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Released
2002 · FILM

Bubba Ho-Tep

An aging Elvis Presley, living incognito in a Texas nursing home, must join forces with a resurrected JFK to defeat an ancient Egyptian mummy that threatens to claim the souls of his fellow residents.

“The King vs. The King of the Dead.”

Directed by
Don Coscarelli
Written by
Joe R Lansdale, Don Coscarelli
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
92 min
ComedyFantasyHorror

Synopsis

This fictional account imagines the aftermath of Elvis Presley's life, portraying him as an elderly man living in a rest home in East Texas. Years earlier, he had swapped identities with an Elvis impersonator, only to later miss the opportunity to switch back. In this story, Elvis teams up with a reincarnated version of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy to battle an ancient Egyptian mummy for the souls of the other residents of the facility.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Scott J GillShot by Adam JaneiroScored by Brian TylerDesigned by Danny Vecchione

Box Office

2002 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1.2M

Budget$1.0M
Worldwide gross$1.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • BubbaHo-Tepde
  • Bubba Ho-tep - Il re è quiit

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