Bubba Ho-tep tells the story of Elvis Presley and JFK, who are living in a nursing home and believe themselves to still be alive despite reports of their deaths. They team up to fight an ancient Egyptian mummy who is sucking out residents' souls. The film blurs genres as a horror-comedy Western that questions what is reality based on media reports. It challenges conventions by combining genres and questioning if characters are truly who they claim to be.

1. Bubba Ho-tepBy Alex and Ryan

2. Name of film and back ground informationBubba-Ho-tepDirected by Don Coscarelli Produced by Don CoscarelliJason R. SavageRonnie TrussMark Wooding Starring Bruce CampbellOssie DavisElla JoyceBob IvyHeidi MarnhoutMusic by Brian Tyler

3. Cinematography Adam Janeiro Editing by Scott J. GillDonald Milne Distributed by MGM Release date(s) June 9, 2002Running time 92 minutesCountry United StatesLanguage EnglishBudget $1,000,000

4. Micro-narratives, not meta-narrativesThe micro-narratives consist ofIf JFK was not killed, but instead taken by the government and dyed white and had half his brain removed and replaced with sand, and placed in a retirement home. Obviously everyone thinks he’s crazyElvis if he was still alive and it was an impersonator that took his place in life instead and he died of a heart attack, not the real Elvis. He is also in the retirement home because he has no living family. He has a growth on his genitals possibly cancer. No one believes he is Elvis.A ancient mummy that has fallen out of a van delivering it to a museum and come back to life and sucks the souls out of a human being out of their behind and terrorises the retirement home that Elvis and JFK are in.JFK and Elvis try to fight the mommy

5. Distinction between media reality and reality has collapsed (simularcrum/ Hyperreality) We blindly follow the media in all it says and does. We accept that Elvis is dead because the news papers told us so, even though there was a lot of mysteries surrounding his death, such as his middle name was spelt wrong on his grave, the coffin weighted more than it should have done suggesting their was a cooler system in the coffin for a wax dummy and all the paper work to say if it was a human body or a wax dummy went missing. Also there is so much mystery over JFK’s assassination that maybe this is why to huge death media icons were chosen. Especially with Elvis his whole career and famous life was because of the media.

6. Postmodern media is transparent/ and artifice The story is obviously fake because Elvis’s death was so publicised, but by the most minute chance could he still be alive.But never in this context because it is so unlikely and well scientifically proven that mummies can’t come back to lifeIt’s almost playing on the fact that the media is stupid because we all know this would never happen and even though the great media coverage of their deaths the film creators are kind of saying ‘well yeah but what if he was alive’

7. Ossie Davis (plays JFK) was a black right socialists friends with Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. This is quite ironic because of the fact the media would have helped to promote the lack of rights for black people and possibly bring about more rights for them because other societies

8. Challenges conventions blurs boundaries/ intertextualityWesternMummies - horror, thrillerFamous people’s livesHeart string pullerComedySo basically can you imagine all these things in one film?

9. Challenges traditional text / reader relationshipsIt questions whether the characters themselves are really who they say they are, because Elvis tells the story of how he was switched for an impersonator, but do we believe him, maybe he was always just the impersonator. Also JFK at one point comes in and says the girl who calls herself my Niece so maybe he has family, but maybe she’s someone the government paid to tell him she was her niece. It questions the basic text of even the characters on screen may not be who they say they are.You have to try believe the characters for the story to have it’s real affect and by the end of the film you kind of do and feel sorry for the characters and the struggle their going through though at the beginning the pure idea of the story plot seems ridiculous.