The atmoshpere created throughout is a perfect blend of dark moody humour, I love this film like I would love my first born flipper child!! BRILL. 'thnkUveryMuch!!'
before i saw the film plot online all i knew is it was going to star bruce campbell so of course my thought was "im in..." then you read about it.... a 70 year old elvis....a black 70 year old JFK...fight a mummie in a rest home....its screams....genius...and ya know what.... it is!
SEE THIS!!! Natasha, anyone else, see this, see this, see this!!! Elvis didn't go out on a toilet seat. The King of Rock and Roll had a different destiny...
I know, I know... The premise is corny and the performances were completely over the top. The movie snob in me wanted to hate this film, I mean I really wanted to lay into this one and expose it for the cinematic crap that I thought it was going to be. 'Truth is, being completely honest here, I kinda' liked it.
Cult movie idol Bruce "Evil Dead" Campbell is an aging Elvis Presley who is confined to a nursing home where the residents are mysteriously being picked off by an evil Egyptian mummy. With some assistance from a black JFK, played by the talented and under-rated Ossie Davis, it's Elvis to the rescue.
This is a screenplay that would have been ideally suited for a shorter rendering, perhaps as a tale in an episodic horror collection like Creepshow. Stretching it into a full-length feature seems a little much, but that does little to detract from it's campy likeability.
Ok ... This movie my #1 movie for a whole lot of reasons ... 1st Bruce Campbell stars and gives the best performance of his career 2nd Its a fantastic B-movie in the year 2003, thats hard to find 3rd It makes you laugh, it makes you cry and it makes you think 4th It shouldnt ! It could have been the cheesiest movie ever made . Last but not least, how can you not love Ossie Davis as a black JFK or insults like "suck the dog dick of Anubis you ass wipe" coming from a mummy ? Just a funny, "scary", touching and brilliant piece of art ! The jewel of filmaking ..! Oh and it has The King ...
Pretty bizarre... very bizarrre. It's difficult to describe in that the movie centralizes around Elvis impersonating his own impersonator, and finding a new zest for life when he teams up with Jack Kennedy to destroy a mummy that feasts off souls through someone's butthole. It's Bruce Campbell though so if you're a fan, this is right up your alley as you know what to expect.
What if Elvis Presley never died but instead traded lives with an impersonator ? Stuck in a rest home where no-one believes his true identity, an elderly Elvis (Bruce Campbell) lays, contemplating his regrets in regards to his old lifestyle, family and what the hell the weird growth is on the end of his pecker that requires a nurse lubing it!!! When scarab beetles start attacking residents, zimmer-frame wielding Elvis and his friend, a black J.F.Kennedy (according to him he never died, they 'dyed' him black to conceal him from enemies!) they must team up and stop an even greater threat - a soul-sucking Egyptian mummy roaming the retirement home at night! Only the legend that is Bruce Campbell could get away with a random film like this. It's still great fun to watch and has some great lines in it delivered by the man himself, You gotta be intrigued by the concept - where else you going to find an elderly King of Rock 'n' Roll battle the King of the Dead?
it's got elvis, a black jfk, and an egyptian mummy that dresses like a cowboy...if that sounds interesting to you, you'll likely love this film. i sure as golly did.
Elvis is alive, he's 68 and living in a nursing home, years before he switched places with an Elvis impersonator. He discovers that a mummy was sucking the souls out of the residents of the nursing home through their assholes, so he and a black man claming to be JFK set up to stop the mummy.This sounds silly but the movie really achieves deep depths. Bruce Campbell as Elvis let me in a "aw".
Bruce Campbell gives an award worthy perfrmance (and Ossie Davis gives equally solid support) in this delightfully dour flick. Surrounded by decay and neglect, Elvis struggles with the infinitely more terrifying notion of aging unknown and uncared for, while also combating an angry soul sucking mummy. Genius.
The strangest movie of 2003. Somehow, Elvis Presley switched paces with an impersonator, (doesn't matter that there weren't many before he died), and is in a rest home, where he discovers the curse of an undead nummy has been put upon the home. Not a bad movie. Not a great movie. Fairly entertaining. Look real close and see the gaffs, but don't look too close, or it defies all logic.
hey! it's bruce "don't call me ash" campbell again! now this is a weird one. he plays an aging elvis in a retirement home. he must team up with an african-american fellow who thinks he's "jfk". together, they must stop a mummy loose in their retirement home. sound strange? sure, but it does not disappoint in the least
This is quite a funny movie with a really good premise, certainly Coscarelli's best since the original "Phantasm". I ended up imagining many more things about it than actually happens, and I felt a bit disappointed about the development of the premise. I might grow to like it more and more though.
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 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.
I was pleasantly surprised by this film. While the premise of a mummy sucking the life out of nursing home residents might be far fetched, the whole back story on how Elvis (Bruce Campbell) came to be living at the nursing home is actually semi-plausible, and is probably more likely than any of the other theories that have been brought up over the years. It's a difficult movie to classify. Some would call it horror, others might call it dark comedy, others might say it's a drama. In any case, it's a great flick for a Saturday night.
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