RUNNING TIME: 76 minutes.
Bubba Ho-Tep is a comedy film about Elvis Presley spending his old days in a nursing home.
When I first saw the movie, I had a hard time with it because I adore Elvis like a god.
I felt like the movie was making fun of him in some way.
However, after watching it several times, it's now one of my favorites.
There was no Elvis music in the film at all, and I had been thinking about combining it with real Elvis material for years.
This is the idea behind my edit, combining it with music from Elvis and video clips of him.
The story has changed here and there.
In the original, Elvis (well-played by Bruce Campbell) has taken on the identity of an Elvis impersonator to be freed from the show business that was slowly destroying him.
In my version, that is not the case.
He staged his death and subsequently lives on under the name Sebastian Haff. The story continues in 2007, 30 years after his alleged death.
Elvis is old and lame, regrets his plan at the time, and dreams and thinks back a lot about his successful years.
That dreaming and thinking back is alternated with real video clips of Elvis. Bubba's story continues as usual, albeit abbreviated.