It’s not weird that Bruce Campbell is getting a film festival in his name – it’s weird that it’s taken this long.

The Evil Dead star and producer has teamed up with Philadelphia’s Awesome Fest for the Bruce Campbell Horror Film Festival later this month. The four-day festival will run August 21-24, right alongside Wizard World Chicago in the city of Rosemont, IL (that it’s not taking place in Michigan is a damned shame).

Campbell isn’t just lending his name to the fest – he’ll be participating during a scheduled Q&A where I presume 99% of the questions will be about his work in the first Maniac Cop, and what it was like to work with Tom Atkins and Robert Z’Dar.

Campbell is really more than just The Evil Dead at this point: the character actor on the end of one of Hollywood’s most prominent chins is also a filmmaker himself, having directed and produced several movies. It’s nice to see him throwing some support out to a few movies that might not get seen outside of Netflix or VOD. Killers and Starry Eyes in particular have been getting some good word of mouth on the festival circuit, and I’m bummed that I can’t be there to check them out.