Would fans even want that? It seems unlikely. If there’s one thing the Coscarelli-produced Phantasm: Ravager proves, it’s “never say never.” It sounds like if the sequel happens at this point, it will either happen without Campbell or without Coscarelli. There were talks that Ron Perlman would take over the role. So they thought about doing it without him. Coscarelli and producer Paul Giamatti loved the script that they had commissioned, but Bruce Campbell did not. The reason that a sequel-titled Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires-didn’t happen years ago does come down to the script, but it’s actually a rare thing for the industry: it was pretty amicable. Sometimes it’s money, sometimes people just hate the script. There are a lot of reasons for a movie not to happen.
Sure, Campbell has teased the idea as recently as this past Comic Con, but I think this will be one of those actually rare cases where everyone involved has the best intentions and everyone still wants to turn out the best possible product, but nothing actually comes of it. Enough time to think that if a sequel was going to happen, it would have happened already. It’s been over ten years since the movie was released. But with the great response from critics and fans of the genre alike, the notion of a sequel quickly became a reality. This is partially due to the fact that one was jokingly teased in the end credits. So much that there’s been talk of a sequel in the years since its release. When everyone is as slow as the mummy, he becomes a legitimate threat.īubba Ho-Tep has become a major cult classic. That’s why he makes a retirement home into his new stomping grounds. In the film, the mummy is targeting the elderly. It’s hard to take them and make them a legitimate threat.īut with Bubba Ho-Tep, Lansdale and Coscarelli solved the problem. They lumber around like zombies, but they don’t have the horde element, so you can always outrun them. The classic mummy features wore out pretty quickly, with most of them having the same problem: mummies are too slow. Yes, 1999’s The Mummy was incredibly successful and launched a franchise, but it did so by turning the story into a large-scale action epic. It also did quite a bit to reinvigorate the mummy movie, which it doesn’t get enough credit for. As fun, campy and intentionally stupid as it can be, none of that takes away from what a smart and heartfelt picture it actually is. This is a movie about aging, about mortality, and about being old in a society built for the young. CLICK HERE For 100s of FREE Trashy Horror Movies!īubba Ho-Tep is a film that works not just because of the goofy premise of Elvis in a retirement home fighting a mummy, it works because it takes that premise and treats it with total sincerity.
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