The Mummy's Curse [1944]

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review by: xyzzy date: 2005-12-28 rating:
My mummy�s back and you�re going to be in trouble
Yep, this time we have Louisiana Gypsies (oh! are those supposed to be Cajuns?). They are hired to drain the swamp. Yes the swamp containing Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) and his dirty girl, Princess Ananka (Virginia Christine.) Naturally no one believes the tale until someone ends up with knife in the back.

Poor Kharis is a bit slow; he is always in the process of killing whoever gets in his way, meanwhile the girl sneaks out each time. Will Kharis ever figure out that if he went for the girl first he just might get her?

Mean while back at the ranch or Castile or leftover church, Egyptian high priest, Dr. Ilzor Zandaab (Peter Coe) has other plans for the ancient love birds. His wicked assistant has plans of his own for the town cutie Betty Walsh (Kay Harding.)

They got a tad better than the last film "Mummy's Ghost"; yet it seems strange that a mummy that can tear down steel bars can not free his other arm. And why did they pack a lifetime supply of Tanna leaves with Kharis?


review by: darkgenius date: 2003-09-21 rating:
The mummy's on the loose and he's dancin' with the devil
Universal had pretty much milked the whole Kharis the mummy thing dry by the time this fourth and final Kharis movie was released in 1944. Even Lon Chaney doesn't seem to care a whole lot about the project as he slides and stumbles his plodding way through the swamps of Louisiana. It's really best not to question how Kharis and the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka wound up buried in a swamp in Cajun country; just accept it and go from there. Ananka, once she rises from the muck and gets herself cleaned off, is quite the dish this time around, although her whole schizophrenic, dual identity, amnesia thing can be a little off-putting. The beauty and doe-like eyes Virginia Christine brings to the role of Ananka helps explain why Kharis is still stubbornly pursuing her after more than three millennia. I mean this guy just won't give up, nor will he take no for an answer. Every time he approaches Ananka, she runs away screaming, yet he just bows his filthy bandaged head and starts the whole search over again. At least the supporting cast is pretty good. You can't help but like a guy called Cajun Joe - well, unless you're an ancient mummy, anyway. And then there is my favorite character, the wide-eyed Goobie (Napoleon Simpson) who runs around hollering "The mummy's on the loose and he's dancin' with the devil" every time something bad happens.

The plot of this particular quartet of mummy films was really starting to wear thin by this point. You've got two Egyptian mummies calling Louisiana home, then you've got this new high priest who has come over to find Kharis and keep giving him the old "three Tana leaves" juice that keeps him going. You can't even feel sorry for Kharis' millennia-old love problems anymore because Ananka clearly wants nothing to do with the filthy, tongue-less collection of dirty linen strips. The fact that the film runs for barely an hour is indicative of the fact that the magic was all but gone by this point; there comes a time when the same old same old begins to sound rather silly, and The Mummy's Curse comes close to crossing that line on several occasions.

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