Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 104
Fresh: 82 | Rotten: 22
The best movie to star both the King and JFK.
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 8
The best movie to star both the King and JFK.
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An ancient evil finds resistance in the most unlikely of places in this oddball comedy horror effort from Phantasm director Don Coscarelli. Resting in the confines of a Mud Creek, TX, nursing home after fading into obscurity following his departure from the limelight, an aging and embittered Elvis (Bruce Campbell) befriends a delusional patient named Jack (Ossie Davis) who claims to be John F. Kennedy. It seems that at the height of his popularity Elvis had switched identities with a convincing
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Ella Joyce
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Bob Ivy
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Heidi Marnhout
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Larry Pennell
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Daniel Roebuck
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Harrison Young
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Daniel Schweiger
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All Critics (107) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (89) | Rotten (22) | DVD (39)
A mismatched marriage of offbeat character study and unimaginative horror riffs.
Top CriticWriter-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
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.
There's plenty of scatological humour and knockabout fun to get one through the slower passages.
Fry up a peanut butter and 'nana sandwich, hop in your Cadillac and take one last ride with the King.
It gets by on a kind of demented charm.
An original horror movie worthy of your attention; original horror movies are hard to come by these days...
Don Coscarelli still doesn't know how to make cookie-cutter genre films. Let's hope he never learns how.
Elvis is in a geriatric care centre with JFK (who's black) and he's got to kick some ancient Mummy ass. What else is there to say?
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.
It's outrageous and full of novel ideas that will tickle the fancy of anyone who is stimulated by the absurd.
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
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
A sharply written, surprisingly moving little film with a terrific performance by Bruce Campbell.
A fiendishly funny comedy horror.
Audience Reviews for Bubba Ho-Tep
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- Elvis Presley: Come and get it, you undead sack of s^#@.
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- Kemosabe: Asshole! Asshole!
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Foreign Titles
- Bubbah Ho-Tep (UK)
