An
elderly man (Bruce
Campbell)
at The Shady Rest Retirement Home in East
Texas claims to be the real Elvis
Presley.
He explains that during the 1970s, he grew tired of the demands of
his fame and switched places with an Elvis
impersonator named
Sebastian Haff (also Campbell). He claims it was Haff who eventually
died in 1977, while he, the real Elvis, lived in quiet, happy
anonymity and made a living pretending to be himself. After a propane
explosion destroyed documentation which was the only proof that he
was actually Elvis, he was unable to return to his old life.
A
hip injury during a performance causes him to get an infection and
slip into a coma. Twenty years later and living at the retirement
home as the film opens, he is contemplating his age, frailty, loss of
dignity, impotence, and "A growth on his pecker". Elvis's
only friend is a black man named Jack (Ossie
Davis)
who insists he is JFK,
claiming to have been dyed black after an
assassination attempt,
and abandoned in
a nursing home. Initially skeptical of Jack's story, Elvis does spot
a mysterious scar on the back of Jack's head. It could be from the
head wound seen in the Zapruder
film,
but then it might not be.
Eventually,
Elvis and Jack face off against a re-animated ancient
Egyptian mummy that
was stolen during a U.S. museum tour, the mummy strangely takes on the garb of a cowboy
and feeds on the souls of the residents of the home (I'll let it be a surprise as to how he does this). It is dubbed
'Bubba Ho-Tep' by Elvis.
The slow,
plodding mummy is a real and credible threat, as instead of going
against young adults who could potentially outrun or overpower it,
the mummy gives chase to the elderly. Jack and Elvis lack mobility
and need a motorized
wheelchair and
a walker to get around the grounds.
I don't want to give away the rest of the film you should watch it and then thank me later for introducing you to this wonderful slice of weird.
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