# Bubba Ho-tep (2002)

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**Runtime**: 92 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Fantasy
**Directed by**: Don Coscarelli
**Written by**: Joe R. Lansdale, Don Coscarelli
**Starring**: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Ella Joyce, Heidi Marnhout, Bob Ivy, Edith Jefferson

> *The King vs. The King of the Dead.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Seven dust-moted Texas afternoons. The ceiling fan spins like a wounded comet.

An old negro king and a former president flip a coin between them. By midnight a linen-wrapped ghoul hauls itself from the linen closet.

Coscarelli’s 2002 mummy meets Grateful Dead roadie.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult, playful, unhinged

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