1st watched 5/25/2009 - 4 out of 10 (Dir- Christy Cabanne): Better paced mummy movie but still the same storyline as the original mummy movie made eight years earlier. Boris Karloff is also no longer the mummy in this follow-up. The movie follows a kind of cheap Hope-Crosby duo as they try and uncover a princess's tomb. The same story is told thru the magical cauldron of the initial incident that entombed the mummy but they replace Karloff with the new actor. This is very lame, but maybe people didn't haven't memory back then??(just kidding)Anyway, there is the death to whomever opens the tomb when they finally find it, and of course they open it and the mummy is revived this time with the juice of tanna leaves. He starts his onslaught of killing mainly because of the placement of the juice by his master near those he wants him to kill. This juice gives him strength to survive and grow stronger, so it's definitely his master's manipulative diabolical plan to make him kill. Then there is, of course, a girl who gets in the way and the master wants to make her immortal with him(this seems also to be a running theme). This version of the story is more Hollywood-like but it doesn't make it any better. The monster is still pretty lame compared to the other Universal monsters but they still make 3 more early movies!! Whoo Hoo !! Maybe one of them is actually bearable to watch, maybe.
Review of The Mummy's Hand
