![]() ![]() ![]() So, The King is spending his twilight years in an East Texas nursing home, suffering from what appears to be penile cancer. They had a 'trade back' clause, of course, but once the impersonator died, and Elvis accidentally burned up his copy of the contract, well, no one is going to believe him. It seems the real Elvis didn't die back in the 1970s – instead, Elvis, fed up with the fame and the money, swapped lives with an Elvis impersonator. B-movie legend Bruce Campbell tackles the role of The King. Any film that features Elvis and a black (and still alive) JFK battling an undead Egyptian mummy in East Texas is just too good to pass up. ![]() Don Coscarelli (the man behind the Phantasm films) has brought one of Lansdale's wildest and weirdest stories to the land of cinema with the recent release of Bubba Ho-Tep. Several things (most notably his hilarious Hap and Leonard books – Mucho Mojo et al.) scream for adaptation to the big screen, but nothing has made the transition – until now. With such an impressive (and large) body of work (which includes comics, horror, mystery, etc.), I'm continually amazed we haven't seen a bunch of films based on Lansdale's work. ![]()
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