The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.: The Complete Series

• Condition: New
• Format: DVD
• Box set; Color; Dolby; DVD; NTSC

Mud Creek, Texas, is about to get all shook up. When mysterious deaths plague the Shady Rest retirement home, it's up to an aging, cantankerous "Elvis" (Bruce Campbell) and a decrepitand black"JFK" (Ossie Davis) to defeat a 3,000-year-old-Egyptian mummy with a penchant for sucking human souls! Can the King show the world that he can still take care of business?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 SaltzmanBUBBA HO TEP HAIL TO THE KING EDITION - DVD MovieBased on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by cult author Joe R. Lansdale, Bub! ba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of ! Elvis Pr esley. We find Elvis (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death", then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds.SOMETHING EVIL IS STIRRING IN THE SMALL MINING TOWN OF GOLD LICK, & IT'S NOT HAPPY. GUAN-DI, THE CHINESE PROTECTOR OF THE DEAD WITH A STRANGE AFFINITY FOR BEAN CURD, HAS BEEN AWAKENED BY RECKLESS TEENAGERS & NOW HIS BLOODY CRUSADE TO WIPE OUT THETOWN'S ENTIRE POPULATION CAN ONLY BE STOPPED BY ONE MAN.Harvard Law School graduate Brisco County Jr. searches for the Bly gang who killed his father, accompanied by fellow bounty hunter Lord Bowler and Comet, a highly intelligent horse.
Genre: We! sterns
Rating: NR
Release Date: 18-JUL-2006
Media Type: DVD

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