Bob Ivy, Bruce Campbell, Cean Okada

Elvis Presley is still alive, now in his late sixties, but confined to a rest home in Texas. Here, he recounts how he escaped fame with the help of an impersonater--now left to wonder what could have ...( read more  read more... )been, all while trying to battle the soul-sucking mummy, Bubba Ho-tep, who enters the rest home at night and consumes souls.

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R, 1 hr. 32 min.

Directed by: Don Coscarelli

Release Date: September 26, 2003

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DVD Release Date: May 25, 2004

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  • November 1, 2009
    It was a good idea but a shit movie. Ossie Davis is jokes doh!!
  • October 1, 2009
    Hail to the king baby, Campbell IS the king! Love it. RIP Ossie Davis
  • April 14, 2009
    So preposterously creative and fun that it makes Hollywood's sausagelike output seem even staler in contrast. Both the comedy-horror Bruce Campbell fans waited for years and a bittersweet meditation on ageing and facing one's mortality. Works better as the former. If you're in th...( read more)e cult of Bruce Campbell, it's a lot easier to enjoy it. If not, you may not get what all the hubbub is about. It is Bruce's finest work as an actor.
  • January 7, 2009
    Perfect off-beat, campy launch pad for Bruce Campbell's unique comedic genius. If you're a fan of Campbell's other films then this one is a must-see.
  • April 17, 2008
    A movie with this line: "I'll be damned if I let some foreign graffiti-writing soul-sucking sonuvabitch in an oversized cowboy hat and boots take my friends' souls and shit 'em down the visitor's toilet." that is also done well is something worth seeing. Elvis and JFK are really ...( read more)still alive, living together in a rest home and battling a mummy that uses ugly scarabs to attack the elderly and steal their souls. The King and The Pres team up to take on the Bubba Ho-Tep (redneck pharaoh descendant) while also offering some great cinematography and engrossing version of a rest home. Some dialogue is cliche but none of it is smack the screen annoying, and some bits are really memorable, evoking even a hurrah when Elvis stands up to his nurse. Bruce Campbell fans will surely love this, as will B movie lovers, conspiracy theorists, and Elvis movie aficionados. Your average movie goer will get some laughs and fun from it as well.
  • November 17, 2009
    Bubba Ho-Tep is a terrific horror comedy. Based on an excellent and highly original short story, it is one of the best horror comedies ever made -- ranking with, yet very different from, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and Shaun of the Dead. The always brilliant Bruce Campb...( read more)ell portrays an aging Elvis in a performance worthy of an Oscar, if only the Academy considered low budget horror films in giving out its awards. And Ossie Davis as JFK -- what can I say about such a brilliant casting choice and a great actor going out on a high note in his final role. Great movie! Great fun!
  • November 11, 2009
    If you haven't seen this, you should.
  • November 1, 2009
    Elvis and JFK fight a mummy. What a wonderful pitch.

    This Guy Over Here picks this as one of the Best Horror Films of the 2000s
  • October 28, 2009
    Great performances from Bruce Campbell as Elvis and Ossie Davis as JFK in this successful mixture of horror and Humour.
  • October 25, 2009
    A 2/5 just because it starts so good the rest is pure crap, sorry Martin!

Critic Reviews


August 14, 2007
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

This absurdly clever caper is elevated by Bruce Campbell's pensive Elvis into a moving meditation on the diminutions of age and the vagaries of fame. full review

December 4, 2003
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

Bubba Ho-Tep takes care of business, baby. full review

October 17, 2003
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

It has the damnedest ingratiating way of making us sit there and grin at its harebrained audacity, laugh at its outhouse humor, and be somewhat moved (not deeply, but somewhat) at the poignancy of the... full review

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  • mrbeanbob
    September 21, 2008
    HAHAHAHA some1 has put worse movie ever, and his fav movie is hairspray and high school musical haaaaaaaaaa
  • joshclark1979
    August 4, 2007
    I loved this movie, one of Bruce Campbells best! Great story with some very funny parts.
  • maisam
    October 30, 2006
    worst movie i have ever watched...

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