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Don Coscarelli directs and Bruce Campbell stars as the King of Camp in this intentionally over-the-top schlockfest. Bubba Ho-Tep is partially about Elvis Presley and partially about the title character, an Egyptian cowboy zombie, but mostly it is about camp. The movie is equal parts story and back story. We learn through narration and flashback how Elvis didn't really die, ending up instead in a rest home in East Texas with JFK (played by Ossie Davis), who was dyed black and had his brain removed, presumably for reasons of national security. Campbell and Davis realize that something strange is going on when their rest-home compatriots start dropping off suspiciously. The whole movie leads up to a final showdown to the death with the Egyptian cowboy zombie who has been sucking the souls of their fellow residents because he thought no one would notice. The movie unfolds a bit slowly; it is, after all, a geriatrics-fight-Egyptian-cowboy-zombie movie. However, one wishes this self-conscious movie's pacing took its cue from the atypically fast-moving zombie instead of from the senior-citizen Elvis and JFK. In the end, though, Campbell is flawless as the aged King; his accent, intonations, glasses, and trademark karate are at the same time sincere and over the top. --Brian Saltzman

Release Date: 2004-03-16, Rating: R (Restricted)

Release Date: 1994-12-01, Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)

Surgikil is a high camp, hysterical black/comedy which takes place at Good Community Hospital where patients check in but don't check out. It's weird cast of cartoon-like characters including bimbo nurses, disorderly orderlies, and M.D's (money doctors), a transvestite nurse, and a 15 year old pacifier sucking doctor add to the mayham. Patients and doctors are killed in gruesome and strange ways. Mrs. Gross blows to pieces during surgery, Dr. Fine is butchered alive, and financial adviser Sly Sickem has his head cracked open with a hatchet. Everyone is a suspect The beautiful Dr. Grace Goode , suspecting sabotage, tries to save her family's hospital from bad publicity and bankruptcy but being chased by a sinister doctor impersonator with an ax doesn't help. Anything that can go wrong does. even with the support of her fiancee, Dr. Harvey Harvey. Finally when things can't possibly get any worse, a strange turn of events makes for a surprise ending. This black comedy with it's weird cast of characters in the unmistakable Andy Milligan style is his last film and a final tribute to this many talented filmmaker

Release Date: 1994-12-01, Rating: NR (Not Rated)

Release Date: 2005-11-15, Rating: R (Restricted)

Release Date: 1994-12-01, Rating: NR (Not Rated)

Release Date: 1994-12-01, Rating: NR (Not Rated)

Release Date: 1997-12-01, Rating: NR (Not Rated)

Release Date: 1991-12-01