Simply A Masterpiece

hyped garbage

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

This is a really scary movie. This is scarier then The Mummy's hand. And that is not easy to do. This is also scarier then the The Mummy's tomb and that is not easy to do. This is also scarier then The Mummy's ghost and that is not easy to do. This movie has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. 5.6 is a good ratting. But this is such a great movie that 5.6 is underrating it. This is a 9. If this movie does not scary you no movie will. It is scarier then The Shining. And that is not easy to do. This is scarier then A Nightmare on elm street and that is not easy to do. This is scarier then Halloween and that is not easy to do.

The last Universal mummy movie. This one transports Kharis and Ananka from Massachusetts to Louisiana! When last seen they sank in a swamp together. Here they're unearthed by yet another high priest from Egypt. He plans to bring them back to Egypt and will kill anyone who tries to stop them. However (in a genuinely eerie sequence) Ananka (Virginia Christie) claws her way out of the swamp and wanders around with no knowledge of who she is.It's silly but it works. The setting is atmospheric, the acting isn't bad (Christie is excellent) and her resurrection is more than a little spooky. It also has an ending that left the room for no more sequels. Not a great movie but much better than "The Mummy's Ghost" which preceded it.

This movie is a hackneyed, cheap, rushed dog of a production. What in heaven's name are the Mummy and his princess doing wandering around Louisiana? Ridiculous. I am sorry but the fake Cajun accents are such a mismatch with ancient Egyptian stories this is just almost a non-movie. Louisiana and Egypt are both done a disservice here.The script was shoehorned into the Louisiana locale and so is also just a total mess.But the cast is good. Zucco is fantastic in his small role. Holmes Herbert is solid in his role as the doctor, Carradine is perfect and does a good job. Virginia Christine brings off her role in a sincere, fascinating and watchable way, and gives us a new and improved take on the princess. Kay Harding is fine as the darling ingénue daughter of a tough foreman. I like to hear Ms. Harding speak with her unaffected soft voice and kind persona.Ridiculous hack ideas are behind the concept of everything that takes place in this whole film. The lumbering, sad mummy is totally out of place (no tomb, no museum, no Egypt, etc.), as he wanders around the Louisiana countryside. The unwatchable ideas just keep coming so the film becomes curiously watchable to see how bad can it get, and is saved by the effective cast.

An irrigation project in the rural bayous of Louisiana unearths Kharis the living mummy (Lon Chaney Jr.), who was buried in quicksand 25 years earlier.Apparently, if you do the math, this film is set in 1997. I have not independently verified this, but presume it to be true. What I find amusing about that is not how wrong they were about 53 years in the future, but how right. Aside from certain minor aspects (the hairstyles and the second-class status of women and minorities) the 1990s were not all that different from the 1940s. If you look at most films set twenty (not even fifty) years in the future, they make such outrageous predictions and are almost always wrong.I liked the humor of this film. Whether intentional or not, the people of Louisiana depicted here were great. Sure, they were caricatures and possibly stereotypes. Maybe that makes me a bad person that I found them amusing, but I did. Universal and the 1940s... such an interesting era, it really makes you miss Universal in the 1930s.