Krug
Newshound
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"Bubba Ho-Tep" probably has some of the deepest character development ever seen in a horror film, comedy, or a cross of the genres, as this is. We find Elvis Presley (Campbell), the King of Rock n' Roll, 68 years old, grey in the sideburns and recovering from a broken hip and lengthy coma. He resides in Mud Creek Shady Rest Convalescence Home, in Mud Creek, Texas, and suffers from bad dreams, memories of the past relentlessly haunting him, strange visions, guilt, remorse, and sorrow. Elvis fleshes out his past in great, emotional detail, from the reasons he switched places with an Elvis impersonator named Sebastian Haff, to the accident that landed him in Mud Creek.
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Which maybe can't be said for Jack Kennedy, the former U.S. president, played with perfected graceful insanity by the fantastic Ossie Davis. JFK has his own reasons for still being alive, as well as his own phobias... particularly, the fear of being assassinated. So when an apparent infestation of large, aggressive bugs shows up at Shady Rest, followed by a scary figure picking off the elderly residents one by one, day after day, Jack gets worried. After he's actually attacked, he enlists Elvis's help, and the geriatric duo find a new zest for life in the adventure of saving Shady Rest from having its residents' souls sucked out through their arseholes by a mummy wearing cowboy duds.
Jack Kennedy + Elvis vs The Mummy. How can you not love it?
"Bubba Ho-Tep" probably has some of the deepest character development ever seen in a horror film, comedy, or a cross of the genres, as this is. We find Elvis Presley (Campbell), the King of Rock n' Roll, 68 years old, grey in the sideburns and recovering from a broken hip and lengthy coma. He resides in Mud Creek Shady Rest Convalescence Home, in Mud Creek, Texas, and suffers from bad dreams, memories of the past relentlessly haunting him, strange visions, guilt, remorse, and sorrow. Elvis fleshes out his past in great, emotional detail, from the reasons he switched places with an Elvis impersonator named Sebastian Haff, to the accident that landed him in Mud Creek.
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Which maybe can't be said for Jack Kennedy, the former U.S. president, played with perfected graceful insanity by the fantastic Ossie Davis. JFK has his own reasons for still being alive, as well as his own phobias... particularly, the fear of being assassinated. So when an apparent infestation of large, aggressive bugs shows up at Shady Rest, followed by a scary figure picking off the elderly residents one by one, day after day, Jack gets worried. After he's actually attacked, he enlists Elvis's help, and the geriatric duo find a new zest for life in the adventure of saving Shady Rest from having its residents' souls sucked out through their arseholes by a mummy wearing cowboy duds.
Jack Kennedy + Elvis vs The Mummy. How can you not love it?
