Scott W. Davis
06-20-2003, 03:47 AM
I swear to God, I never thought this was going to happen. But according to the good folks at , BUBBA HO-TEP will finally be seeing the light of day.
For those living under a rock, BUBBA HO-TEP features an elderly Elvis Presley (Bruce Campell!!!) teaming up with a man claiming to be JFK (Ossie Davis!!!) in order to stop an Egyptian mummy stealing the souls of their friends in the nursing home where they spend their twilight years. Reportedly, in the midst of this is a message about the shabby way we treat our seniors. It's based on a story by Joe R. Landsdale? What did you expect, THE GOONIES?
Until now, you had to catch the festival or convention circuit in order to see Don Coscarelli's (PHANTASM I-IV, THE BEASTMASTER) sure to be cult classic film. If you did, you saw what everyone in their mother has been saying is a true cinematic experience.
Now folks in the U.S. get to see the real deal.
Vitagraph Films, who released Takashi Miike's AUDITION in the west, will be handling distribution. It will show at the Angelika Theatre in New York City on Sept. 26, followed by a run at Los Angeles' NuArt Theatre (Hate to sound ignorant, but is it playing at American Cinemateque's Egyptian. It did have a showing there once, if I recall).
A DVD release, possibly on the Chimera label but nothing's set in stone yet, is expected to follow a potential national release of BUBBA HO-TEP. This has been languishing on shelves forever and everyone who has seen it has screamed, "Why?!?" Now, the wait is over.
It's a good day for subversive cinema.
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For those living under a rock, BUBBA HO-TEP features an elderly Elvis Presley (Bruce Campell!!!) teaming up with a man claiming to be JFK (Ossie Davis!!!) in order to stop an Egyptian mummy stealing the souls of their friends in the nursing home where they spend their twilight years. Reportedly, in the midst of this is a message about the shabby way we treat our seniors. It's based on a story by Joe R. Landsdale? What did you expect, THE GOONIES?
Until now, you had to catch the festival or convention circuit in order to see Don Coscarelli's (PHANTASM I-IV, THE BEASTMASTER) sure to be cult classic film. If you did, you saw what everyone in their mother has been saying is a true cinematic experience.
Now folks in the U.S. get to see the real deal.
Vitagraph Films, who released Takashi Miike's AUDITION in the west, will be handling distribution. It will show at the Angelika Theatre in New York City on Sept. 26, followed by a run at Los Angeles' NuArt Theatre (Hate to sound ignorant, but is it playing at American Cinemateque's Egyptian. It did have a showing there once, if I recall).
A DVD release, possibly on the Chimera label but nothing's set in stone yet, is expected to follow a potential national release of BUBBA HO-TEP. This has been languishing on shelves forever and everyone who has seen it has screamed, "Why?!?" Now, the wait is over.
It's a good day for subversive cinema.
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