Hail to the king, baby
Posted on May 25, 2004 @ 2:19 pm
Geeks rejoice, for the award-winning film Bubba Ho-tep is out on DVD today! Not familiar with Bubba Ho-tep? Here’s a synopsis from the film’s website:
We find the King (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his ?death?, then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds?
How can you resist a set-up like that? Now, if you’ll pardon me, I’m off to Lackluster Video. I’ll check in with a review in the near future (assuming they actually have it in stock).
UPDATE (4:05PM): And have it in stock they do!
UPDATE (11:03PM): The premise of Elvis and JFK teaming up to battle a mummy in a nursing home sounded so bad that it had to be good. Having now watched Bubba Ho-tep, it turns out that it didn’t really transcend beyond so-bad-it’s-bad status. I’m sorry, Bruce; I tried.
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Drat! I was just about to post something about Bubba Ho-tep and you beat me to it!