Review of Bubba Ho-tep (2002) by Shivankar J — 05 Mar 2009

When a minor mummy, or rather the mummified remains of an insignificant relative of an Egyptian Pharaoh, arrives in East Texas circa 2000, getting re-animated in the process, who will stand between him (or it? I'm no Egyptologist; I'm not sure if the man-parts are mummified along with the rest of the body) and his plans of sucking souls out of the lower orifices of men to extend his life-force?

Good ol' Elvis of course! And JFK! For the King is not dead. He has been alive all along in an East Texas nursing home, taking the place of one of his impersonators who dies in the guise of the King himself. And JFK is an old black man who claims that they (the super secret group that features in every conspiracy theory and every third sentence of a mental asylum resident's crazed discourses) staged his assassination, they performed a lobotomy and they replaced an unspecified part of his brain with sand.

The heroic duo battle the marauding mummy in b-movie perfection, leaving you the happiest you have ever felt in your life that you wish you could command your slaves to embalm you at that moment of joy for all of eternity.

Also starring Bruce Campbell.