1944’s THE MUMMY’S GHOST,
directed by Reginald Le Borg, is the 4th in the MUMMY series
and continues the trend of not being a very good sequel. I do think it is a
step up from the last one, though, if only because it has a unique setting: a
college. They should have called it BIG MUMMY ON CAMPUS.
Chaney returns as the
Mummy and is wasted in the role again, this time under the control of his
Egyptian master (John Carradine, a better than usual co-star for these flicks).
A college student of Egyptian descent (Ramsay Ames) lures the dubious duo with
the possibility that she might be the reincarnation of the Mummy’s ancient
love, Princess Ananka.
The ending is a little
more satisfying this time around, since you have an ancient love triangle at
play that leads to a tragic “end” for our Mummy anti-hero and his prize. Now
with the two Mummy movies of this Horrorfest and the two covered in previous
Horrorfests, every Mummy flick EXCEPT the best one (the original) has been
written about here.
I guess one of these
years I should do a bunch of movies I’ve already seen.
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