The Mummy's Ghost
The Mummy’s Ghost was released in early 1944 and let me tell you this movie freaks me out. Its only an hour, it still takes a little time to rehash the other movies, the acting is stilted, there is a cute little dog, but still this is the one Mummy movie that really disturbs me.
To get down to it, not a lot of time has past in dear old New England where the Mummy in the previous movie relocated to take vengeance on the people who invaded his and his lady friends tomb in the movie previous to that. Another Egyptian high priest comes to town to take the Mummy and the mummy of his love back to Egypt. There is one snag when they try to steal the body of Mummy Kharis’s love Princess Anonkah out of the museum her soul gets reincarnated in local Egyptian dame Kay Harding. What to do? I know kidnap and kill her so Anokah’s soul can be at rest. But of course just when Kharis and the high priest are about to, the priest has second thoughts of making him and her immortal so they can be in love forever and ever. He really thinks about it, so much so that you can hear his thoughts, and he talks back to his thoughts. Really powerful stuff. (played by darkend John Carradine….yay John Carradine…you always know when a franchise is going down hill because he pops up somewhere) Anyway these priests of Akham really need to get laid before they take on the position because this always happens!
What’s really freaky, is unlike the other Universal Horror movies, this one the Mummy actually gets his bride. He throws bozo the priest out a window and drags Kay Harding to the swamp. We see the lady’s body decay into that of a corpse, and finally in one last freaky love fest, both the newly fresh corpse and her love Mummy Kharis sink to the bottom of the swamp. It is such a freaky ending! Its like Flowers In The Attic freaky! I guess they knew later that year they would pick up this plot thread in the last Mummy movie (and somehow move the whole thing to New Orleans) but as it stands this movie even though flat at parts, is disturbing.