Excellent but underrated film

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

This is a sequel to The Mummy's hand. It is scarier then The Mummy's hand and that is not easy to do. The Mummy's ghost is scarier. The Mummy cures is also scarier. This is a horror classic. 5.8 is a good ratting. But this such a great movie 5.8 is underrating it. This is a 9. It has great acting. It also has a great story line. It also has great special effects. If this movie does not scary you no movie will. This 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 Friday the 13th and that is not easy to do. Harold Young is a great film maker. This is one of the his best movies. See it.

'The Mummy's Tomb' has been described as a mean-spirited venture taking, as it does, the appealing main characters from the previous film (Dick Foran's Steve Banning and Wallace Ford's Babe from 'The Mummy' Hand,' 1940) and reintroducing them as old men who are slaughtered by Kharis. More reliant than any other Mummy production on re-running footage from previous instalments – including Tom Tyler as the reincarnated prince – this highlights the massive difference between Tyler and the stockier, less animated Lon Chaney Jr, whose bulky frame is far from the cadaverous image typical of the living dead. Also included in the stock footage is the shooting of George Zucco's Andoheb character, in all its glory. Riddled with four bullets fired into him at close range, he reappears here suffering merely from a 'shattered arm'.So long are these flashbacks that we feel we have already seen an entire story when 'The Mummy's Tomb' actually begins telling its tale. Andoheb's right hand man is Mehement Bey, played by the wonderful Turhan Bey, who was something of a sex symbol in his day. Slick and elegant, Bey is restrained here, resisting the temptation to overplay his familiar lines, and his character emerges as the most interesting in the film. As is the way of things, he falls for hero John's (John Hubbard) girlfriend Isobel Evans (Elyse Knox), which spells the beginning of his undoing.What remains of the running time is fairly routine. Chaney despised the role of Kharis, and this is understandable. The charred, limping gait is cosily chilling, but it is a thankless role for an actor. Having said that, there is a familiarity with this series that is never less than endearing. And although the aged Steve Banning and his friend Babe (whose surname changes from Jenson in the previous instalment to Hansen in this) are too likable to be killed so perfunctorily (the remaining good guys are a comparatively faceless lot), this remains a formulaic but enjoyable production. The fiery finale is well-staged, but no-one truly believes it is the end of Kharis, not even in 1942.

This entry in Universal's classic Mummy series is often dismissed for having too much stock footage from the previous entry, The Mummy's Hand, of which this is a sequel of, but I think The Mummy's Tomb improves on The Mummy's Hand in more than one counts. 1) The cinematography, esp. the lighting is much more sophisticated here. 2) The priest's infatuation with the white woman is better developed. In the previous entry, it was too sudden. Here, it is anticipated. 3) The iconic scenes of mummy-carrying-away-the-damsel-in-distress are longer. Setting the plot in an American town with a history of witch-hunts was also a nice touch. The movie would be even better if they had made more use of the cemetery setting. The downside for me is the ludicrous resort to torch(!)-carrying, rather than say flash-light carrying, masses in the finale.

Nothing will ruin a movie as much as the combination of a poor script and poor direction. This is the case with "The Mummy's Tomb."The script is leftover ideas from older, better Universal horror flicks like "Dracula" and "Frankenstein." The direction is trite and stale. The acting is mediocre. Even Chaney's Kharis is feeble compared to Tom Tyler's in "The Mummy's Hand," and the producers are foolish enough to add footage from Christy Cabanne's vastly better prequel and point up the weakness of their own film!Universal realized how bad this movie was, and essentially remade it from scratch two years later as "The Mummy's Ghost" with a much better script and better director. The result was likely the best film in their four film "Mummy" cycle, although not anywhere near as good as Karl Freund's 1932 original.Cabanne's footage raises this film to a 3. The "new" stuff is a 2 at best. Dick Foran and Wallace Ford were probably glad to see their characters bumped off so they wouldn't have to appear in dreck like this anymore!