The Mummy's Tomb (1942)

Directed by

Harold Young

Genre

horror film, science fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 01m

Rated

12

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 84 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An elderly mummy priest named Andoheb survives and plans revenge on the man who defeated him 30 years earlier. He sends the mummy Kharis to kill the man and his family in a small Massachusetts town. The man's son must find a way to stop the ancient evil.

creepyvengefulslowatmosphericdatedpredictablegothicominous

What happens

The Mummy's Tomb is a 1942 American horror film directed by Harold Young and starring Lon Chaney Jr. as Kharis the mummy. Taking place 30 years after the events of The Mummy's Hand, where Andoheb (George Zucco) has survived and plans revenge on Stephen Banning (Dick Foran) and his entire family in Mapleton, Massachusetts. With the help of Andoheb and the mummy Kharis, the high priest Mehemet Bey (Turhan Bey) takes a job as a caretaker of a graveyard. At the first full moon, the mummy is fed tanna leaves which allow him to break into the Banning residence and kill the now elderly Stephen. Stephen's son then seeks assistance from Babe Hanson (Wallace Ford), one of the members of the original Banning expedition to Egypt to stop Andoheb and Kharis. Lon Chaney Jr. had renewed his contract with Universal Pictures in 1942 and had his first role as the mummy Kharis in The Mummy's Tomb, a role he would reprise in the film's sequels The Mummy's Ghost and The Mummy's Curse. The film was shot between June 1 through mid-June 1942, not including footage taken from the previous film in the series The Mummy's Hand as well as Frankenstein. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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