The Mummy's Curse

The American film The Mummy's Curse literally fits into a series about mummies. This is because it doesn't really stand out in any significant way. Lon Chaney Jr. tries to at least make his role entertaining, to make it have some basic character. There are a few pretty good scenes, a couple of special effects scenes, but all together it doesn't pull the film up to more than average anyway. The Mummy is simply the weakest monster. (2019.02.21)

A lazy sequel, methinks. The producers milked the original success of The Mummy to the last drop, this is the fourth and final sequel, and thankfully it all comes to a close. At least it has a hint of charisma, it was shot mostly on location, so the swampy landscape does look like a swamp and the hidden abandoned place with the sarcophagus looks quite nice, too, but otherwise it's a repeat of "revenge motif #5”, the same thing the fifth time, the only difference in this case is that the originator of the evil is some mujahideen with a fez on his head. Lon Chaney, the star and the only name on the poster, has no room to showcase any of his acting skills. The whole film over-hyped from head to toe, the mummy always flashes for half a minute, extends its claw, kills someone and disappears again. At least he’s nicely dusty, like a real mummy :o) The laziness of the creators lies not only in the script, but in such details as the character of Princess Ananka, who digs herself out of the mud, all dirty, gets into a puddle and a minute later is beautiful, clean, with blown-out hair. And then there’s that five-minute flashback, AGAIN borrowed in its entirety from the original film, and again repeated in its entirety, without a shred of change. That’s how you inflate a runtime. :) (2021.09.27)