Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
Genre: Horror / Comedy
Duration: 92 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Don Coscarelli
Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis and Bob Ivy
IMDb score:
6,9 (54.374)
Releasedate: 9 June 2002
Bubba Ho-Tep plot
"The King vs. The King of the Dead."
Elvis Presley isn't dead, he's still alive! Today he lives in a retirement home in Texas. A few years before his death, he seems to have exchanged life with an Elvis impersonator. His old age is hard on him. This changes when he and a fellow resident, a black man who thinks he is John F. Kennedy, find out that a stranded Egyptian mummy is using the retirement home for soul-winning. With the walker in hand, they decide to fight together.
Actors and actresses
Elvis Presley / Sebastian Haff
John F. "Jack" Kennedy
The Nurse
Callie Thomas
Bubba Ho-tep
Elderly Woman
Kemosabe
Rest Home Administrator
Hearse Driver
Hearse Driver
Reviews & comments
Shadowed
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- 11606 messages
- 6831 votes
uh.
That Campbell. He knows how to choose his movies. I don't think he's a bad actor in the horror world either. But certainly not the best either. I think he is just a little too confident about his choices, but secretly that often makes him very nice. That, of course, suits his types.
The story is once again completely stupid. I really wonder who could come up with this. Not me in any case. Should really do my best for it. Fortunately, the effect is not as catastrophic as it might have been previously suspected.
Visually at least not very high quality. Reminded me a bit of a Carpenter who is drunk. A rather clumsy tone that has been thrown over the film, but delivered with a certain corniness that changes the tension for a comic tone.
Most of the power actually comes from the characters, because in the field of horror you get nothing. A mummy is also a pretty boring thing. Then give me Elvis & Kennedy shooting zombies upside down. This will probably interest me a little more.
But the characters are also quite nice at times. Campbell acting a little more than his general roles, more dramatic in general. And he does well in that. I just think Davis is a little funnier. It also made me laugh a bit.
But in the end it's not very hilarious, and the film gets boring pretty quickly. The pace and horror could have been a little higher. Now you mainly have an hour and a half of corniness that never manages to be completely interesting.
Nevertheless, a nice attempt, but not quite enough to really make it a guilty pleasure. The horror could have been a lot louder and more clumsy. Now the film mainly fails on horror and if the comedy is not optimally hilarious, there is ultimately not much to experience. Nevertheless, a little extra points for the silly idea.
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Collins
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- 7485 messages
- 4453 votes
Judging by the names Bruce Campbell and (to a lesser extent) Don Cascarelli, you'd probably expect a juicy piece of horror. However, Bubba Ho-Tep is not a juicy horror film. The film is rather a character sketch with supernatural elements.
Quietly and unhurriedly staged, the film focuses on two main characters. The main one is called Elvis. He holds inner monologues which he presents to the viewer in a lethargic and melancholy manner. They are reflections on remarkable events in the retirement home where he is currently being cared for rather shabbily. Furthermore, he revels rather in self-pity as he deals with memories from the bygone days of success.
The other character is black and pretends to be John F. Kennedy.
Elvis: No offense, Jack, but President Kennedy was a white man.
JFK: They dyed me this color! That's how clever they are!
The ridiculous interpretation of the characters obviously says something about the tone of the film. It is loose, mildly mocking and absurd. The story about a mummy who manifests himself in the retirement home is therefore nonsensical but humorous and has just enough curious content to keep you reasonably amused.
Elvis' philosophy of life typifies the nonsensical quality of the film: „Everything you do is either worthless or sadly amusing“.
And that's how I experienced the film. As casual nonsense that is reasonably amusing in a tragicomic way.
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Noodless
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- 10087 messages
- 6205 votes
Terrible.....a dragon of a movie!
The cockroach fight was the only fun scene in the movie.
The film is just very boring with often bland and annoying dialogues.
The characters are not interesting and also in terms of horror it is very tame.
The high score here is at least a mystery to me. 2/10
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