We take a look at ViaVision’s Universal Mummy collection.
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Summary:
The Mummy: A resurrected Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he believes to be his long-lost princess.
The Mummy’s Hand: Archaeologists defile the tomb of mummified Kharis, who was buried alive for falling in love with an Egyptian princess.
The Mummy’s Tomb: A high priest travels to America with a living mummy to kill those who had desecrated the tomb of an Egyptian princess thirty years earlier.
The Mummy’s Ghost: Kharis the mummy is given a sacred potion that grants him eternal life to search for his lost love, Princess Ananka, despite the unending curse that haunts them.
The Mummy’s Curse: An irrigation project in the rural bayous of Louisiana unearths living mummy Kharis, who was buried in quicksand twenty-five years earlier.
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Before the Terminator came the relentless but slow Mummy
Great review!! I prefer the Commentary with Haberman and Rick Baker for The Mummy 1932 because they arent stating the obvious like in the first commentary and they are more entertaining!
My friends and I want to shoot our own Mummy movie based on the idea that Im-ho-tep has been resurrected as a guy who searches for his long lost love the Princess in the vintage car he has restored. We want to call it The Mummy's 1962 Buick Skylark.
Where are the Brendan Fraser ones?
You had me at Tom Weaver!
The Mummy's Tomb is dear to my heart. I love the Mummy's look in this movie: The sunken eye looks actually sunken, The fire damaged hand missing fingers. The shadows in this film shows how gorgeous black and white movies can be. The constant breeze through the trees – it's all so atmospheric. It was also featured in the first Famous Monsters magazine I saw (and begged my parents to buy for me.)
I promise, I'm not trying to be combative. I completely understand Chaney's appeal in cinema. I never understood Chaney Jr's appeal. I feel he hampers any movie he's in. Is someone an enthusiast who has an answer? Thank you, sincerely. 🖤
Wouldn't "the least of Universal's [monster] franchises" be the "Captive Wild Woman" series? They all look like very hastily made B movies.
I love the 1932 film, and like The Mummy's Hand, which works as a stand alone picture. The sequels to Hand I care little for, since the producer Ben Pivar and the writers threw away any sense of continuity.
Great video, and agree with your assessment about the movies – the 1st (1932) film is a strange, haunting, and memorable work, while the other 4 from the 1940s are fun time-fillers, very much in a kiddie-Saturday-matinee mode (bring the popcorn). I would also add Zita Johann's lovely performance in the 1932 film, to which she brings such an eerie, yet yearning tone to the drama; while Virginia Christine's entrance in The Mummy's Curse–in which she crawls out of some very wet and unpleasant-looking muck, and then has to stagger about for several minutes plastered with what looks like mud and soggy oatmeal–is certainly a highlight of the series!
The '32 Mummy is my favorite of the Universal monster movies.
It is still chilling when they focus on the face of Im Ho Tep. It's hard to look at, still.
Thank you
Great and useful review 👍
I love these movies!
Are these vids monetized? Or no, because of using the clips?
The Mummy always scared me more than any other Universal monsters 🙂
it might have been left alone but they had a property sitting unused so made sequels that you didn’t have to see at all
it’s the least tainted by them and the one with the best remake by Universal- the Frasier one, not the Cruise one
I have pretty much all the old Universal Horror flicks on the Legacy collections, except for Invisible Man (love the box art for the collections). I think all except Creature are Blu-ray. It took a good while viewing them once a week with my dad for our weekly dinner-and-film but we got through all of them (including Abbott and Costello Mummy/Frankenstein) and I feel it was absolutely worth it (although yes, certain films are clearly not very good, special condemnation to Revenge of the Creature).
This franchise did get a bit predictable/cliched, outright formulaic but at times it was impressive and enjoyable. The surprisingly dark ending of Mummy's Ghost and the incredible resurrection in Curse, those will stick with me for years to come…as will the appalling choice of using endless flashbacks to make up what feels like the entire first half of Tomb. I swear this is when I also started to notice George Zucco dying in a bunch of films I watch him in (aside from Midnight Manhunt, I think).
I really should give a couple of them a watch again one day this coming year.
The Mummys Quest book by Robin is excellent and sets the stage for the mini universe of six books.
Karloff? Sidekick?
This third party licensed out import release may very well be an indication that we may get the legacy collections on 4K very soon. The American legacy collection is better than this, because it contains all of these films plus Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy. Although this set does have new commentary tracks. I’m sure the commentary tracks on this set will be ported over to an officially produced Universal Studios released legacy collection on 4K soon. I’ll wait for that.
Though I must admit that aesthetically, this is a nice box set.
Zita Johann, uninspiring in another film, is the equal of Karloff. His role and BOTH makeups…impossible to do better. Byron, the omnipresent/ubiquitous Sloan, and the brief spot of Manners…simply the best supernatural horror…Invisible Man is science fantasy….until Dead of Night, The Uninvited, The Haunting…which totaled me at age ten, early 60s. Like Time Machine, made me read book, parents' library, same night. >> Tyler's blacked out eyes, advancing on camera…worth the price of transmission. Admission, good on yah, mate. danke, tak vere,
The 1st is probably my favourite universal horror
That photo of Karloff in make up, having tea . . .was something I needed to see. Cheers Dark Corner!☕
I'm convinced that the name Kharis is a callback to the original actor: It takes the first syllable from Karloff and the second from Boris.
