I've just bought the collector's edition of this!
Bruce Campbell rocks the film as Elvis and Ossie Davis as JFK. How can you not like a film with Elvis and JFK fighting a soul-sucking mummy!
Yeah, I'm buying this now that the price has dropped way down.
I liked it, though I can see why some others didn't. It has a...different pace.
I like this film for so many reasons, some of which were touched on in earlier threads.
This time I'll just comment on the "tone" of the picture. Most of the action takes place in shadows and darkness with very few others around. It keeps a weird, dreamlike tone throughout, almost like "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari". It has that quality of "otherness" that Lovecraft said was intergal to the success of any horror story.
Sure, it's played for laughs, but the fact that it keeps its distinctive feel througout is just good movie-making.
Yeah, it's weird as all getout, but really quite a good picture. Campbell, especially, underplays Elvis & is all the more effective for it.
peter johnson/denny crane
Its one of those rare creature features that focuses less on the creature and more on the human characters...and executes it perfectly. Most others that do so, and only show the creature at the end, make a very boring and pointless movie. Yet Bubba Ho-Tep did more than enough to make my top list of movies I've seen this year.
The makers have already agreed to a sequel as Creature-corner.com reported. Can't wait.
I know Campbell is available, but will Ossie Davis return?
Hey! Everyone's dead!!
How could the sequel be real? . . .
peter johnson/denny crane
I don't think it's a Sequal per-say I think what the series is hoping to become is just a bunch of various ways for Elvis to Die that's more honorable then on a toilet. Each time fighting a different universal monster classic but with a bizarre twist (like cowboy Mummy)
>I don't think it's a Sequal per-say I think what the series is hoping to become is
>just a bunch of various ways for Elvis to Die that's more honorable then on a
>toilet.
"Oh my god, you killed Elvis!"
"You bastards!"
Bruce Campbell is the demi god of the B-film industry. I loved Bubba-Ho Tep and I highly recommend it to any "true fan" of B-films.