#bubba ho tep

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BUBBA HO-TEP (2002) dir. Don Coscarelli

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Bubba Ho-Tep, 2002, dir. Don Coscarelli

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On March 7, 2007, Bubba Ho-Tep was screened at the South by Southwest Film Festival.

Here's a new drawing of Brcue Campbell to celebate!

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just watched bubba ho-tep for the first time. what the fuck did i just witness. i have been enlightened

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Happy 65th Birthday, to the man who will forever be my lifelong crush, Bruce Campbell! 😍❤️

[callmebrycelee]

HAPPY 65TH BIRTHDAY, BRUCE CAMPBELL!!!

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The recent end of the fiscal year and/or the upcoming end of the calendar year meant that our departments were looking to spend as much of their budget as they could before the deadline. For the librarian who orders A/V materials, this means buying DVDs you’ve never heard of. I don’t even know what this is.

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What a beautiful portrait of The King. Austin Butler, who? There were so many elements brought up that I think Elvis really grappled with. Aging: his face-lift & constant hair dying. Fame: No one else has experienced his trajectory in life, and no one ever will. He really was constrained by fame and was so ill-equipped to handle it. His relationship with women and sexuality: all the talk of Priscilla and Lisa-Marie really got me. Faith and what comes next after death: Elvis was deeply spiritual (queue up The Searcher, folks, its in the title!). I want to know where the bug prop is today. This is filmed in a really cool way. The way they captured the nursing home felt like Barton Fink and those dream sequences were (dare I say it) Lynchian, as were the feel of the side character residents. I loved the commitment to the characters from everyone involved. Ossie David was just amazing and so funny. He somehow grounded this whole thing while also being the most out there character. I love what this movie says about how we treat old folks. Let's get decadent! Also all the makeup was pretty great. I had tears forming from laughing so hard - the part where Jack explains that Bubba Ho-tep probably has to shit out the souls that he eats. A moment before he explained that I had that exact question!! For a script to anticipate what I wanted to know as an audience member twenty years after it was made just floored me. I loved how Elvis in this shared Ethan Hawke's "Shit-Ass movies" take from The King (2017). I also held back from tearing up when Elvis talked about Lisa-Marie and regrets. What a life she had (RIP). My life is better for having seen this. I really think Elvis cared about the state of his soul a lot, and I love that this movie gets that. The ending really makes me tear up. I love this film. All is well.

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Bubba Ho-Tep, 2002, dir. Don Coscarelli

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OCTOBER HORROR MOVIES 2022 (BONUS #3) BUBBA HO-TEP

As I mentioned in my review of John Dies at the End, this movie was written and directed by the guy who created Phantasm. It's nothing like Phantasm, unless I missed the Phantasm sequel where old Elvis and Black JFK fight a mummy in a retirement home. By the way, that is the actual plot of this movie. In the world of this film, Elvis got burned out and temporarily swapped places with an Elvis impersonator to get a rest, only to have the impostor OD on a toilet, leaving the real Elvis stuck with his low-rent life. Now, he's an old curmudgeon in a crappy nursing home that also happens to house an old Black man who is convinced that he is actually John F. Kennedy, race-swapped and secreted away by government forces. And then the evil mummy shows up.

Let's get the obvious out of the way: no one else but Bruce Campbell could play an old, self-loathing, foul-mouthed Elvis. In fact, no one else should even try. On that terrible day that is hopefully far off in the future when Bruce Campbell finally goes to meet his maker, it should be enforced under penalty of law that no one ever again be allowed to play a decrepit version of the King. Campbell as Elvis is a goddamn delight, even when he's just lying in bed muttering about how his dick doesn't work anymore. He's still got that Bruce Campbell humor and charm under the old-age makeup, but I suspect that the real Elvis would have been just as vulgar and off-putting, had he actually lived long enough to get old. (Fun fact: Elvis Presley was actually kind of a shitty human being)

Overall, the movie is not actually as bonkers as the concept would suggest. A good deal of it is just Bruce Campbell as Elvis bickering with people. Ossie Davis as "Jack" is a great foil to Campbell's Elvis, and the best parts are just the two of them arguing with each other. There's also that mummy draining old folks' souls that they eventually have to deal with, and, of course, there's a big showdown at the end; but mostly it's about Elvis finally coming to terms with the fact that he had never actually done anything in his life that wasn't ultimately hollow and self-serving. It's a small, odd film, and it's not going to blow your mind, but it is worth watching, if for no other reason than to wallow in Bruce Campbell's version of Elvis.

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🎃 Notable films that were released on October 10th...

Barbarella (1968).

Shivers (1975)(Canada).

Deadly Friend (1986).

Jack-O (1995).

Bubba Ho-Tep (2003)(limited).

Quarantine (2008).

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To my list it goes...

Bubba Ho-Tep Directed by Don Coscarelli (2002)

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SUMMARY: When residents of their nursing home start dying of dubious causes, an aged Elvis and an African-American senior who claims to be President John F. Kennedy discover that the perpetrator is an Egyptian mummy with murderous intentions.

Mod Sus: That's a movie description and a half.