What better way to show that I am now over my meglamania, and back into the land of Wargaming sanity (notice that important clarification), than to talk about playing games in the setting of a C Grade movie!!

This is the second part of a post I wrote before Christmas of which I will only repeat some.

After falling into a lengthy coma following a freak accident involving hip gyration, a now aged Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) wakes up in an East Texas nursing home, where he befriends Jack (Ossie Davis), an African-American senior who claims to be President John F. Kennedy. I just love the way Elvis just accepts Jack at his word. After residents of their quiet retirement community start dying of dubiously unnatural causes, Elvis and Jack discover that the perpetrator is Bubba Ho-Tep (Bob Ivy), an Egyptian mummy with murderous intentions.

The model I was going to use for Ossie Davis is now finished and both he and Elvis are about to make their table debut in a few weeks time, when some Egyptian fantasy figures will also hopefully be completed.

Bob Murch’s Pulp Figures set PHP 06 “Masterminds” – I intend to use the wheelchair bound figure and the nurse for “Bubba Hotep” games.

The closing scenes of the movie show the two old geezers in a fight to the finish with Bubba Ho-Tep, but unlike the spate of superhero movies of late these two have no superhero powers, and are just two old codgers engaged in a fight with the obvious hilarious consequences.

At one level the movie doesn’t work. It is not a horror movie because my ninety one year old mother is scarrier than Bubba Ho-Tep (believe me), and it is far too clever for a cult movie, but on another it does. I found it hilariously funny and it has poignant moments that challenge our views of the Aged.

I cannot wait to organise a game with these guys as the heroes in the true super hero style just because I can.