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athena14044 · 1 year ago

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Here’s my Mummy movie ranking bc I didn’t watch 6 movies in a painkiller induced haze for no reason:

1. The Mummy (1932) - a little slow and I had a hard time focusing due to aforementioned pain killer induced haze but Boris Karloff slayed and it’s the only one with a unique concept which ig I can’t really complain about in a franchise like this but omg all the others feel like a worse rehash of something else not even necessarily of the original mummy

2. The Mummy’s Tomb - something about changing the setting to rural Massachusetts worked for me? It’s set in 1970 but makes no attempt to look like anything other than the 40s. If I had to choose one to remake it would be this one which probably isn’t good bc the revenge plot only works as a sequel but it literally just spent the first 10 minutes recapping Hand anyway so.

3. The Mummy’s Ghost - little dog named Peanuts <3 also kind of a bizarre iconic ending

4. The Mummy’s Hand - discount Abbott and Costello but also somehow funnier than the actual Abbott and Costello Mummy movie

5. The Mummy’s Curse - my only guess is that the only information given to the screenwriter was that the last movie ended with the Mummy walking into a swamp and bestie assumed all swamps are in Louisiana. Why is this set in a swamp in Louisiana.

6. Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy - I really believed in this but too many bad musical sequences not enough mummy :( the only genuine laugh it got from me was bc of the giant iguana

#here’s like half of a coherent thought:#the mummy is the one universal monster that is completely trapped behind makeup and it’s more difficult to give a good performance and #therefore a good movie #like Frankenstein has heavy makeup but the actor can still emote and the creature can still speak even when he’s dumbed down #kharis can’t even speak! they cut out his tongue! so he’s reduced to shuffling around #and the Wolfman also has heavy makeup but there’s a transformation and he’s not in it for the whole movie #the invisible man doesn’t have his face shown but he can speak and that’s where his performance comes from #the first mummy movie works bc it gets Boris Karloff out of the mummy makeup and actually able to give a performance #the character that should be the draw or the big performance if the mummy can’t talk or emote should be the person commanding the mummy #but the rest of the movies treat the mummy as the draw ‘it’s Lon Chaney jr!’ and the mummy’s master or whatever is an afterthought #the whole love story thing doesn’t work either bc the mummy’s master just commands him around which is especially egregious in curse #but it works in the original bc you can see him. there is a moment in I think it was tomb? where it sort of works too #where the mummy lashes out and breaks a museum exhibit after the body of the princess crumpled bc she’s been reincarnated #like that was the only time in the kharis mummy movies that I actually felt like the mummy had a want or opinion #actually it might have been ghost. I can’t remember.#the mummy #universal monsters

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