Bubba Hotep (2002)

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Bubba Ho-tep gained cult status almost overnight. Starring Bruce Campbell of "Evil Dead" fame playing an elderly not really dead Elvis, it really had no choice but to become a cult fan favorite.

"Bubba" starts in an old folk's home. An Elvis impersonator with an odd growth on his dick is miserable. Not only because of the lump on his "little buddy", but because no one believes he's really Elvis.

A young girl Callie (Heidi Marnhout) comes to collect her dead father's belongings. And gives the film it's much needed babe factor. If she wasn't there we'd only have two old men and an ancient mummy to stare at for the next hour and a half. Not that the storyline isn't great, but, in the great tradition of any horror film, we need a little T and A.

We meet Elvis' best friend a few rooms down, JFK played by Ossie Davis. Turns out this rest home has some real historical oddities under its roof. According to Mr. President after his nearly missed assassination his brain was put into the body of an African American man and placed in protective custody. Now with his administration long gone no one remembers where Mr. Kennedy is, hence his current incarceration ...

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