Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)

The "true" story of what really became of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home. He switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death", then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds as hilarity ensues.

Trivia: Despite the fact that Elvis Presley is the main character, not one piece of Elvis's music is heard. Director Don Coscarelli explained that it would have cost about half the budget to license one of Elvis's songs for the movie. The shoestring budget for this movie was a little over a half million dollars, or roughly 1% of an average big-budget Hollywood movie. When Elvis turns on the TV and sees the Elvis Presley movie marathon, none of the clips are from any of Elvis's movies. Because the licensing costs would have been too much for the budget, they used stock footage and never showed the faces of the Elvis-like actors. Only 32 prints of the film were originally made as part of a limited platform release. The Soul of Southern Film Festival, in Memphis, Tennessee, paid for a thirty-third print, so that they wouldn't have to wait any longer to show the film. Several other festivals and theaters paid advances in order to secure prints.

This is what I like about movies, you can come up with a plot, Elvis Presley didn't actually die, but is living in a rest home with his black friend who thinks he is JFK and they end up battling an Egyptian mummy who is stealing the souls of the rest home to feed his spirit since they don't fight back and everyone expects them to die anyway. And then they get it made! Actually it is a very funny movie. Bruce Campbell is fantastic.