The new installment of Horror Frames, address book, I write for MyMovies, deals with a maverick filmmaker, to say the Americans as an outsider, we would say we always borrow a term U.S.: Don Coscarelli . It is dealing with it through perhaps his best film, certainly the best in the last three decades ( Ghosts is 70s). I refer of course to Bubba Ho-tep where the real Elvis Presley (a fantastic Bruce Campbell), aged and survived oblivion, gets along with JF Kennedy - Black played by Ossie Davis (large) - to fight an evil Egyptian mummy.
The film is 2002, but we arrived on DVD - with considerable timing - this year alone it is lawful to speak now, but would still be permissible to talk about it at any time, since it is a very brilliant film. Who wants to know more - that is what I wrote - can go here.
On the sidelines, I note only that Ossie Davis - great actor and director also of considerable interest - has also worked on civil rights in tough times. Under this position, he was able - as he himself pointed out - to present Bob Dylan twice to tens of years away, first in the famous march on Washington with Martin Luther King and then, recently, the celebration at the Apollo Theatre where Dylan he performed in a heartbreaking version of the classic Sam Cooke A Change Is Gonna Come .
After a long and rich life of significant results, Ossie Davis died in 2005.
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