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Scream Factory Details Bubba Ho-Tep Blu-Ray
While writer/director Don Coscarelli is obviously best known to horror fans as the man behind the Phantasm franchise, it’s far from the only great thing he’s contributed to the genre. Case in point is 2002’s Bubba Ho-Tep, a film which somehow manages to pull off a balancing act between hilarious horror comedy farce and touching personal drama about the very real terror of getting old.
A certified cult classic, Bubba Ho-Tep stars Bruce Campbell as a still very much alive Elvis Presley, now whiling away his golden years in a Texas nursing home. Back in the 70s, The King grew tired of his life in the spotlight, and switched places with an Elvis impersonator. Unfortunately, that man died, leaving the real Elvis forever trapped in his new identity. Elvis’ only friend at the home is Jack (Ossie Davis), a black man who claims that is in fact president John F. Kennedy. According to Jack, the government dyed him black, and abandoned him at the facility.
These two aging icons soon find their boring nursing home lives turned upside down by the arrival of the titular creature, a recently reanimated ancient Egyptian mummy who dresses up like a cowboy for some reason, and then proceeds to feast on the souls of the other elderly residents. Elvis and Jack are left with no choice but to fight for their lives against an entity even older than they are.
For those who’ve never had the pleasure of watching Bubba-Ho Tep, there will never be a better time to rectify that mistake than when Scream Factory releases their Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray of the film on November 8th. The first ever HD disc release for Bubba Ho-Tep, Scream’s Blu-Ray is absolutely packed with extras, combining five hours of brand new bonus material with the already fairly robust slate of extras present on the old MGM DVD. A full rundown of the contents is included below. With releases like these, Scream Factory continues to cement its status as an HD-loving horror fan’s best friend.
- NEW Audio Commentary with author Joe R. Lansdale
- NEW “All Is Well” – an interview with writer/director Don Coscarelli
- NEW “The King Lives!” – an interview with star Bruce Campbell
- NEW “Mummies and Make-up” – an interview with special effects artist Robert Kurtzman
- Audio Commentary by Don Coscarelli and Bruce Campbell
- Audio Commentary by “The King”
- Deleted Scenes with optional commentary by Don Coscarelli and Bruce Campbell
- “The Making of Bubba Ho-Tep” featurette
- “To Make a Mummy” – Makeup and Effects
- “Fit for A King” – Elvis Costuming
- “Rock Like an Egyptian” – Featurette about the Music of Bubba Ho-Tep
- Joe R. Lansdale Reads from Bubba Ho-Tep
- Archival Bruce Campbell interviews
- Music Video
- Theatrical Trailer
- TV Spot
- Still Gallery
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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