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Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

TheRedDeath30 I am a sucker for Universal monsters and generally love all of the sequels, but this is probably one of my least favorites as the quality had just really dropped at this point in the Mummy series.Somehow Kharis and Ananka walk into a swamp in Middleton, MA and are resurrected 30 years later in the Louisiana bayou. The make this even worse, there's not any logical explanation given, in fact they act like the events of the previous movie happened right here. They even, somehow, find an abandoned monastery in what has to be the only hill in the bayou, if for no other reason than because every other Kharis sequel had a temple on a hill and sequences on the steps (or in the case of MUMMY'S GHOST a shack on stilts with a mine car ramp).The movie is a mess of stereotypical characters who are given very little depth. An archaeologist rolls into town (you know he's an archaeologist because he wears a Pith helmet) along with his assistant (you know he's Egyptian because he wears a Fez). Secretly, the assistant is the latest in a long line of high priests sworn to protect Kharis and Ananka and he set the events in motion. Along the way we meet a stereotypical swamp resident who's named Cajun Joe just in case we didn't get that we was Cajun and an awful caricature of a black man named Goobie, who's given lots of "Hey massa" lines. All of the movies in the series proceeding this were of some diminishing quality but at least all had some positives to them. There's just nothing in the tank by this point. Even the few violent scenes that we get are pretty lame. I should have known when the movie opens with a song what I was getting myself into.

kevin olzak 1944's "The Mummy's Curse" was the fourth and last of the Kharis series, third to star Lon Chaney in the title role, and the only one not included in Universal's popular SHOCK! television package, having to wait for 1958's SON Of SHOCK, the same fate that befell beloved classics like "Bride of Frankenstein," "The Ghost of Frankenstein," and "House of Dracula." Going from a Massachusetts swamp to the Louisiana bayou is certainly a stretch, but not as much as setting the date an incredible 25 years later. The unexceptional Peter Coe ("House of Frankenstein") is this film's bland High Priest of Arkham, Ilzor Zandaab (his screen time quite limited), his recent disciple, the lascivious Ragheb (Martin Kosleck), providing all the knife wielding villainy to spice up the proceedings. An excavation of the swamp leaves one man dead, the knife still in his back, and a space just large enough for a mummy; shortly afterwards, another finds a hand emerging from its burial place, revealing the now revived Princess Ananka (Virginia Christine), who had gone down with Kharis at the conclusion of "The Mummy's Ghost." Making her way to a nearby lake, the Princess emerges perfectly coiffured (every hair in place!), if a bit wet and amnesiac, spelling death for all those who take her in. There are solid roles for veterans Addison Richards, Holmes Herbert, Kurt Katch, Charles Stevens, William Farnum, and Ann Codee, criminally unbilled as Tante Berthe. Popular years later playing Mrs. Olsen in the Folgers commercials, Virginia Christine scores impressively as Ananka (her natural blonde locks hidden under a jet black wig), light years better than the insipid Ramsay Ames in "The Mummy's Ghost" (her other Universal horror was the doomed prostitute who encounters Rondo Hatton's Creeper in 1946's "House of Horrors"). This marked the end of Kay Harding's brief stardom at Universal ("Weird Woman," "The Scarlet Claw"), while Martin Kosleck, previously seen in the still unissued "The Frozen Ghost," continued his scene stealing ways in "Pursuit to Algiers," "House of Horrors," and "She-Wolf of London." For a role he so fervently despised, Lon Chaney's Mummy again fares well, his frustration palpable, continuously (even comically) one step behind his beloved Princess (the climax finds them both headed permanently to Manhattan's Scripps Museum). This appears to have been the most popular of his three outings, reprising the role in 1959's Mexican "La Casa del Terror" and on television's ROUTE 66 (the 1962 Halloween broadcast "Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing," opposite Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre). "The Mummy's Curse" made a total of six appearances on Pittsburgh's Chiller Theater- Sept 25 1965 (following 1963's "Battle Beyond the Sun"), Feb 10 1968 (following 1933's "The Invisible Man"), Sept 30 1972 (following 1944's "House of Frankenstein"), Jan 25 1975 (following 1960's "The Lost World"), Sept 20 1975 (following 1969's "Godzilla's Revenge"), and Apr 23 1977 (following 1935's "Bride of Frankenstein").

AaronCapenBanner Lon Chaney Jr. returned for the last time as Kharis the living mummy, who is unearthed(along with his beloved Princess Ananka) from their swampy grave by builders excavating the area for re-development. Once again, a high priest(played by Peter Coe) and his native assistant(played by Martin Koslek) are after them as well, and want to return them to their native Egypt, but local Scripps Museum representatives have other ideas, leading to a final climax to the "saga"... Bizarre film is set 25 years after "Ghost", placing this in the year 1995!(Or so)Huh? It still looks like the 1940's to me! Even worse, the previous two pictures were set in Mapleton Massachusetts, now they are located in Louisiana! Huh? It makes no sense, and poor continuity only makes this tired, dated and redundant film worse.

bkoganbing With The Mummy's Curse Universal Pictures finally put an end to the Kharis the Mummy films which had gotten sillier with each sequel. With this futuristic Mummy film they reached what they thought was the bottom.When we last left Lon Chaney, Jr., as Kharis in The Mummy's Ghost he was taking his reincarnated Princess Ananka into the swamps where he was sinking into the bog as the film ended. Twenty five years later which would put it in 1969 the swamp which was in Massachusetts, but now in Louisiana is being drained.For a film that was set in the future, Universal did absolutely no speculation about what 1969 would look like. People dress the same, have the same rides and television which people knew was on the horizon is not accounted for at all.Anyway the Kharis/Ananka cult hears about the swamp drain in Egypt and once again a pair of handlers is now sent to get Kharis and Ananka back to Egypt. The handlers are Peter Coe and Martin Kosleck. And the usual chaos and mayhem is created by Chaney killing everyone between him and Ananka. The bulldozers draining the swamp have also unearthed Ananka and she's played by Virginia Christine and she's alive, part in the 20th century, part in ancient Egypt. The reunion doesn't quite go as planned for the two lovebirds to say the least.This was the end of the 'serious' Mummy films for Universal. The Mummy would have one more go, but it would be eleven years later and only as a foil for Abbott&Costello which is what happened to all the Universal Gothic horror pantheon. The Mummy's Curse mercifully ended the saga on a low note, but I will say the film had a few good if unintentioned laughs.