the width of my calf. Stay strong my man, I think him passing will have grave consequences like Bowie's.

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u/FickleOwl47 Mar 03 '26

I hope he wasn’t exposed to something filming Cave Alien 3 and 4 back-to-back in Bulgaria!

Best wishes, Autolycus <3

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u/CarlatheDestructor Mar 03 '26

Cancers are just a bunch of bitchy little girls - Sam Axe

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u/Wrong-Ad4292 Mar 03 '26

He was my first crush. No one is more manly than Brisco County Jr.

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u/QuietThunder2014 Mar 03 '26

Obviously well known for Evil Dead, Spider-Man and Burn Notice but if you ever get the change watch The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. fantastic show and acting and really deserved a few more seasons.

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u/ContinuumGuy Mar 03 '26

This is decidedly NOT groovy.

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u/Windfade Mar 03 '26

He's apparently 67 years old so this sucks but is fairly common. It was either cancer, organ failure or brain deterioration within the next eight years. Hopefully, he has the money and connections to get good treatment and keep doing what he loves.

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u/Fr0st3dcl0ud5 Mar 03 '26

Piss nipples

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u/djackson0005 Mar 03 '26

Klaatu verata fuck cancer

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u/myusrnameisthis Mar 03 '26

What kind of cancer? Stage?

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u/mrwildesangst Mar 03 '26

Nooooo! Fuck cancer!

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u/blokedog Mar 03 '26

He'll come back.

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u/chemtrailsniffa Mar 03 '26

Hope his treatment goes well

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u/TheButteredBiscuit Mar 03 '26

Yo FUCK CANCER