Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)

Composer(s):
Brian Tyler

Released in:
2002

Reviews

Wonderful music made from real emotion
by Shawn Watson (January 15, 2005)
As a new film-composer Bryan Tyler has made a name for himself by scoring smaller scale movies before he got his big break with mainstream movies like Darkness Falls and Timeline (only after Jerry Goldsmith's score was rejected). Of all his scores so far, Bubba Ho-Tep is his absolute best.

Obviously you know the movie is about an old-age Elvis battling a mummy in a Texas retirement home. It's not so much a wacky Evil Dead comedy-horror as it is a metaphor for getting old. Tyler's gorgeous main theme reflects exactly that and is filled with regret, sadness and maybe even the slightest feeling of hope. Part of it's brilliance is that it works the way you interpret it.

I owned the CD long before I got the DVD of Bubba Ho-Tep and I must say the score stands well on it's own. It's one of those CDs you can put on no matter what mood you're in and it'll affect you in some way. Sometimes it'll bring you close to tears and at other it's utterly uplifting. How many modern film scores can do that?

An absolute MUST buy for fans of the film (how can you not be?) and essential for those of you who just, plain and simple, love good music.

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