The Mummy has long been my favorite of the Classic Universal Monster series, and I prefer the Kharis cycle to the Karloff original. First off, I find Kharis' backstory oddly romantic, this priest forsaking his vows to try to revive the princess he loves, failing, and having his tongue cut out "so that he may not pester the gods with his pleas for mercy." I think The Mummy's Tomb may be the first horror movie where the monster comes back and kills the heroes from the previous movie, decades before Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street did it, plus there's the fact that the villain of The Mummy's Hand not only manages to kill the surviving heroes, but outlives them all by several movies. My favorite of the original Mummy series is The Mummy's Hand, and my favorite Lon Chaney Mummy movie is The Mummy's Tomb.
I agree with you on The Mummy's Ghost… not the type of ending I was expecting.
I've seen The Mummy starring Boris Karloff Then the Brendon Frazier 3 and,,, well that is it.
Have you covered Deathline? Raw Meat in USA.. saw this as a student and never forgot it.. Donald Pleasance and Norman Rossington as cops and a Karloff-class performance from Hugh Armstrong as ‘The Man’. ‘Mind the doors..’
Blu ray you say? I'm quite sure I must own this, thank you.
In my opinion the mummy IS the underrated classic of the universal horror's, the music, the camera work. the story, the makeup. Everything you could ask for in an early 30's horror is perfected in this movie.
The universal mummy is my third favorite of all the monsters from the old classic era.
I'm not a fan of the Chaney mummy movies. They're ok, but the 1932 original holds a special place in my heart. It's one of the first Mummy movies I remember watching on tv when I was a kid.
What sound am I hearing at 4:01? Sounds like someone offscreen saying "doot!"
Thank You for the look ahead on the Blu-ray Mummy Collection. I had hoped when they resold the Mummy in Blu-Ray they would have had Greg Mank or Tom Weaver do one of their interesting commentarys for the original Mummy.
Great collection, even if I bought the last Mummy blu-ray set some years ago.
It looks like the first disk (with the Karloff film) is identical to that released by Universal, but the sequels all have what promise to be fantastic commentaries (which Universal didn't have to my regret). I always enjoyed Tom Weaver's sense of humor on his commentaries. I'm definitely getting THIS collection! Thanks for posting, Robin!
Definitely, the 1932 film is still the best of ANY of the Mummy films, Universal or no, because, well, it's Karloff under the bandages, and it's the only film to focus on an unwrapped creature (unless you count the last Hammer Mummy film, Blood from the Mummy's Tomb). The 1932 Mummy is the only one I can really watch again and again – the others are just pointless. The Universal Kharis films could have been about a zombie or a ghoul for all that they care about Egyptian mythology, and the Abbott & Costello film had so many FAKE mummies that the "real" one looks worse by comparison. Even A&C were tired of their own shtick by that time.
I do enjoy the original Mexican Aztec Mummy trilogy from the 1950s, despite its total repetitiveness, because the films are just SO very goofy. You just can NOT take those films seriously, and they're fun because of that. MST3K riffed the last one (Robot vs the Aztec Mummy), which I still think is one of their funniest episodes. There IS a collection from VCI of the Aztec Mummy films out there, but for some reason, it omits the original film and includes Wrestling Women vs the Aztec Mummy, which is entirely unconnected with the first trilogy. But then, 50% of the two sequels comprise recaps from the first film, so probably you're not missing much.
And I absolutely hate the modern day Mummy films because there the creature was so much more a force of nature that you could drop what little Egyptian motifs there were (and I can't even remember that there WERE any in the first place) and nothing would change.
I still do not understand why the mummy in the Tom Cruise film has two eyeballs in each socket, but then Cruise insisted that he be on camera more than the monster, which kinda destroyed any balance — or explanation — there could have been. I don't even understand what happened in the danged film!
The least of Universal's franchises? The Paula, the Ape Woman trilogy. Ignored and unmentioned in retrospectives, no model kits or action figures, no franchise DVD collection, I don't think the Crestwood books even acknowledged those anywhere. I read every monster book the school library and three others had and was oblivious to the Ape Woman series until Captive Wild Woman was released on DVD.
Thank you
Never liked the Mummy sequels, but 1932's The Mummy is great. I love that movie! It's right up there with Frankenstein.
The mummy series is better, certainly more entertaining, to me than the invisible man and Dracula franchises. Except for the original, the invisible man sequels were a little dull, and I never found the atmosphere of any of the draculas all that great, including the original, excluding Mr lugosi’s performance. I wish they would have found a way to squeeze the mummy into the house of series.
Neat art on the discs. My set from the 2018 release is all basic black.
As always, thank you!🙏👌👻❤️
The problem with the Mummy is the name. Dracula! Frankenstein! Great names great titles, the Mummy too close to mommy.