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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy ** (1955, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Kurt Katch, Marie Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 5588

‘A man’s best friend is his mummy.’ Director Charles Lamont’s 1955 comedy is another fairly lively Bud Abbott and Lou Costello movie series episode, with good support actors, the expected plot and some decent jokes. In […]

Jun, 12

Curse of the Faceless Man *** (1958, Richard Anderson, Elaine Edwards, Adele Mara, Luis Van Rooten, Gar Moore, Felix Locher) – Classic Movie Review 5299

‘Entombed for eons – turned to stone – seeking women, women, women!’ Stone-encrusted Pompeii lava-man Quintillus Aurelius (Bob Bryant) is found petrified in the ground and unearthed by an excavator. He then rises up from […]

Apr, 16

The Mummy’s Curse ** (1944, Lon Chaney Jr, Peter Coe, Virginia Christine, Addison Richards, Kay Harding) – Classic Movie Review 3302

Director Leslie Goodwins serves up yet more Mummy mayhem, this time set in the swamps of Louisiana, in his acceptable 1944 Universal horror movie sequel, the fifth and last proper movie in the original Mummy saga […]

Jan, 29

The Mummy’s Ghost **½ (1944, Lon Chaney Jr, John Carradine, Robert Lowery, George Zucco, Ramsay Ames) – Classic Movie Review 3301

Lon Chaney Jnr reprises his role as Kharis the Mummy in this slightly tired but still entertaining sequel to The Mummy’s Tomb (1942), to which it is virtually identical, bar some of the elements of […]

Jan, 29

The Mummy’s Shroud *** (1967, André Morell, John Phillips, David Buck) – Classic Movie Review 3272

Eddie Powell plays the mummy of an Egyptian slave who is brought back to life in the England of 1920 in director John Gilling’s atmospheric 1967 Hammer horror – the third part of the series following […]

Jan, 29

The Mummy’s Hand *** (1940, Dick Foran, Wallace Ford, George Zucco, Cecil Kellaway, Peggy Moran, Tom Tyler, Eduardo Ciannelli) – Classic Movie Review 2816

‘The tomb of a thousand terrors!’ Director Christy Cabanne’s lusty 1940 American black-and-white horror sequel The Mummy’s Hand is only 67 minutes long but re-uses more than 10 minutes of footage from Universal Pictures’ The […]

Aug, 15

The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb ** (1964, Terence Morgan, Ronald Howard, Fred Clark, Jeanne Roland, Jack Gwillim, George Pastell, John Paul) – Classic Movie Review 2784

Producer-writer-director Michael Carreras’s 1964 Hammer horror The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb is the first sequel to their 1959 film The Mummy, takes place in 1900 five years after the original, and stars Terence Morgan […]

Aug, 05

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