The Mummy’s Tomb is better than its predecessor, without a doubt. Harold Young’s direction is strong. It’s not quite scary, but he’s at least going for scary.
It’s sort of like an episode of “Cheers;” it takes place in small town Massachusetts and there’s a mummy roaming the streets. You can see the “Cheers” gang, having headed […]
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The Mummy’s Hand (1940, Christy Cabanne)
June 7th, 2009 · No Comments
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen this film.
There’s no discernible reason for it to be called The Mummy’s Hand. I can only guess it has to do with the way they cut the trailer, maybe having the hand come out as a shocker.
It’s not a traditional Universal horror film; it’s one of the first […]
Tagged: Christy Cabanne· Griffin Jay· Maxwell Shane· Universal Pictures· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
The Return of the Vampire (1944, Lew Landers)
February 14th, 2007 · No Comments
The Universal monster movies notably ignored modern events–when World War II came around, the clocks turned back on all their European-set monster movies to some indistinguishable point. The Return of the Vampire, a Columbia cheapie, on the other hand, sets the events directly in contemporary settings, both after the First World War and during the […]
Tagged: Bela Lugosi· Columbia Pictures· Griffin Jay· Lew Landers· Randall Faye· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
