Bubba Ho-Tep
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Bubba Ho-Tep |
| Original title | Bubba Ho-Tep |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Don Coscarelli |
| script | Don Coscarelli |
| production |
Jason R. Savage , Don Coscarelli |
| music | Brian Tyler |
| camera | Adam Janeiro |
| cut |
Donald Milne , Scott J. Gill |
| occupation | |
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Bubba Ho-Tep is an American horror - comedy of Don Coscarelli , based on the eponymous short story by Joe R. Lansdale . The film is largely considered a trash film , although it contains only a few typical elements of this genre .
action
Two men who claim to be Elvis Presley and John F. Kennedy lead a sad and unimportant life in a Texas retirement home in 2002. After several mysterious deaths, the two investigate and discover an ancient Egyptian mummy that feeds on the weakened souls of the ancient inhabitants. Together, Elvis and John draw courage and, as a desperate attempt to make sense of their demise, decide to fight the mummy.
After a long hunt, there is a showdown in the park of the old people's home in which they defeat the mummy and then die of their own injuries. However, by their last good deed, they set the souls of the elderly free and save their own.
backgrounds
- The film cost a total of $ 1 million and grossed $ 1.2 million worldwide.
- Bruce Campbell was 44 years old when the film was released, but played 65-year-old Elvis Presley in the film , so he had to be made up about 21 years older with make-up .
- In the credits the ancient Egyptian high priest Imhotep is given as the actor Bubba Ho-Teps .
- The film was shot in an unused building at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Downey , California .
- A sequel called Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires has been in talks since 2009 and was completed in 2013 in script form . A film was not made until 2016.
- Joe R. Lansdale will publish the sequel to his short story "Bubba-Ho-Tep" on October 31, 2017 via Subterranean Press , under the title "Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers".
Awards
The film won a Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay , while lead actor Bruce Campbell and screenwriter Don Coscarelli also received the Jury Prize of the US Comedy Arts Festival .
Reviews
“Abstrusively original horror comedy, which unwinds the mind-boggling plot completely covered. Leading actor Bruce Campbell, a veteran of hard core horror ("Dance of the Devils"), is the only one to convince among the actors. "
Web links
- Bubba Ho-Tep in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bubba Ho-Tep in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ^ Bubba Ho-Tep Set Burns in Suspicious Fire
- ↑ Christina Radish: Paul Giamatti Talks JOHN DIES AT THE END, the HBO Movie K BLOWS TOP, BUBBA NOSFERATU, and Steve McQueen's TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE . Collider. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
- ↑ Whitney Seiboold: Don Coscarelli on 'Beastmaster' and 'Bubba Nosferatu' . Crave Online. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
- ↑ John Adams: Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers . Subterranean Press. Archived from the original on April 10, 2017. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
- ↑ Bubba Ho-Tep. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 1, 2017 .
