everything you have heard about this movie is true.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Copyright 31 December 1943 by Universal Pictures Co., Inc. New York opening at the Rialto: 30 June 1944. U.S. release: 7 July 1944. U.K. release: 2 June 1947 (sic). Australian release: 6 July 1944. 6 reels. 5,499 feet. 61 minutes.SYNOPSIS: Sequel to The Mummy's Tomb starring Chaney junior as the mummy. Since Turhan Bey failed in the previous movie, Egyptian priest Zucco sends John Carradine to New England to help the mummy find his princess. This time a young college co-ed played by Ramsay Ames is the Ananka look-alike.NOTES: Number four of the seven-picture "Mummy" series.COMMENT: The story continues on from The Mummy's Tomb (1942). The mummy it appears was not destroyed in the fire after all, but only disfigured - if you can imagine a mummy being disfigured, though his one eye is rather frightening. Lon Chaney is so completely swathed in bandages as to be unrecognizable - any stuntman or cheap double could have done just as well. Robert Lowery is a rather wet hero, though Ramsay Ames makes a rather fetching heroine and there is a solid cast of character players.Le Borg's direction is much, much more stylish than his usual humble standard. Some of the sequences are compellingly stated and good use is made of natural locations at the climax. The film looks well-produced though Sickner's photography lacks the atmosphere that Woody Bredell would have brought to the film. The eerie effects are mainly achieved through Jack Pierce's skilled make-up and Salter's well-thumbed musical compilation of standard Universal "B"-picture themes.There is more than a hint of blasphemy in the script's adaptation of King James-type prayers to pagan identities such as Amon-Ra and it's odd that this was deemed acceptable by the supposedly strict censors of 1944.

In a lot of ways, the original Universal Mummy series of movies set the blueprint for what a horror sequel should be. Consider all of the similarities to modern series like Friday THE 13th. The monster keeps returning film after film, even though we've seen him destroyed each time. Even more, there is seldom any rational explanation given for his return, he just simply is back because the studio needed him to be. Though there is some half-hearted attempt to connect the continuity of the series, for the most part each of the movies features completely different actors in completely different scenarios, the only common thread being the monster itself. Each sequel supplanted the atmosphere and quality of the original by increasing the violence and sex (okay, so by sex I'm talking about a hip-hugging night gown in this case, but it's the 40s, right). At this point in the Mummy series, they are pretty much following a cookie cutter format. We have George Zucco as the high priest of an Egyptian order initiating a new priest (in this case John Carradine). That priest's purpose is to resurrect Kharis the Mummy to avenge some wrong. Queue up a few random murders from the Mummy until we meet the modern reincarnation of the lost princess. Some drama unfolds until the Mummy can kidnap her, but instead the priest falls in love with her and ruins everything. I am not lumping the original Karloff classic into this mold. That's an excellent atmospheric creeper with a dreamlike tone, but the four Kharis movies pretty much follow the same path but with diminishing quality.If there are "positives" here I would say that Chaney puts some more effort into his role as Kharis in this one that he did in the previous MUMMY'S TOMB. I still don't understand why one arm doesn't work and I miss the hollow eyes that they employed in MUMMY'S HAND, but he's more physically imposing in this one. Also, this is the only classic horror film I can recount from memory that does not have your standard "hero saves the day" ending. I don't want to spoil too much, but it's pretty dark for a movie from this time period.Most everything else about this movie pales in comparison to the ones before it. The boyfriend and his college pals are just bad actors, with some terrible dialog written for them. They are just there for nothing more than to move the plot along. Same goes for the museum types and the police, who are all cardboard and offered nothing much to do. Even John Carradine, who I normally enjoy, is not nearly the maniacal villain that the previous priests were.It's not awful and there's still a lot of fun to be had in this movie, but it's not one of the best Uni sequels by any sort.

No need to recap the plot—the point is the mummy's on the loose again, dragging his foot behind. As a kid, I could never get too scared since the 3,000-year old guy moves like he's even older. So I figured why doesn't everyone just run away when he comes, but then his movies show how really good he is at trapping people, and how they're toast after that. Plus, he can have an occasional hissy-fit, as he does here when he re-decorates the museum with one big hammer hand. And guess who's cooking his tanna leaf dinner this time. It's scary old John Carradine looking and sounding like a voice from beyond the grave. Between them, I still get a few chills, even this many years later. But one thing has really changed between then and now. Now I follow the beauteous Ramsay Ames like a bee on honey. Okay, so her acting is not exactly Oscar bait—but with looks like that, it doesn't have to be. Thanks to her and my improved glands, I now understand why old bandage body keeps wandering around Universal's backlot looking for her in movie after movie. I would too. Anyway, not a whole lot happens on screen til that bang-up finale when you might say everything and everyone comes together in front of a rickety old trestle to nowhere. However, I do recommend that Miss Ames keep her beauteous make-up on, since that last frame does nothing for getting her a next job.

Here we have the 3rd of 4 movies 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 GHOST takes place in poor, little Mapleton Massachusetts. Kharis has been presumably just wandering around the countryside like a dirty hippie since the end of the last mummy movie. When a professor brew up some nice Tana leave tea Kharis comes running (in a manner of speaking) like a hungry hound at chow time, kills the Prof. and guzzles down the tana tea. At the same time, yet another high priest is skulking about trying to get Kharis and Ananka, who is cooling her moldy heels in the local museum, back to Egypt. But you know how it goes with mummies. One thing leads to another and the high priest realizes that Ananka's soul resides in the body (meeOW) of a local girl, Amina Mansouri. He starts out trying to kill Mansouri in order to free Ananka's soul so it can return to her old mummy body (EWW!) but decides to keep her for himself and nuts to Kharis and the laws of Amon-Ra. Well sir, Kharis doesn't much cotton to this idea and he throws the high priest out a window and over a cliff. He then grabs Mansouri and carries her into one of Massachusetts many, many swamps where he and the rapidly aging Mansouri/Ananka sink into quicksand.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 . I found the Mummy's Ghost especially interesting in the way the townspeople were so accepting of the fact that a mummy was loose in their town. They gathered together, rather calmly to discuss how they were going to deal with it. I guess it just shows the scrappy attitude of people in that day when they can just comfortably roll up their sleeves and go out on a mummy hunt, as if they were going out to trap gophers . Mapleton is one Bad a$$ town.There is nothing classic about this movie, it was made quickly and cheaply and it shows. But it gives you what all b movies should: an hour or so of decent, escapist entertainment.