Bubba Ho-tep (2003) - Because You Watched Starcrash

“I think you know what I’m getting at, Mr. President. We’re gonna kill us a mummy.”

In this thrilling installment of Because You Watched Starcrash, your Distinguished Professors wade ass-deep into danger with 2003’s Bubba Ho-tep! Topics discussed include Soul Man, the director’s writing credit on The Beastmaster, this movie’s intense absurdity, parallels with Unforgiven and Logan in fears about losing usefulness in old age, the awesomeness of Joe R. Lansdale, defining words at the beginning like Pulp Fiction, this movie as a mock epic, Bruce Campbell as a cult actor, the role of Kemosabe in getting us to question the literal authenticity of Jack and Elvis, “Haff’s” self-parodying performance as Elvis, referring to Elvis movies without actually showing Elvis movies, our vaccination status, trying to place where we’ve seen the various bit-part players, parallels with Don Quixote and The Rape of the Lock, uses of humor that are effective but not necessarily funny, Elvis’s psychic powers, the plot convenience of Jack, smoking around hazardous materials, a bit of folklore trivia about latrinalia, our producer shares some useful trivia about scarabs, and the burden of thinking with sand.