Bubba Ho-Tep, Bruce Campbell Horror Comedy - Best Horror Movie You Never Saw
March 1, 2021 by:
Best Horror You Never Saw video series, we take a look at the 2002 horror-comedy
Phantasm), and starring Bruce Campbell (
The Evil Dead series) and Ossie Davis (
Do the Right Thing)!
The film itself is a surprisingly somber and introspective reflection on aging and obsolescence,
as well as simultaneously being a hilarious and irreverent horror-comedy about an aging Elvis fighting off a cowboy mummy who eats old people s souls from their assholes! This film really has it all!
Here s the official synopsis:
Elvis Presley and a black JFK stay in a nursing home where nothing happens - until a wayward Egyptian mummy comes and sucks out the old people s souls thru their a-holes. The two decide to fight back.
The Phantasm Makes Their Full Batman Catwoman Debut
In
Batman/Catwoman #1, writer Tom King brought a beloved character from the animated universe onto the pages of comics by bringing back Andrea Beaumont/Phantasm with the story centering around the Joker killing Andrea s son, a trauma that prompts Andrea to suit up again as Phantasm to finish what she started years ago by ending the Joker once and for all. While the first issue teases Andrea s return as the vengeful killer, it s this week s Batman/Catwoman #2 that truly sees the Phantasm return in all its terrifying glory.
Warning: spoilers for
Batman/Catwoman #2 below.
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books. do people have a realistic expectation? are they looking for morocco or this phantasm? it is a phantasm. it is. when you get here, you know morocco, you feel that you are in morocco but you are not. there s a lot of mediterranean attached to this town. also the history, people hear story about tangier that it was when i first came in the 60s, everybody said that you came late. right. now i m saying the same thing as the young now. they come and they saw wow, i say what was better about those days? well, for me at that time i was young, and it was the boom of hippies, and it was a destination. you know, cafe baba, meet bob dylan, and the parties was going on. i miss these kind of parties. people fly from everywhere to the party, and they make the