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Bruce Campbell and Don Coscarelli celebrate 21 years of Bubba Ho-TepIt is an independent film to the core, as the two affirm, proud of the results that the project has managed to achieve.
On social media platform X, Bubba Ho-Tep Director Don Coscarelli has shared the poster for the cult film. The poster features Campbell as Elvis Presley, who is now living in a nursing home after faking his death decades earlier. Behind him is the silhouette of the ancient mummy who has been resurrected, leaving Elvis and JFK (Ossie Davis) to stop him. With such an outlandish concept, the film is not the kind of project that would normally be made by a major studio, leaving the Bubba Ho-Tep not only to make the film, but also to manage its distribution.
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“21 years ago this week, we liberated ourselves Bubba Hot-tep into the world with a bunch of film and a dream,” Coscarelli noted. “As Bruce always said, Bubba wasn’t just released, he ESCAPED!”
As Bruce always said, Bubba wasn't just let loose: he ESCAPED!
Campbell responded to the post by sharing a screenshot of himself as Elvis alongside Ossie Davis as JFK. The B-movie legend said, “There's a lot of talk about 'Indie' this and 'Indie' that. Don not only financed Bubba himself, he self-distributed it. THAT'S an 'Indie.'”
Bubba Ho-Tep is directly based on the original book of the same name by Joe R. Lansdale. Coscarelli produced the film with Jason R. Savage. Along with Campbell and Davis, the film starred Ella Joyce, Daniel Roebuck, Reggie Bannister, Larrey Pennll, Heidi Marnhout and Bob Ivy.
Why Bubba Ho-Tep found its way with fans, at one point there were tentative plans to develop a sequel. The planned project would falter in development hell, eventually disappearing.
Bubba Ho-Tep is currently streaming on Prime Video and is also free, with ads, on Tubi and Pluto TV.
Source: X