Bruce Campbell's 'Reservoir Dogs' Meets 'Birdman' Thriller Resurfaces on Free Streaming

There are two things ubiquitous within independent filmmaking: the indie boom of the ’90s, and Bruce Campbell. The former is what led to the rise of filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, Robert Rodriguez, and Kevin Smith, and the latter is famously the star of the most inexpensive horror film to ever become a massive franchise (he’s also currently touring with a new self-financed movie, Ernie & Emma). While most people view Campbell as an icon of B-movies and genre films, it doesn’t often come up that he was also a part of the wave of ’90s independent films that proved you could do a lot with very little. In fact, he was part of one of the more ambitious but lesser-known outings of the era, when Campbell stepped away from horror and into the heist subgenre of crime films, partaking in a filmmaking innovation that was decades ahead of its time in 1997’s Running Time.