Bubba Ho-Tep (2003)
78 %
Reviews Counted: 100 Fresh: 78 Rotten:22 Average Rating: 6.8/10
Consensus:
The best movie to star both the King and JFK.
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Theatrical Release: Sep 19, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: Don Coscarelli's BUBBA HO-TEP finds Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) alive but not so well, living in a small Texas nursing home. Although he's preoccupied with his ailments and his memories, the elderly Elvis befriends another resident who thinks he's John F. Kennedy (Ossie Davis) when they... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Ella Joyce, Larry Pennell, Bob Ivy
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A mismatched marriage of offbeat character study and unimaginative horror riffs.
09/24/07
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Writer-director Don Coscarelli piles on unpleasant details and cynical asides as if they were the stuff of wisdom, though they seem intended to produce guffaws rather than thoughts
09/24/07
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This absurdly clever caper is elevated by Bruce Campbell's pensive Elvis into a moving meditation on the diminutions of age and the vagaries of fame.
08/14/07
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Don Coscarelli still doesn't know how to make cookie-cutter genre films. Let's hope he never learns how.
08/11/07
Not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination, but there's enough here to entertain even those for whom 'cult' is a four-letter word.
04/01/06
There’s plenty of scatological humour and knockabout fun to get one through the slower passages.
02/09/06
It’s outrageous and full of novel ideas that will tickle the fancy of anyone who is stimulated by the absurd.
02/18/05
There may be some deeper meaning to all this madness about living beyond your prime and regret, but it just barely escapes me how it all fits in
12/27/04
the true horror here, far from being some middle-eastern revenant in a cowboy hat, is the indignity of disease, the anonymity of old age, and the inevitability of death
10/30/04
A sharply written, surprisingly moving little film with a terrific performance by Bruce Campbell.
10/19/04
Bubba Ho-Tep tries ineffectually to be both a lyrical character study and a darkly satirical horror flick.
09/30/04
About halfway through this offbeat horror comedy you realise you're watching a cult classic.
09/19/04
Actually pretty quiet and could be considered seriously pensive if it wasn't for its inherent goofiness.
06/02/04
Fry up a peanut butter and 'nana sandwich, hop in your Cadillac and take one last ride with the King.
04/08/04
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