Stinker Madness - The Podcast for Bad Movie Lovers
TV & Film:Film Reviews
Elvis and JFK team up to take down a butt-sucking undead SOB in a nursing home. OR Elvis ends up in a horrible nursing home and struggles to find a reason to keep living. Pick one. You can't have both without muddying up the other.
While Bubba Ho-Tep should absolutely be praised for accomplishing what it does on only $500,000, it must also be dissed for its non-budget related flaws. Chiefly its duality but also in its production. If you read the back story on this movie, you'll learn that they had a mismatch with the cameras and the level of knowledge on how to run them. So what should have taken 15 days to shoot took 30. That made a lot of stuff in the screenplay that needed to be in film, end up on the floor and a lot of stretching of what was available (which isn't much). This is one of the lowest on content movies we've ever reviewed.
Sadly, this is exceptional work by Bruce Campbell. He is putting everything he's got in the role and is clearly attached to the part, but the horrendous production (lighting, cinematography, makeup, script and plot) get completely in his way and drag everything he does down. Ozzie Davis is great (of course) but he suffers from the same tragedy. It's a shame that both have to lose their skills to a mountain of problems not related to them.
Frankly, at the end of the day, the film is just ruined by it's lack of focus on what it's trying to do. Halfway through, it loses the themes and look it tried to establish in the first half, and the isn't setup to have the second plot work in anyway and thus becomes a lackluster conclusion to something you can't be attached to.
Some will disagree with us (this is beloved - but likely because people are trying to will it to be good) but this is a straight-up do not from us.
Dolemite - Pass that J over, D
Coronasode #8 - Screw you, Vermont!
The Cat from Outer Space - I'm Allergic
Coronasode #7 - The Happy Wiener Show
The Final Sanction - We've gone full pubes
Coronasode #6 - Sharlie loves me
TNT Jackson - Miss Jackson if you're nasty
Coronasode #5 - Ghost Huntin'
The Wizard - Tommy/Rain Man/Pee Wee/Easy Rider
Coronasode #4 - 47 Meters in the Negative; Uncaged
Rage to Kill - Never mess with doctoral candidates
Coronasode #3 - It's your birthday! Great job!
Truck Turner - Hopper Poppin'
Coronasode #2 - Redemption?
Ghoulies IV - Dante was full of crap, man
Episode 415 - Coronasode #1 - The Watchmen fail
Firecracker - How does a naked lady get home?
Year 6 in Review: Part 2
Year 6 in Review: Part 1
Ice Cream Man - Don't stop him when he's passing by
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