So said (words to that effect) Simon Mor­ris on his Nation­al Radio movie pro­gramme about Bub­ba Ho-Tep.

I haven’t seen it yet, but I’ve read & heard quite a bit about it since its release in 2002. And now it’s com­ing soon, to the Para­mount & Light­house The­atres. Hey... baby!

I’ve sug­gest­ed to my wife on sev­er­al occa­sions that we real­ly must see this when it gets here. She always says “What’s it about again?” and I reply:

“An aging Elvis Pres­ley & John F Kennedy bat­tle an Egypt­ian mum­my in the old peo­ple’s home they live in.” Around about here she inter­jects:

“No f*cking WAY!”

But no kid­ding, this movie has not had a sin­gle bad review. That I have seen any­way.

Bruce (the Evil Dead) Camp­bell appar­ent­ly lays down the defin­i­tive Elvis por­tray­al on film. It goes like this: years ago, look­ing for some anony­mous R&R;, he trad­ed places with an Elvis imper­son­ator for a spell. It’s the imper­son­ator who deep fried peanut but­ter sand­wich­es, got fat & died in the Grace­land can, doom­ing the real Elvis to the rest of his lfe in obscu­ri­ty. Mean­while, by chance, the very much alive JFK (Ossie Davis) has had his appear­ance changed by the CIA (he’s now black…) & is liv­ing in the very same retire­ment home as Pres­ley.

And then there’s the Egypt­ian mum­my… wear­ing a cow­boy hat.…

How could they go wrong with a plot like that?

So for­get for a while, the dark & dis­mal goings on in a galaxy far, far away (keep an eye on that dodgy Sen­a­tor guy & the Dark Lord of the Sith played by the same actor…I reck­on there could be a con­nec­tion there).

And go check out Bub­ba Ho-Tep when it gets here. The wife & I will be in the front row, open­ing night.