Really Surprised!

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Time Walker (1982) * 1/2 (out of 4)King Tut's tomb is open and inside a mummy is discovered. The mummy is taken back to a college campus where Professor McCadden (Ben Murphy) tries to find out more history about it but one student steals six jewels that were located inside the tomb. This here brings the mummy back to life and it sets out for revenge but there's a twist to his story.TIME WALKER isn't a very memorable movie, although there are a few interesting ideas scattered throughout its running time. The film's biggest problem is the fact that it's rather tame and really doesn't fit what a horror film from this era was about. There's a brief bit of nudity and some mild violence but there's certainly nothing overly memorable here. I will say that the mummy looks pretty good, although he certainly needed more action.The performances aren't the greatest either but they're not nearly as bad as they could have been. The best thing going for the film is the fact that the twist involves the mummy actually being an alien. This is a rather interesting idea and it's really too bad that the entire screenplay wasn't built around this idea. The deal with the stolen jewels wasn't all that original but the alien twist is something that works but sadly it happens at the end of the picture.TIME WALKER is of mild interest to fans of mummy movies but others will want to avoid.

Killer mummy on the loose! In a way… but wait for the twist. The supernatural b-feature "Time Walker" is very much on a shoe-string budget and it shows, especially in its lousy prop designs, visual effects and editing job. The story is a mess, despite an interesting and ambitious premise (involving a mysterious, if dangerous green fungus and a disappearing mummy on campus) with a lame ending (though it's not really one) that only cheapens the overall affect (sequel on mind, but the lame TV show cop out --- "To be continued"). Some of it works, but most of it doesn't come off due to its creaky execution and plodding pace. It does feel much longer than its actual running time, but I didn't find it all that boring even though not much did happen with a lot of talky passages chucking about theories and then trying figure out what they are dealing with. Where's the Scooby Do and Mystery Inc. gang when you need them? There's no doubting that it becomes very loopy the further along its goes, but while the mummy stalk sequences are few and far between those that do eventuated are modestly displayed. We even get mummy vision - filtered green! How the mummy gets around is even better when we see it rolling by… skateboard? How else could get a floating effect. The performances aren't particularly notable, but agreeable nonetheless with some recognizable faces like Kevin Brophy, Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, James Karen and Greta Blackburn.

This is a perfect example of the kind of low-level, low budget, crummy movie that really should not have been made in the first place. It has the feel of a "direct-to-cable/3rd feature at the Drive-in" snooze fest that never really generates any interest or momentum. The best you can say about it is that it helped a bunch of B-to-Z level actors make their condo payments, that Sherry Belafonte-Harper was fairly cute, and that both the director of photography and the soundtrack composer worked really hard to pump up the watch-ability of this movie with a lot of extra jiving and filling.Poor Ben Murphy slogs along as best he can here, trying to make the audience (all 4 or us) believe that he is an archaeologist. I'll give him this; even in a snooze like this movie, where all the close-ups are held too long and every scene has the drama and pacing of a drivers' ed training film, he remains amiable and likable. God only knows how hard "Time Walker" would have been to watch if he hadn't at least given the movie his agreeable screen presence. People make fun of him, and he is a light-weight, but I've always liked the guy; I hope he made a million dollars and retired happily somewhere.The rest of the cast comes off as somewhere between "unlikeable" and "despicable", (I have no idea what they are like in real life, so please don't take this as character assassination), so you actually sort of enjoy it (instead of being horrified) when the mummy kills them. Of course, that may have been the intention of the movie, but in that case, the director could at least have made the deaths a little more memorable. I saw better staged monster attacks in the infamous "Pod People" - the victim's death-scenes here are like watching hamsters getting squished with a giant clown hammer. And Belafonte-Harper actually has some on camera charisma, but the movie doesn't seem to know what to do with her - she seems to be in, but not of, the film. It's as if she wanted the exposure, but she couldn't bear to actually be involved in the plot. The movie ends with Murphy's character teleporting off with the mummy to an unknown fate (good riddance) and the dean's assistant screaming into the camera as left-over space slime eats his hand. I think this was meant to leave us with a feeling of mystery and wonder and horror, but it left me with a profound feeling of relief that this bag of creaky dramatic devices was finally done. Not the worst or most incompetent movie I've ever seen, but definitely pretty useless.

OK, let's face it... this movie stinks out loud. HOWEVER, there is one recommendation: You must check out the MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 episode that tackles this terrible film!! MST3K thrives on poking fun at the worst movies ever made, the worse they are-the funnier the show is. For those who don't know what MST3K is, it's a TV show that ran in the 90's. It had a simple idea, a mad scientist forces a guy to watch horrible, mind-numbingly bad movies to see which one will make the young man crack. In an effort to keep his sanity, the guy,Joel(and later Mike)is imprisoned on a satellite. So he builds some robots who watch along with him. The three of them completely rip on these movies.The films are shown in their entirety, sometimes along with old shorts and newsreels as well.If you haven't had the pleasure of this show, look it up and treat yourself. TIME WALKER(know as BEING FROM ANOTHER PLANET,for the MST3k episode) is one of their best.