Obviously you've seen hundreds of movies in which a fame weary Elvis Presley didn't die and in fact switched places at the peak of his stardom with an impersonator, the real King of Rock and Roll instead winding up in a convalescence home with a cancerous lump on his penis alongside an African American John F. Kennedy, skin dyed by the C.I.A. and with portions of his brain replaced by sand, teaming up to fight the mummified remains of an Egyptian Pharaoh but BUBBA HO-TEP is the best and least typical one. PHANTASM director Don Coscarelli puts down the psychic metal death orbs for a moment to deliver an adaptation of Joe R. Lansdale's novella which turns out to be a surprisingly thoughtful meditation on aging and fading sexuality, lamenting the lack of dignity afforded to those in declining health and reminding us that being old does not make you worthless as well as giving us some good gags, some very silly special effects and that deliciously preposterous plot. All that and featuring the always beloved Bruce Campbell and, improbably, civil rights activist Ossie Davis.
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