Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) – Hail to the King, Baby…

Have you heard the one about Elvis & JFK fighting a soul-sucking Egyptian mummy in a retirement home? That’s what you get with Bubba Ho-Tep, an oddball curio with lashings of B-Movie appeal, thanks largely to the presence of cult icon Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead, Maniac Cop)

Adapted from Joe R Lansdale’s novella and directed by Phantasm creator Don Coscarelli, the film takes place in a sleepy, threadbare retirement home in Texas.  Elvis Presley, having switched places with an impersonator in the Seventies to escape the pressures of fame, is now a crabby, regretful old man with a suspicious growth on his pecker.  He lost his contract in a barbecue accident and now nobody believes he is the King.