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

| Mar 12, 2018

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

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

A fiendishly funny comedy horror.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 6, 2004

Fry up a peanut butter and 'nana sandwich, hop in your Cadillac and take one last ride with the King.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 8, 2004

Neither particularly funny nor scary, but tiresome.

| Jan 9, 2004

In the end, what keeps it going is not the story but the delicious relationship between Elvis and JFK.

Full Review | Jan 9, 2004

Often hilarious low-budget romp.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Nov 26, 2003

Bubba Ho-Tep succeeds as goofy-yet- tender wish fulfillment, offering an Elvis who tries to redeem his self-indulgent persona and become a hero. It fails as the sort of Campbell vehicle that wears out VCRs and haunts midnight-movie houses.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 21, 2003

Bubba Ho-tep may sound bizarre, but it's a lot of fun.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 30, 2003

Bubba Ho-Tep is lovely. It's as sweet and endearing as a jelly doughnut. If a jelly doughnut were funny, it would be as funny as a jelly doughnut, a particularly droll one.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 27, 2003

Coscarelli, who brought us four volumes of Phantasm, is a surefooted B-movie journeyman, and for Bubba Ho-Tep he's in a generously lunatic mood.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 17, 2003

Campbell gives another notable acrobatic performance, which is saying something for an actor who has spent the best part of his career getting knocked around by ghosts and ghouls.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 17, 2003

It has the damnedest ingratiating way of making us sit there and grin at its harebrained audacity, laugh at its outhouse humor, and be somewhat moved (not deeply, but somewhat) at the poignancy of these two old men and their situation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 17, 2003

Coscarelli ... can't quite conjure a complete movie out the concept and stretches the material until its humorous conceits repeat ad nauseum.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 16, 2003

Surprisingly good as a quirky triumph of human spirit.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 10, 2003

A low-budget comedy chiller that makes up in dog-eared charm what it lacks in fright.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 9, 2003