At a piano recital by the accomplished Anthony Lawrence (Ralph Morgan), Mad scientist Dr. Igor Markoff (J. Carrol Naish) spies Lawrence’s daughter (Wanda McKay). Obsessed with her similarity to his dead wife, he injects Lawrence with the disfiguring acromegaly disease as leverage to force her to marry him. Quick Review: One of the more distasteful
A young woman is found murdered in Louisiana, with bite wounds. The Sheriff (David Janssen) searches for the killer from his short list of suspects: the woman’s brother, a strange rustic, the doctor who made her pregnant, the rich land owner (Bradford Dillman), and his sister (Barbara Rush). Made originally for broadcast TV, I had
Peter (Brian Greer), an underachiever with no goals or future, takes a job at a local convenience store in order to help with his sickly parents’ substantial medical bills. There he is befriended by Danny (Sarah Ingraham), an attractive young clerk about to be married. Unbeknownst to both of them, Danny has been bitten by
An archaeological dig, lead by Sir Joseph Whemple (Arthur Byron), unearths the mummy of Imhotep (Boris Karloff). A scroll buried with the mummy brings him back to life. Years later, Imhotep, now masquerading as modern Egyptian Ardath Bey, attempts to bring back his ancient love who has been reincarnated as Helen Grosvenor (Zita Johann), while Sir Joseph’s
Obsessive archeologist John Banning (Peter Cushing), and his even more obsessive father, ignore the standard “all who open this site will die” warning and enter an obscure Egyptian tomb. Banning Sr. is found babbling soon thereafter, and it is not long before Kharis (Christopher Lee), an ancient high priest turned mummy, is strolling the streets
Two groups of treasure-seeking archeologists awaken the mummy of Imhotep. The creature seeks to resurrect his ancient love by sacrificing a beautiful librarian and only an American adventurer and his comrades can save her and the world. Quick Review: Blade and The Mummy began a new movement, adventure films masquerading as horror. In each, a
Stanley Wright and Aloysius C. Whittaker (Bert Wheeler & Robert Woolsey), take jobs as diggers for an archaeologist who plans to return artifacts to a tomb before the curse of the mummy gets him. With the aid of a subservient stowaway (Willie Best), Stanley and Aloysius take over the mission when the archaeologist vanishes. Early
The 4th film in the Kharis series. Workers in a Louisiana swamp uncover the body of the mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.). Again, a priest animates him with tana leaves, and they search for the now arisen Princess Ananka. Somehow, the New England swamp (there are swamps in New England?) from The Mummy’s Ghost has
The 3rd film in the Kharis series. In Mapleton, Massachusetts, the mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) is animated once again by tana leaves. Joined by an Egyptian priest (John Carradine), he searches for the body of Princess Ananka to take it back to Egypt. But her spirit has been reincarnated into the body of a
Out-of-work archaeologists Steve Banning (Dick Foran) and Babe Jenson (Wallace Ford) discover the location of the tomb of princess Ananka. With funds from stage magician Solvani (Cecil Kellaway) and his daughter, Marta (Peggy Moran), they set out into the desert. But the tomb is guarded by an ancient cult, and the priest has the power
Sir Basil Walden (André Morell), wealthy and upright Paul Preston (David Buck), a generic soon-to-be-dead guy, and a hot psychic girl get lost in the desert searching for a boy pharaoh buried in a poor tomb. They couldn’t have gotten lost in a better spot (or Egypt is really small) as it turns out they
Thirty years after Steve Banning (Dick Foran) and Babe Jenson/Hanson (Wallace Ford) found the tomb of Ananka, the cult sends a new priest to the United States, with the mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.), to kill Hanson, Banning, and his family. The time line of the four film Kharis series (The Mummy’s Hand, The Mummy’s Tomb,