(2002)
written and directed by Don Coscarelli
reviewed by Adam Armstrong
3.7.2009
Hail to the king!
Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) is still alive but has been
moved into a retirement home and forgotten about. Elvis has given up and is
just counting the days as they go by. One night a huge bug gets in his room and
using his karate (and his bed pan) he fights it off. His next door neighbor,
John F. Kennedy (Ossie Davis) who had his brain replaced
with sand and was dyed to look like a black man, finds some Egyptian toilet
stall trash talk on the bathroom wall. From this the two discover that there is
an ancient Egyptian mummy, dressed like a cowboy, sucking the souls out of the
old folks buttholes. With no
one left to believe in them the duo has to believe in each other to defeat the
mummy before they become left over poo circling the
toilet in an old folks home.
This is just excellent. Bruce
Campbell still reigns supreme as the king of all B movies. Seemingly ridiculous
in its plot, this movie really does bring up a few interesting things that we
don’t want to think about. Things such as how we take our elderly and ship them
off to die when they become a burden. Or how this society really reveres the
famous while not seeing how fame can become a prison. Don’t worry all this
seriousness is sewn well under laughs and a creepy looking hillbilly mummy.
Love it and would watch it
again and again.
5 out of 5