This is a great film I just picked up the other day. As a fan of Bruce Campbell & a fan of the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness wackiness, I had heard from many people that I would enjoy this movie. And man, oh man, did I enjoy it.The premise is this: Elvis never died. He instead traded places with a double over twenty years ago. He has cancer on his #### and he is stuck in a nursing home in Texas. His only friend there is John F. Kennedy, who never actually died. When he was shot, he was hidden away and turned into a black man by Lyndon Johnson. An ancient Egyptian mummy starts sucking the souls out of the residents of the nursing home, and Elvis & JFK are forced to fight back.
This is a completely ridiculous, yet utterly amazing film. Black humor is everywhere here as Bruce Campbell plays an old, decrepit Elvis pitch perfect. If anything, I would call this movie a spiritual successor to "Army of Darkness." Yet the monster isn't the biggest aspect of the movie. Rather, there's a surprising strong message about how our society abandons the elderly.
Still though, this is an awesome "monster" movie with tons of great humor and characters. Do yourself a favor and go grab a copy. Just watch this movie. You won't regret a second of it.
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