Official Score = 2 1/2 Devils[/caption]Before Ghostface, Before Pinhead, before Freddy, before Jason... Hell, even before Norman, the masters of horror were not what most of the time is now considered the standard in horror movie villain, as a matter of fact... They were a lot more Victorian... They were the monsters that were first made popular (with the exception of Dracula, who had been made popular in movie form as, 'Count Orlok' in F.W. Murnau's classic, Nosferatu eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922),) by, 'Universal Pictures' back in the 30s and 40s!
Personally, as a a serious horror fan, I have to admit that up until a few years ago (when I finally happen to be able to watch, Dracula (1931),) and I have to say that I was extremely impressed with how true to the original novel the cast and crew kept in that movie! And so I endeavored to eventually make a study of these movies... And the latest one I am proud to report having watched being, The Mummy's Curse (1944)!
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A classic![/caption]Written by: Bernard Schubert (Mark Of The Vampire), Leon Abrams (Sunset In El Dorado), Dwight V. Babcock (She-Wolf Of London), Oliver Drake (The Sky Dragon), Ted Richmond (Red Sun) & Directed by: Leslie Goodwins (My Favorite Martian). Starring: Lon Chaney Jr. (The Mummy's Tomb), Peter Coe (House Of Frankenstein), Virginia Christine (The Killers), Kay Harding (Weird Woman), Dennis Moore (Raiders Of Ghost City), Martin Kosleck (The Flesh Eaters), Kurt Katch (Watch On The Rhine), Addison Richards (Flying Tigers), & Napoleon Simpson (Jungle Queen).
This movie... Which as it turns out was the second sequel in this series of mummy movies that helped to cement Lon Chaney Jr. (High Noon), (like his father), as a trailblazing horror movie icon... Tells the story of how after the events of, The Mummy's Tomb (1944)...
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The small town residence are about to get a rude awakening![/caption]The year is 1995... Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) and the damage that he caused 25 years ago has begun to fade in to superstition... never the less, the people of the small Louisiana town are scared to go in to the Bayou regardless... And when things at a work camp that is working on an irrigation project at that Swamp start to go awry... Well that doesn't help!
But when Doctor's James Halsey (Dennis Moore) & Ilzor Zandaab (Peter Coe) show up in this small town to do, 'some excavation work' for a Museum... Things start to get really strange...
You see Dr. Zandaab and his assistant, 'Ragheb' (Martin Kosleck) have actually come to the small town, not just to dig up the mummy and his bride, but to also resurrect them and bring them back to Egypt...
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Zandaab & Ragheb with the mummy, as they start they're unholy quest![/caption]In the end, it will be up to Dr. Halsey, and the irrigation team to and stop Zandaab, his team, and the mummy he has resurrected, before the mummy can be reunited with his beloved!
In the end, this may have been the last time that Lon Chaney Jr. would don the role of, 'Kharis' (It turns out that he was not a huge
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