However, this role is the most subtle I have ever seen Campbell - and his performance is brilliant. This is a hard thing for Campbell to pull off, because his charismatic nature usually never lets you forget who you are watching underneath the character. When I first saw Bubba Ho-tep, I actually forgot I was watching Campbell as Elvis because the character so engrossed me. When playing someone like Elvis, there is a fine line between patronizing the legend and doing it well, and Campbell does the latter. Ho-tep can only be described as a “horror dramedy.” It could literally fit into about any genre on the shelves at your local video store.Ĭult favorite Bruce Campbell ( Evil Dead, Army of Darkness) delivers the performance of his career as Elvis Presley. It’s not really a drama, because it has a mummy. It’s not really a comedy, because of the dramatic situations. It’s not really a horror movie, because there are too many comedic situations. But Elvis and JFK are onto his game - and they intend to stop him.īubba Ho-tep is a movie that defies easy description. With his cowboy duds and trained scarab beetles, Bubba has been killing off the old-timers and sucking out their souls in order to give him life.

In addition to Elvis and JFK, another personality is roaming the old folks’ halls. Just like no one believes Elvis, no one believes he is JFK. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.Īpparently, after the botched assassination attempt in 1963, the government filled Kennedy’s head with sand, dyed him black and hid him. So now, instead of living out his days at Graceland, he is stuck in a retirement home - with bad hips, a growth on his cock and not a soul around who believes he is the King.Ī loner at the home, Elvis has only one friend. Then, the fake Elvis died on the toilet and the real Elvis lost the contract in a freak BBQ explosion. However, only Elvis and the impersonator knew about the deal. Elvis is alive and well and living at the Mud Creek Shady Rest Convalesence Home in Mud Creek, Texas.Īpparently, many years ago, he got tired of living the rock-star life and switched places with an Elvis impersonator.

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