Don Coscarelli’s weirdly inspired, unclassifiable horror comedy... wraps JFK conspiracies and Elvis sightings around a mummy movie set in a drab Texas retirement home.

| Oct 20, 2023

The most surprising element of this picture isn’t its outrageousness but rather its occasionally wistful, even poignant, approach.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 29, 2023

For as insane as the premise is, this off-kilter horror flick spotlights some great performances and a shockingly insightful story.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 11, 2023

Hilarious, a little scary and strangely poignant. Campbell's cranky, valiant, sad-sack King is a soulfully funny creation.

| Mar 12, 2018

This is a bizarre film that absolutely lives up to its insane premise ... Bruce Campbell turns in one of his most muted performances while playing Elvis Presley - it's a testament to his range.

| Feb 28, 2017

Despite having a fascinating set-up and an excellent turn from Bruce Campbell, Bubba Ho-Tep becomes a missed opportunity due to director/writer Don Coscarelli's inability to take advantage of the bizarre premise.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 7, 2016

A lot less a horror film, and much more of a film about the horrors of getting old.

| Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 27, 2007

A mismatched marriage of offbeat character study and unimaginative horror riffs.

Full Review | Sep 24, 2007

Writer-director Don Coscarelli piles on unpleasant details and cynical asides as if they were the stuff of wisdom, though they seem intended to produce guffaws rather than thoughts

| Sep 24, 2007

This absurdly clever caper is elevated by Bruce Campbell's pensive Elvis into a moving meditation on the diminutions of age and the vagaries of fame.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 14, 2007

Don Coscarelli still doesn't know how to make cookie-cutter genre films. Let's hope he never learns how.

| Original Score: A | Aug 11, 2007

Elvis is in a geriatric care centre with JFK (who's black) and he's got to kick some ancient Mummy ass. What else is there to say?

| Original Score: B | Jun 21, 2007

Not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination, but there's enough here to entertain even those for whom 'cult' is a four-letter word.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

There's plenty of scatological humour and knockabout fun to get one through the slower passages.

| Feb 9, 2006

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 5, 2005

It's outrageous and full of novel ideas that will tickle the fancy of anyone who is stimulated by the absurd.

| Feb 18, 2005

There may be some deeper meaning to all this madness about living beyond your prime and regret, but it just barely escapes me how it all fits in

| Original Score: 2.5 | Dec 27, 2004

A sharply written, surprisingly moving little film with a terrific performance by Bruce Campbell.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2004