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This is my boomstick!

A much-needed dose of Bruce Campbell is coming soon to Kendall Square Cinema: Bubba Ho-tep. Director/ co-writer Don Coscarelli sums it up thusly:

[…] Bubba Ho-tep, based on the short story by acclaimed cult-author Joe R. Lansdale. Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of a seventy year-old "Elvis" (still alive after trading places with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death") who finds himself stuck in a rest home in East Texas. Elvis teams up with another elderly resident, played by the legendary Ossie Davis (who believes himself to be President John F. Kennedy, dyed black!), to challenge a soul-sucking Egyptian mummy which has targeted their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds. […]"

(I loved the closing sentence of his essay: "If you plan on seeing one Elvis vs. Mummy movie this year I hope that Bubba Ho-tep is it."). Tangentially related: I just read on bruce-campbell.com that Bruce is working on a new book— Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way.

Posted by rv at October 16, 2003 08:22 AM to movie