Bruce Campbell has been a cult movie icon for generations, starting with The Evil Dead in 1981. Aside from playing the shotgun-wielding, chainsaw-arm, S-Mart employee Ash in three Evil Dead films and a spin-off TV show, Campbell has appeared as in several movies of equal oddness. Here’s our definitive ranking of Groovy Bruce’s films, watch them all immediately.

8. Man with the Screaming Brain

The little-known sci-fi flick features Campbell as a man cursed with a second man’s mind within his own - and no, this is not the most far-out movie on the list. The idea for the film had bounced around Hollywood for nearly 20 years before The Sci-Fi Channel decided to help fund it. For all of you Bruce Campbell mega-fans, The Man with the Screaming Brain was adapted into a four-part comic series by Dark Horse.

7. My Name is Bruce

In this film, Bruce Campbell plays a fictionalized version himself fighting some real demons with teenagers. So it’s basically like any other movie on this list, except that Campbell gets to make fun of himself and the fact that he will forever remain a loved yet still on the B-list cult figure.

6. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Okay, so this is actually an animated movie for kids based on the wildly popular children’s book of the same name, but Bruce Campbell actually had a fairly major voice over role playing the mayor. This isn’t Campbell’s only voice acting work - he’s made appearances in films such as Cars 2, the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie, and The Ant Bully.

5. The Evil Dead

Sam Raimi’s 1981 cult horror classic about kids getting into some trouble at a random cabin is where Bruce Campbell truly got his start. The Evil Dead spawned a behemoth franchise that includes comics, movies, television shows, video games, and even action figures. The first film in the series introduces audiences to Ash and his seemingly never-ending issues with the Necronomicon, an ancient text that summons Deadites. For God’s sake man, don’t read from that book!

4. Bubba Ho-Tep

Bubba Ho-Tep is probably Bruce Campbell’s strangest film but also arguably one of the best. Based on a short story of the same name, Bubba Ho-Tep stars Campbell as an elderly man in a nursing home who claims to be Elvis. He, along with his buddy Jack, a black man who claims to be JFK, fight off an evil mummy in order to save their community - and the world. This is actually a movie - if you haven’t seen it, seriously, run.

3. Army of Darkness

The third in the so-called Evil Dead trilogy, Army of Darkness follows Ash as he accidentally travels back in time to the fourteenth century and is forced to face off against knights - and of course, Deadites. There was initially discussion of a sequel to be called “Army of Darkness 2” but the idea was transcended into a TV series on Starz entitled “Ash vs. Evil Dead,” which is about to air its second season.

2. Spider Man II

Okay, so Bruce Campbell didn’t star in this, but he did have memorable cameos in both Spider Man I and II. The box-office smash films were directed by Sam Raimi of Evil Dead fame, so it was almost a certainty that Groovy Bruce would appear. Spider Man II is arguably better due to its improved special effects and the film’s complicated villain Doc Ock.

1. Evil Dead II

Typically speaking, sequels are never better than the original thing, but that’s simply not the case with Evil Dead II. This movie was not so much a second act, but more a re-imagining of what happened in the first film. Ash and his girlfriend Linda head up to a creepy cabin and he once again finds the Necronomicon and a tape of an old professor reading from it, leading to a total blood bath and some serious shotgun skills. Critics and fans alike agree that Evil Dead II is probably one of the best horror movies of all time, and certainly the best in the series. Hail to the king, baby.