My friend Kim and I were chatting earlier today and she brought up Bruce Campbell’s movie BUBBA HO-TEP. I had been wanting to see the movie and so I wandered over to Bruce’s website to see if the film had opened anywhere nearby. Lucky me, it had opened in the Bay Area at various locations…
So after my chat with Kim, the hubby and I headed out to the Bay Area and saw BUBBA HO-TEP at the Camera 7 Cinema in Campbell. Yes, we saw a Bruce Campbell movie in Campbell. 😉
A quick synopsis of the film (from the official website):
UNDEAD, UNLIKELY, UNEQUALED…
Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by acclaimed author Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-tep tells the “true” story of what really did become of Elvis. 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…
It’s funny, I bet most of the people there, ourselves included, came to see the movie because of Bruce Campbell. And I think we were richly rewarded. Bruce was BRILLIANT! The performances by Bruce and Ossie Davis were magnificent. It was a bittersweet kind of tale within the horror and suspense. I really liked Bruce’s take on Elvis. Very nice indeed.
I would definitely recommend the film. I enjoyed it a lot…
After the movie, we headed to the Barnes and Noble and I got a few books. I keep buying books and not reading them. Ye gods! I need to read more. Maybe reading more will spur me on to WRITE something. Anything!
We got home before midnight and managed to watch Everybody Loves Raymond, then Las Vegas. I like that show Las Vegas. It’s groovay! 😉
