“Evil Dead” in respect to “Evil Dead 2” Main Character Personality Differences From the Original to the Remake “Evil Dead” and “Evil Dead 2” are both late 80’s horror movies starring Bruce Campbell as Ash, a quiet guy in his early 20’s that ends up hacking to death his demon posessed friends to avoid death. In the original “Evil Dead”, Ash tends to run from any of the daemons and scary things that come his way, until there is no one left and he is forced to protect himself ....