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• Condition: New
• Format: DVD
• Box set; Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; DVD; Subtitled; NTSC

Elvis and President Kennedy find each other in a Texas nursing home and do battle with a mummy feeding off the residents.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 7-SEP-2004
Media Type: DVDBUBBA HO TEP HAIL TO THE KING EDITION - DVD MovieSOMETHING EVIL IS STIRRING IN THE SMALL MINING TOWN OF GOLD LICK, & IT'S NOT HAPPY. GUAN-DI, THE CHINESE PROTECTOR OF THE DEAD WITH A STRANGE AFFINITY FOR BEAN CURD, HAS BEEN AWAKENED BY RECKLESS TEENAGERS & NOW HIS BLOODY CRUSADE TO WIPE OUT THETOWN'S ENTIRE POPULATION CAN ONLY BE STOPPED BY ONE MAN.The companion book to the popular moving starring Bruce Campbell as Elvis and Ossie Davis as JFK, stuck in an East Texas old folks home, faces off against a redneck mummy. Includes the original novella that th! e film was based on, the shooting script, an introduction by author Joe R. Lansdale and director Don Coscarelli. Also includes several stills from the film.Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by cult author Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death", then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds.The world's favorite western/sci-fi/comedy/action cult hit rides again! Here on 8 discs is the complete series about Brisco (Bruce Campbell), a tough-as-rawhide cowpoke, debonair ladies' ma! n and Harvard-educated smarty-britches who roams from Frisco t! o Jalisc o in pursuit of outlaws who killed his father...and in search of a mysterious orb possessing out-of-this world powers. Hot lead and cool anachronisms await Brisco as he and his sidekicks - including Comet, the intellectual equine who doesn't know he's a horse - fight for justice in the way, way, way-out West. Put your boots in your stirrups, your tongue in your cheek and join the fun. Let's play cowboys and aliens.