Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by cult author Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death", then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds. Written by Eric Shovand
So that is the synopsis for Bubbo Ho-Tep, now when I first watched this movie years ago, I was
not aware what I was getting into. Now that I have gone into this movie again going into it with the proper mindset I can truly say I enjoyed it.
Truth be told anything with Bruce Campbell is a good thing to enjoy...even when he is playing old Elvis in a retirement home.
It is a little slow on the uptake but stick with it and you are almost guaranteed a good payoff if you are not put of by crude humor like below:
"It'd been two presidential elections since I'd had a boner like that."
Like I said, Bruce makes even the crudest lines good.
Well would you look at that....after a mini break three posts in one day. Tomorrow my girl is getting fit for her braces and then Friday she is getting a tooth pulled before her braces get put on...my nerves are shot and I am sure I will have plenty to say on this later.
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