Bubba Ho-Tep (Limited Collector's Edition)

Starring:Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Ella Joyce, Heidi Marnhout, Bob Ivy, Edith Jefferson, Larry Pennell, Reggie Bannister, Daniel Roebuck, Daniel Schweiger, Harrison Young, Linda Flammer, Cean Okada, Solange Morand, Karen Placencia, Bruce Rawitz, Joseph Primero, Chuck Williams, Timothy E. Goodwin, James Maley
Director: Don Coscarelli
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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Don Coscarelli directs and Bruce Campbell stars as the King of Camp in this intentionally over-the-top schlockfest. Bubba Ho-Tep is partially about Elvis Presley and partially about the title character, an Egyptian cowboy zombie, but mostly it is about camp. The movie is equal parts story and back story. We learn through narration and flashback how Elvis didn't really die, ending up instead in a rest home in East Texas with JFK (played by Ossie Davis), who was dyed black and had his brain removed, presumably for reasons of national security. Campbell and Davis realize that something strange is going on when their rest-home compatriots start dropping off suspiciously. The whole movie leads up to a final showdown to the death with the Egyptian cowboy zombie who has been sucking the souls of their fellow residents because he thought no one would notice. The movie unfolds a bit slowly; it is, after all, a geriatrics-fight-Egyptian-cowboy-zombie movie. However, one wishes this self-conscious movie's pacing took its cue from the atypically fast-moving zombie instead of from the senior-citizen Elvis and JFK. In the end, though, Campbell is flawless as the aged King; his accent, intonations, glasses, and trademark karate are at the same time sincere and over the top. --Brian Saltzman

Bubba Ho-Tep (Limited Collector's Edition)
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A C T I O N

All glory is fleeting

Bruce's Geriatric Joy Ride

Long live the King

Awesome Movie

Bubba Ho-Tep (Limited Collector's Edition)
Starring: Bruce Campbell , Ossie Davis , Ella Joyce , Heidi Marnhout , and Bob Ivy
Director: Don Coscarelli
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0001LQJMQ
Release Date: 2004-05-25

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Don Coscarelli directs and Bruce Campbell stars as the King of Camp in this intentionally over-the-top schlockfest. Bubba Ho-Tep is partially about Elvis Presley and partially about the title character, an Egyptian cowboy zombie, but mostly it is about camp. The movie is equal parts story and back story. We learn through narration and flashback how Elvis didn't really die, ending up instead in a rest home in East Texas with JFK (played by Ossie Davis), who was dyed black and had his brain removed, presumably for reasons of national security. Campbell and Davis realize that something strange is going on when their rest-home compatriots start dropping off suspiciously. The whole movie leads up to a final showdown to the death with the Egyptian cowboy zombie who has been sucking the souls of their fellow residents because he thought no one would notice. The movie unfolds a bit slowly; it is, after all, a geriatrics-fight-Egyptian-cowboy-zombie movie. However, one wishes this self-conscious movie's pacing took its cue from the atypically fast-moving zombie instead of from the senior-citizen Elvis and JFK. In the end, though, Campbell is flawless as the aged King; his accent, intonations, glasses, and trademark karate are at the same time sincere and over the top. --Brian Saltzman

Description

Mud Creek, Texas, is about to get all shook up. When mysterious deaths plague the Shady Rest retirement home, it's up to an aging, cantankerous "Elvis" (Bruce Campbell) and a decrepitand black"JFK" (Ossie Davis) to defeat a 3,000-year-old-Egyptian mummy with a penchant for sucking human souls! Can the King show the world that he can still take care of business?

Customer Reviews:

A C T I O N .......2007-06-15

Terrific, weird, campy, and funny in an offbeat way kind of movie. Definitely a late night classic. "Big check on that, baby!"

All glory is fleeting.......2007-06-03

Bruce Campbell in a sensitive and serious movie? I think we had better believe it! I just think that Campbell wants to show that the real horror is not some supernatural mummy, it is the very real horror of growing old and infirm. He just chooses to show it in the Bruce Campbell way!
Maybe one reason that I find Campbell's performance so touching is that the subject is so very personal to Campbell himself: he knows how fickle fame and glory really are, since he himself is a culthero for some, and totally unknown to most.
A weak mummy preys on the old and forgotten in a retirement home. An old an infirm Elvis Presley joins up with an even older and infirmer JFK to end its reign of terror. But it seems like the relatives and staff welcome its killings, since it gets rid of old coots, and frees up beds, and frees relatives of their responsibility.
The film is very funny, I think, and the story is good. Bruce Campbell really gives a quite deep and sensitive portrait of an aging Elvis, or Elvis impersonator, trying to restore his lost dignity.
However, maybe the final joke is at the audiences expense; I just can't get rid of the feeling that the film is really about two deluded old men hallucinating it all, escaping into a fantasy world before finally dying.

Bruce's Geriatric Joy Ride.......2007-05-13

I'm sure my total devotion to a well-made Bruce Campbell vehicle is pretty obvious from the gushing review I'm about to write, but seriously... the guy's ENTERTAINING, and he obviously had a blast(minus all the make-up) personifying a not-so-dead King o' Rock n' Roll. Although the low budget probably scared away several potential movie-goers, it is clear from the first ten minutes that a film like this couldn't have been made with any degree of plausibility if the effects were to par with popcorn blockbusters, quite the opposite in fact: armies of computer-generated creepy-crawlies would only detract from the believability of the somewhat convoluted plot. Thus, all the action revolves around, and depends completely upon, the personifications of Elvis and JFK so lovingly crafted by Campbell and the late Ossie Davis (respectively). The way Campbell returns humanity to the image of a cult icon tarnished by his falsified demise admittedly feels closer to parody than homage, but is certainly and undeniably touching. The subtle emotional reactions he brings to parts such as a scene near the start of the film in which the daughter of a resident at the rest home throws away her father's prized Purple Heart are the moments you'll leave the film remembering, not his jaunty and bizarre tries to imitate the King's legendary gyrating hips or his flagrant displeasure at not being able to "get it up". That said, the movie also does a great job of using the mummy's powers as a metaphor for the manner in which the souls of patients frequently stagnate and then slowly degenerate in rest homes. IT should be viewed less as a straightforward hybrid of comedy and horror and more of an introspective look at the life of every senile old man who never got the chance to tell us of his marvelous adventures because we simply couldn't be bothered to listen. Love it or hate it, this movie makes a statement.

Long live the King.......2007-05-07

5 stars, because it succeeds in virtually every aspect without massive special effects and extravagant locale.
Brilliant Elvis impersonation by Bruce Campbell, wonderful but sad representation of old people in a care facility.
The storyline is very clever and witty and the acting throughout good, humorous, unselfconscious and believable.
This is one movie that can be enjoyed often. The almost-plausible scenario, the simplicity, the acting and the humour make this one of my favourites.

Awesome Movie.......2007-03-27

I netflixed this movie initally to watch it and it was awesome. I absolutely loved every minute of the film. The acting was superb. The story great and original. It was dramatic, funny, scary...all rolled into one fine package of a film. I strongly recommend this film to every film lover and Elvis fan. I mean even the name itself, "Bubba Ho-Tep" is so inviting. What more could you ask for from a film.

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Bubba Ho-Tep (Special Edition)
Starring: Bruce Campbell , Ossie Davis , Ella Joyce , Heidi Marnhout , and Bob Ivy
Director: Don Coscarelli
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000QQKW38
Release Date: 2007-08-07

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