Smartorhypo
Highly Overrated But Still Good
Hattie
I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
Scarlet
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
James Hold
I keep reading complaints how the shift from New England to Louisiana is unexplained. It isn't. In the opening bits where the archaeologist talks with the authorities he tells how the priests moved the mummy to Louisiana 25 years ago. (It was perhaps the synopsis of an unfilmed sequel.) Anyhow the dialogue fully explains the shift in location and one needs only to listen to find out. Oh and Virginia Christine is absolutely gorgeous. I only wish they had given her more screen time.Also, Classicsoncall in his review says "We're signaled to the emergence of the Kharis legend by the first appearance of a dead body, but has anyone noticed that the laborer Antoine died with a knife in his back? Kharis always did his dirty work with his left hand, leaving bandage mold behind on the neck of his victims." This too is inaccurate. It was the priest's assistant who killed Antoine after they dug Kharis up. Again it's clearly stated in the dialogue. It's fine and dandy to criticize a movie for its shortcomings but the criticisms should be accurate. Stuff like that can turn off a potential viewer. If you're not going to pay attention to the dialogue then you really have no business submitting an inaccurate review.
TheLittleSongbird
Of the Universal Kharis Mummy films, the only one for me that came close to good was The Mummy's Hand, though that also had its uneven spots. The Mummy's Tomb, The Mummy's Ghost and The Mummy's Curse are watchable at least but also heavily flawed and uninspired, of which The Mummy's Curse fares the worst.The Mummy's Curse highlight is, agreed, the resurrection of Princess Ananka. It is a splendid, atmospheric scene that provides goose-bumps, and along with the ending of Ghost is the best scene of all the Universal Kharis Mummy films. It is sadly though the only great scene in the film, the only one to show any sense of care or directorial flair. Anne Codee makes a memorable appearance, and her Hey You number provided the film with a brief flicker of charm that the rest of the film was sorely lacking in. Of the cast(of which most of the cast were not very good), Virginia Christine comes out on top, she has an alluring appearance, and as well as making one's hairs stand up on their neck she is poignant too. Martin Kosleck is fun and menacing in his role, while Holmes Herbert is appropriately silky voiced. The sets are very atmospheric and there is some nice shadowy lighting, the camera work is the resurrection is most effective. And there is one amusing line, Goobie's 'The devil's alive and he's dancing with the mummy'.Lon Chaney Jnr sadly completely goes through the motions here, he at least had some intimidating moments in Tomb and Ghost but here it seemed as if he didn't care. He is disadvantaged by that Kharis here has very little screen time and whenever he does appear he has nothing to do, nothing that wasn't done before in the previous Kharis films anyhow. Peter Coe is also by far the worst high priest of all four films put together, he brings very little authority or sense of threat to the role and instead he's wooden. Napoleon Simpson provides some mostly unfunny and often embarrassing comic relief(apart from that one line) as the film's most stereotypical character, in a film where all the characters are stock and uncompelling, and Dennis Moore and Kay Harding, while an improvement on the leads from Ghost, are a little dull. The script on the most part is as lumbering as Kharis himself and all the humour falls flat. As with the previous three Kharis films the romance elements don't come off strongly either, feeling saccharine and underdeveloped.Princess Ananka's resurrection sequence and the Hey You number aside, The Mummy's Curse is slow-moving and dull with a lot of the storytelling feeling like an even blander retread of Ghost, the attacks and chases being especially repetitive. Unlike the previous three films, there is very little attempt at trying to do something different to before. The previous three films for all their problems had some campy fun and a little suspenseful atmosphere, plus Kharis also showed signs of being intimidating before, but again with the resurrection scene aside none of those can be found in Curse. The music doesn't sound bad at all by itself, it sounds quite haunting, but is very stock and doesn't always fit, a couple of placements sounded random. While the production values have their moments, some close-ups of Kharis don't look particularly good and the editing is shoddy, it was made virtually straight after Ghost(which was also made quickly, and looked it) and it really does show.In conclusion, the last of the Universal Kharis Mummy films and sadly it is also the weakest. Pretty weak a lot of the time, but thanks to the song, that one great sequence and a few performances it's watchable. 4/10 Bethany Cox
lon-smith1982
That is, final if you don't count Abbott and Costello. I have a new found respect for this movie after watching it again recently from the Mummy's Ghost/Mummy's Curse double feature DVD.Yes, I'm aware of all its inherit problems; the wildly outrageous continuity issues, the embarrassing ethnic stereotypes (particularly Goobie), Lon Chaney's apathetic performance as Kharis. Yet, in spite of or maybe because of those issues, I still find CURSE to be extremely enjoyable (even moreso than the previous installment).If you're willing to suspend your disbelief just a tad & accept the new Louisiana setting for this film, I think you may enjoy it that much more. I know it's not high art, but it's fun nonetheless and 60 minutes of your life you won't regret spending to watch this movie. Just my humble opinion.
utgard14
The final entry in the Kharis the mummy series is also the weakest, although still a good watch. At the end of the last film, Kharis and Ananka disappeared into the swamp. Decades later, the swamp is drained. For some reason, this film moves the location of the swamp from New England to Louisiana! So obviously somebody didn't think continuity was that big of an issue. Anyway, Kharis is revived by yet another Egyptian high priest (Peter Coe). Meanwhile, Ananka resurfaces from the mud and we discover she is played by Virginia Christine. Why Ramsay Ames didn't return to the role I'm not sure, but Christine does fine. Needless to say, Kharis is once again anxious to find his lost love. This was Lon Chaney Jr.'s last turn as the mummy. This one's got some marks against it but it's a fun movie. Nice atmosphere and some creepy moments. Universal horror fans like myself will like it most.
