One of the more recent cult films to be reviewed on this blog, Bubba Ho-tep is a delight from beginning to middle to end.
Starring Bruce 'the chin' Campbell (see earlier Evil Dead review) as The King (that's Elvis to you non believers), retired from the limelight, having swapped places as the height of his success with a doppelganger and ended up in a shady retirement home for the clearly, mentally deranged. I say this only because Bruce happens to share accommodation with JFK, played by Ossie Davis (Ossie happens to be a man of colour, JFK, if I remember rightly, wasn't, although Ossie explains this away masterfully).
So, The King and JFK hang out and one day, on its tour of the south lands of the US of A, a truck, carrying a container with a rather dried out old Egyptian Mummy inside, bucks a road and it's set loose. Cue the greatest of all slow-mo scenes, involving an aged rock star with a zimmer frame, an aged president in a motorized wheelchair and an even more aged mummy. Let battle commence.
Wonderful!
Budget: $1,000,000
Fun Fact: Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires is due for release soon...ish.
Starring Bruce 'the chin' Campbell (see earlier Evil Dead review) as The King (that's Elvis to you non believers), retired from the limelight, having swapped places as the height of his success with a doppelganger and ended up in a shady retirement home for the clearly, mentally deranged. I say this only because Bruce happens to share accommodation with JFK, played by Ossie Davis (Ossie happens to be a man of colour, JFK, if I remember rightly, wasn't, although Ossie explains this away masterfully).
So, The King and JFK hang out and one day, on its tour of the south lands of the US of A, a truck, carrying a container with a rather dried out old Egyptian Mummy inside, bucks a road and it's set loose. Cue the greatest of all slow-mo scenes, involving an aged rock star with a zimmer frame, an aged president in a motorized wheelchair and an even more aged mummy. Let battle commence.
Wonderful!
Budget: $1,000,000
Fun Fact: Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires is due for release soon...ish.
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