Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

I keep reading complaints how the shift from New England to Louisiana is unexplained. It isn't. In the opening bits where the archaeologist talks with the authorities he tells how the priests moved the mummy to Louisiana 25 years ago. (It was perhaps the synopsis of an unfilmed sequel.) Anyhow the dialogue fully explains the shift in location and one needs only to listen to find out. Oh and Virginia Christine is absolutely gorgeous. I only wish they had given her more screen time.Also, Classicsoncall in his review says "We're signaled to the emergence of the Kharis legend by the first appearance of a dead body, but has anyone noticed that the laborer Antoine died with a knife in his back? Kharis always did his dirty work with his left hand, leaving bandage mold behind on the neck of his victims." This too is inaccurate. It was the priest's assistant who killed Antoine after they dug Kharis up. Again it's clearly stated in the dialogue. It's fine and dandy to criticize a movie for its shortcomings but the criticisms should be accurate. Stuff like that can turn off a potential viewer. If you're not going to pay attention to the dialogue then you really have no business submitting an inaccurate review.

A slight improvement over the previous sequel, "The Mummy's Curse" brought some sort of closure to Universals' "Kharis" series of Mummy pictures. It benefits from being more atmospheric and eerie, and having a brighter leading lady than usual. When in doubt, flee the monster!The story is somewhat ignorant of the end of "The Mummy's Ghost". Kharis and Ananka sank into a New England swamp at the end of that one. Now, Kharis (Lon Chaney, Jr.) has been dug up from a *New Orleans* swamp during an irrigation project. Ananka is now played by Virginia Christine (a beauty), yet houses a dual, modern personality, the alternate being somewhat confused by her predicament. The last in the line of Egyptian high priests determined to unite the two is the nefarious Ilzor Zandaab (Peter Coe). Helped by an associate named Ragheb (Martin Kosleck), he spurs Kharis to do what he does best, and to kill anybody in his way.Chaney is decent here, getting to be somewhat more expressive. Dennis Moore is the requisite studly hero, Dr. James Halsey. Kurt Katch gets to ham it up as N.O. character Cajun Joe, and Ann Codee is fun as singer / saloon owner Tante Berthe. Lovely Kay Harding is engaging as the niece / employee of ill-tempered boss Pat Walsh (Addison Richards); Richards is an absolute hoot as a born skeptic. And Coe & Kosleck are effective villains. Christine is definitely a standout.Although not in the same league as the film that began Universals' Mummy franchise, this does offer some fun, and at least concludes things reasonably well.It does go awfully heavy on the exposition / back story, though, utilizing archive footage from both "The Mummy" (1932) and "The Mummy's Hand".Seven out of 10.

Here we have the final movie in Universal's Mummy series. You don't really need to describe the plot because I think it is pretty much the same in every one of these Mummy films. Mummy meets girl. Mummy and girl fall in love, violating the laws of Amon-Ra in the process. Mummy and girl are cursed and buried for thousands of years. Mummy is woken up by rude explorers. Mummy kills explorers. Mummy tries to reunite with girl, who is now a pile of moldy rags.MUMMY'S CURSE finds our happy mummy couple mysteriously unearthed in the bayous of Louisiana. Ananka, in a pretty effective scene, rises from the mud and stumbles to a small town, where she is befriended by the locals. Kharis finally drags himself free of the mud but he's still in moldy Mummy form. When he eventually catches up with Ananka, she realizes that a future with Kharis, sealed in a dusty Egyptian tomb, chasing around his little mummy brats, just isn't for her anymore. There are some problems with another meddling high priest and yadda yadda yadda Kharis ends up bringing down the house...right on his own head.Lon Chaney does a great job as Kharis. He actually manages to convey some emotion through the make-up, and there are a few times when the mummy is portrayed as a relentless, unstoppable juggernaut of destruction. There is a tiny bit of humor and more suspense than I was expecting .There is nothing classic about these movies, they were made quickly and cheaply and it shows. But they give you what all b movies should: an hour or so of decent, escapist entertainment.

And the scene I'm talking about is of course Princess Ananka's awakening from the swamp. Played by the pretty Virginia Christine, this one scene alone stands out from what is a fairly ordinary movie (if still better than the Mummy's Tomb). Ananka's hand slowly rises to the surface of the newly drained swamp, and Ananka herself pushes her way up through the mud and sludge looking like some grotesque manikin. It's a genuinely eerie moment, and one of the best in any Universal 40s horror flick.The rest is basically Lon Chaney's Kharis strangling his way through the cast of characters when they get in the way of his reunion with Ananka. Even if you've seen the previous movies very little of the story makes sense. The swamp into which he sank in The Mummy's Ghost has mysteriously moved from New England to Louisiana; Ananka for some reason is given life and health by the sun (unexplained, though possibly something to do with Amon-Ra being a Sun God), she frequently runs away from her mummified suitor and then calls for him when he's not around (the soul of the princess presumably coming and going at will - or when the script-writers needed it). Chaney lumbers through the part. He publicly stated he hated the role, but in truth there isn't really anything inventive for him to do.This is still an atmospheric little B-movie for all its plot inconsistencies. Some nice moonlit shots of the Mummy lurching down the steps of the abandoned monastery and a good sequence where Kharis almost reaches a car containing Ananka before it speeds away just in time. Universal don't really, er, wrap things up with the end, which seems to suggest another sequel was just around the corner. The Mummy's Curse would prove to be last in the series. At least until Abbott and Costello roughed him up!