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Bruce Campbell IS Elvis

By Chuck Vollers on February 26, 2011

Bruce Campbell IS Elvis. (Quite possibly his best performance.) Ossie Davis IS JFK. (OK, probably not his best but likely his most unexpected.) Don Coscarelli’s direction may not be as idiosyncratic as his Phantasm work but it’s still high quality stuff and his script (based on Joe R. Lansdale’s short story) is first rate too. Not much horror considering the movie is about a soul-sucking mummy and the humor is more character based than one might expect (or want), but hey, in the end the character stuff pays off. It’s even (almost) moving. I know, I know, you’ve heard all about it. But have you heard Elvis say, “What do I care? I got a growth on my pecker.”