Joe lansdale bubba ho tep5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Most of Lansdale’s work is sort of neither.įor fans who first encountered him on the big screen there is a lot of catching up to do, but his work is so diverse that coming to it from almost anywhere is misleading. At the root of things Bubba Ho-Tep is both a horror movie and a comedy. Those are all hallmarks of Lansdale’s writing.Īnd yet, I can’t help but feel that Bubba Ho-Tep isn’t the best introduction to Lansdale’s work. The characters are treated with respect and the story has moments of surprising tenderness. ![]() ![]() The depiction of East Texas is vivid, detailed and feels very familiar if you’ve spent any time in the region. It quickly became a cult classic.īubba Ho-Tep is profane, funny, absurd and genuinely scary. It was the type of beautifully strange movie that develops a community of appreciation. Lansdale fans whose first contact with the writer was through the 2002 Bruce Campbell-Ossie Davis movie Bubba Ho-Tep in which a pair of retirees (who may or may not actually be Elvis and JFK) fight a cowboy-hatted mummy from their beds in an East Texas retirement home. I’m guessing here, but I suspect that I am one of many Joe R. ![]()
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