150 Words About . . .BUBBA HO-TEP (2002)
By James Newman
I promise you’ve never seen anything like this.
Don Coscarelli (Phantasm) directed this adaptation of a novella by Joe R. Lansdale. It’s the story of Elvis (yep, that Elvis, played to perfection here by genre icon Bruce Campbell), who’s been living in a convalescent home since the world last saw him. His only pal is JFK (Ossie Davis!), who claims Uncle Sam dyed him black and replaced his brain with sand after that nasty business on 11/22/63.
It gets crazier.
The duo team up to battle a mummy that’s killing off their fellow senior citizens. When the creature gets hungry it sucks its victims’ souls out of their butthole. And there’s been a lot of butthole-suckin’ lately in the Shady Rest Retirement Home.
Told you it was cray-cray.
At the same time, Bubba Ho-Tep is a poignant story of friendship and growing old. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll say WTF.
