Horror History: Don Coscarelli’s BUBBA HO-TEP Is Now 19 Years Old
Mike Sprague
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On this day in horror history, Don Coscarelli’s Bubba Ho-Tep was released in 2002. Bruce Campbell star as Elvis Presley with Ossie Davis as John F. Kennedy. The film features a cameo by Reggie Bannister from Coscarelli’s Phantasm series.
Don Coscarelli (Phantasm) co-produced and directed the film from a screenplay he co-wrote based on the novella of the same name by Joe R. Lansdale.
Synopsis:
After falling into a lengthy coma following a freak accident involving hip gyration, a now aged Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) wakes up in an East Texas nursing home, where he befriends Jack (Ossie Davis), an African-American senior who claims to be President John F. Kennedy. After residents of their quiet retirement community start dying of dubiously unnatural causes, Elvis and Jack discover that the perpetrator is Bubba Ho-Tep (Bob Ivy), an Egyptian mummy with murderous intentions.
The film sports a 79% approval rating over on Rotten Tomatoes. The Critics Consensus: The best movie to star both the King and JFK.
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