That's the premise for the off-beat cult comedy Bubba Ho-Tep, but the background -- how Elvis became a rest-home patient and what his life is like in its waning years -- is where this movie shines ...

Bubba Ho-Tep is a silly good time. It’s an unorthodox take on genre cinema that features a great showing from Bruce Campbell as an aging, undead Elvis. I like the film (and Campbell) so much ...

Bubba Ho-Tep is a silly good time. It’s an unorthodox take on genre cinema that features a great showing from Bruce Campbell as an aging, undead Elvis. I like the film (and Campbell) so much ...

A withered Elvis (Bruce Campbell), wracked with regrets and dying in a rest home.

Elvis (Bruce Campbell) is alive but not exactly well, living in a decrepit east Texas rest home after having changed places with an impersonator years before his supposed death. He and a fellow ...

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Bruce Campbell guesses lines from 'The Evil Dead', 'Bubba Ho-Tep', and 'Spider-Man' and talks his future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.