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movie review - Bubba Ho-Tep

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is an outstanding flick featuring in the incomperable Bruce Campbell. It's about Elvis, set in the current time. He's an aged, bitter, and incapacitated man, living in a retirement home that is also home to JFK (played, perhaps surprisingly, by Ossie Davis) and the Lone Ranger.

At the outset of the movie, he's a delipidated shell of his former self, fighting a cancerous node on his penis and confined to his bed. But when "JFK" convinces him that there's an ancient Egyptian soul-sucking demon running loose in the home, he begins to take on a new life, rising to fight the evil.

This is a bizarre film, no doubt about it. It combines dramatic, horror, and comedic elements, and pulls it off through largely through the delivery by Davis and Campbell.

You have to see this one.

Recommended.