GL84 Still alive and searching for his long-lost love's remains, the mummified Kharis sets out to find her body and comes across a college student reincarnated as his love which puts his rampage in jeopardy as he tries to save her.This turned out to be quite the enjoyable effort in the series. More than anything else, what works here is the rather large amount of screen time given to the mummy, having a chance to really get a lot of scenes even if he's just shuffling through the background though this one does have some enjoyable moments. Among them are the early attack at the professor's home along with the abduction later on which manages to feature a lot of fun in the initial abduction and transportation scenes along with the scenes of the crises of faith in the temple all making this one quite enjoyable. There's still several other big highlights here, the big one obviously being the finale in the hideout as the mummy tries protecting the girl from the townspeople attempting to reclaim her back while it wages a secondary fight to hold off his attempts to get with her and the end result of all this action is the fire-packed burning of the building in a spectacular display. As well, the sequence in the museum works rather well as the ceremony to restore her is nice B-level charm and the resulting encounter with the guard makes for a rather exciting time. Finally, this one fully explores the connection history of the tanna leaves in resurrecting and controlling the mummy, all of which helps this one overcome its few flaws. Frankly, the biggest stumbling block here is the inherent cheapness in practically everything from the special effects to the mummy costume and even the sets in the different hideouts which are quite obvious and really distracting at times. Also, despite the fact that the mummy has a lot of screen time most of it is random shot of him shuffling around in brief interstitial scenes without really showing it doing much. It really makes these scenes pretty questionable, almost as questionable as the decision to have a hideout with a gimpy-legged creature on top of a mineshaft with a one- hundred-plus inclined slope to get to it. The concept is pretty stupid and is executed similarly. It's not as big a detriment but it does stand with the other flaws.Today's Rating-Unrated/PG: Mild Violence.

dougdoepke 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.

bkoganbing The last time we left Lon Chaney, Jr. as Kharis the Mummy he was burned again in a fire. But you can't keep a good Mummy down if there is money to be made in a sequel which Universal Pictures has provided in The Mummy's Ghost. Although how you can have a ghost of an undead creature I will leave to the metephysicians.George Zucco sends another handler for Kharis this time it's John Carradine. The assignment get the Princess Ananka's Mummy out of display at the museum and get them both back to their tombs in Egypt. And of course kill anyone who gets in the way.In a plot element taken from the Boris Karloff mummy film, a young girl of Egyptian descent is the Princess reincarnated. Ramsay Ames is going out with Robert Lowery, but when Carradine starts his chants Kharis starts moving about, she gets all strange.In fact Ananka's body finally turns to dust because Ames has become Ananka. Kharis still has a 3000 year old crush on her and he's had no nookie for that long so no wonder he's got such a bad attitude. Carradine like Turhan Bey the Kharis handler in the previous film gets his own crush on the leading lady.Add Barton MacLane to the mix as the police inspector tracking down all these Kharis homicides and you've got a recipe for a film that was wearing a really thin premise to start with to death.The Mummy films were getting weaker and weaker.

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** By far the worst of the "Mummy" movies has a young Abraham Lincoln looking John Carradine as Egyptian priest Yousef Bey who's instructed by his boss Andoheb the high priest of Arkan, George Zucco, to travel to Mapleton USA and retrieve the body of the long dead, for some 3,000 years, Princess Ananka, Ramsay Ames, from the town Scripp Museum.Were told that some 30 years earlier Ananka's lover Kharis the Mummy, played by Lon Chaney Jr, went on a rampage through town trying to get her back on the first boat to Egypt. Kharis ended up being burned to a crisps when he was trapped by the angry townspeople in a deserted house. As things tuned out Kharis just went on vacation and was just waiting for a chance to come back to life and finish the job that he started 30 years ago! It was in fact Scripps Museum curator Prof. M. Norman, Frank Reicher, by discovering the secret of eternal life in the fluid of nine brewed Tana leaves that brought Kharis back. This ended up costing Prof. Norman's life when Kharis paid him a visit at his office where he was brewing the Tana leaves!Slurping up the Tana leaf solution Kharis went on his way with Jousef Bey directing him to find Princess Ananka and bring her back home to her eternal resting place in Egypt. What Yousef Bey didn't figure on is that the princess was not in her tomb at the Scripps Museum but in fact was reincarnated as Amina Mansouri! An Egyptian exchange student at Scripps Collage studying ancient Egyptian history!The movie really goes nowhere with Kharis doing what he does best by killing a number of unsuspecting Mapleton citizens, just to keep in practice, as he goes on his search for Princess Ananka who's soul is now in the body of Amina Mansouri. When Kharis finally does find the princess, as Amina Mansouri, it's Jousef Bey who screws things up by trying to keep her all for himself at the now angry as hell Kharis' expense! This has Kharis throw a fit as well as throw Yousef Bay to his death from the top of the mine shaft where Ananka/Amina was being kept. It's now up to Amina boyfriend Tom Hervey, Robert Lowery, to save the day as well as her life by taking on the what looks like the indestructible Mummy Kharis! ***SPOILERS*** As things turned out it was the cute little dog Peanuts, who's a dead ringer for Toto from the "Wizard of Oz", who in fact put an end to Kharis reign of terror. With Peanuts Sniffing Kharis out at the abundant mine shaft outside of town he has an angry mob cornered him and chase Kharis with Ananka in hand into the nearby swamp. Tom Hervey who was at first ready to jump into the swamp to save his girlfriend Amina's life had second thoughts when she started showing her true age, 3,000 years old give or take a century, and soon came to the realization that it wasn't worth the effort!