Bubba Ho-Tep

I finnaly managed to get a quiet moment to myself to watch a movie.

This whole horror movie thing is a lot more difficult with kids, I find, since I don’t want to expose them to what I am watching, and in anycase, by the time evening falls and they are safely asleep in their beds, all I want to do is follow suit.

Anyhow, I managed to break the wanting to see movie, and change it to saw great movie and loved it! Yay.

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This movie was made by Don Coscarelli, on a minute budget, so small in fact, that there is not even one Elvis song in the movie due to the very high licensing cost…

That in itself is some accomplishment - making an Elvis movie without any Elvis music in it, is not only a strange concept but horrific and comical at once.

This pretty much embodies the spirit of the whole movie which is original in concept, hysterical funny and horrific at once.

Besides the horror comedy genres this movie manages to cross over into other genres as well, and deals with a lot of socially interesting topics.

Necrotica Cinema says

The film also succeeds because it successfully gets outside the horror genre and is able to explore other issues such as aging in a culture that treasures youth and the abandonment of the elderly. It also explores, via Elvis’ introspective narrations, the real meaning of success and the value of family and the regrets of a man in waning years who now knows it is too late to say and do all the things he really wanted to do.

You know I am not into spoilers - so in a nutshell, Elvis is really Elvis, but he is pretending to be Sebastian Haff, an Elivs impersonator, who was the one who died on a toilet in 1977. So we have Elvis pretending to be someone pretending to be Elvis.

His best buddie is Jack, a black man who insists he is President Kennedy who was died black after the atemped assasination and left in a nursing home to rot…

The horror element is a life sucking mummy in the body of a ghost cowboy.

Bizzar. Thought evoking. Amusing and some what horrific.