![]() ![]() When mysterious deaths plague a Texas retirement home, it’s up to its most sequined senior citizen to take on a 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummy with a penchant for cowboy boots, bathroom graffiti and sucking the souls from the barely living. Evil Dead) as “Elvis”, the late, great Ossie Davis (Grumpy Old Men, Do The Right Thing) as John “Jack” Kennedy, Ella Joyce (Set It Off, Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot), Heidi Marnhout (Phantasm IV: Oblivion) and Bob Ivy (John Dies At the End, Near Dark). ![]() ![]() Lansdale, Bubba Ho-Tep stars cult icon Bruce Campbell (Army of Darkness, Ash vs. Written and directed by Don Coscarelli and based on the Bram Stoker Award-nominated short story by author Joe R. His story Incident On and Off a Mountain Road was. Lansdale) and the performances of Bruce Campbell (who most viewers will know as Ash from the 'Evil Dead' trilogy) as Elvis and Ossie Davis as JFK. The Shady Rest retirement home is about to get all shook up with a new resident: a broken-down and eccentric old geezer claiming to be the King of Rock’N’Roll himself! On February 7, 2023, Scream Factory will bring BUBBA HOTEP to 4K UHD for the first time as a collector’s edition 4K UHD+Blu-ray release loaded with extras! His novella Bubba Ho-tep was adapted to film by Don Coscarelli, starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. Yes, 'Bubba Ho-Tep' surely is a sui generis creation, but the wacky conceit is completely successful, thanks to Coscarelli's clever and poignant script (based on a short story by Joe R. ![]()
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