Bubba Ho-Tep | ||
 | Composer: Brian Tyler Label: Conductor: Buy this soundtrack: | |
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| 01 Prologue (0:55) 02 Bubba (0:51) 03 The King (2:10) 04 Lets Go , Man (1:49) 05 The Kings Highway (2:09) 06 A-C-T-I-O-N (2:30) 07 Bubba's Lament (1:42) 08 The Ancient Curse (1:45) 09 Ghost Of The Scarab (1:02) 10 Trailer Park (2:01) 11 One Bad Ho-Tep (1:29) 12 The Mask Of Kemosabe (2:05) 13 The Shady Rest (0:53) 14 Pbbs (2:01) 15 Baby (0:44) 16 The Heroes Hallway (1:36) 17 Elder Hole (2:07) 18 Flashback Baby (1:38) 19 Body Bag Of Fun (1:18) 20 Regret (0:53) 21 The Mummy's Eye (1:58) 22 Smokin Nurse (1:48) 23 The Decision (0:57) 24 Death Of A President (1:04) 25 The Sabastion Half Show (1:11) 26 Haff Rising (1:13) 27 Investigation (1:24) 28 Thank You Very Much (0:41) 29 All Is Well (2:15) 30 Bubba Ho-Tep End Title Credits (5:40) Total Length: 50:02 | ||||||||||
More Soundtracks by Brian Tyler Reviewed by - Grade: The King is alive and well in the imagination of Don Coscarelli. A film that suspends our disbelief just long enough to watch Elvis Aaron Presley battle a 5,000 year old mummy who is terrorizing a convalescence home
and sucking human souls out of the asses of its victims, we are also introduced to a score that I believe is one of the best to come along in years. Obviously a film with a premise such as this did not get any attention from the major studios
so Coscarelli (in pure Don style) set out to film it the same way he did the original Phantasm...indie! Due to budget constraints, they had to limit what they could do for a score and turned to Brian Tyler to perform a piece of magic.
Whether or not the players in the film are actually who they say they are, we are led to believe that this is really Elvis. He is old, battered, and broken down after coming out of a coma and he has given up on life. He has lost all glory he ever had and we continuously hear this thoughts as he reflects on his family, his life, and human existence. Although there are no moral lessons to be learned from this film, it almost seems as if we are being taught one. There is something about the way he hear the inner thoughts of the King that seems to speak to us on levels we cannot comprehend. We really already know all these things and have probably all imagined at one point or other what the King would be thinking were he alive today. I set this stage in length because of the job Brian Tyler had cut out for him. How do you capture the mood set by watching the King reflect on a life gone horribly wrong? Using extended guitar chords and synthesized strings, a somber mood is brilliantly captured. Coscarelli's script is constantly asking the question "why?". A guitar is associated with Rock and Roll and the use of bellowing guitar strums echoes away in step with the thoughts of the King. When Elvis has flashbacks to his glory days, the same theme seems to be resurrected for a more agile and young Evlis. It is energetic, fresh, and simple. When we are brought back to the Shady Grove convalescence home, the somber broken Elvis theme re-surfaces. I had a friend who saw this film and he said the music sucked. He said it kept repeating and was boring. I told him he missed the point. While the mummy theme is usually a track that I gloss over, the mummy really isn't the point of the film at all. This is why the score works so well. It is consistent. It is slow. It helps us to answer the question "why?" that the King seems to be struggling with. What is his purpose now in life? The film overall is a comedy, the horror of it is probably moreso in the fact that the King is alive. But some elements of the score work well with the comedic parts which rely on a soda shop 50's twist of the main theme. Tyler does a great job of increasing the tempo of his main theme and making it more powerful with the use of a synthesized choir for The Heroes Hallway. That is what the King must do. He must become the hero to save the souls of the folks in this home from this mummy. Tyler works this effectively and as we move to the end of the movie, he captures the magic of what I also feel is one of the more original endings I've seen in a while. The track All Is Well seems to capture the feeling of salvation that Elvis has at the end of the film. The ancient egyptian gods seem to speak out to him and Tyler culminates all of the themes into a finale that is befitting for a King. As the gods speak to him, he provides us his signature line "Thank you, thank you very much..." and we fade into darkness. If you are looking for the kind of score you just want to throw on when you're having one of those days, or when you just want to mellow out, I suggest you get Bubba Ho-Tep. You too will find yourself glossing over the Mummy themes and this score isn't for everyone. In fact, most people will ignore it. But for those that pick it up, they'll find a gem of a score from a gem of a film. More Movie Soundtracks
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