The Mummy's Hand

The comedy in this movie ruined any chances of suspense. All the best parts were shown in the intro of the Mummy's Tomb.

An hour runtime that wastes the first 10 minutes rebooting Karloff's Mummy and the next 20 on the sub-Abbott & Costello routines of Foran and Ford before finally getting in some decent mummy action.

What the hell happened between the first film & this one? I've seen several Universal monster movies & never have I seen such a major shift in tone w/ the horror elements almost taking a backseat to the comedy. Presumably this was the template for the Fraser movies. It's watchable enough b/c it's light & short, but the mummy himself is a big come down - much less impressive makeup & he's nothing more than a henchman. & one requiring a potion to be tiresomely moved around for every new kill.

An unneeded and hokey addition to "The Mummy" series, and while it's not intended, it does provide a few laughs.

Fun movie. Not very much like Karloff's mummy picture; instead it's more like an unusually well-done serial

Story of the mummy gets re-imagined in this film from the second wave of Universal studios horror films. It's is more of an adventure film than horror, and comedy is kind of silly. Mummy isn't a vengeful monster, but just a tool for evil people.

Somehow, even with the replicates of Abbot & Costello leading the search, the next Mummy flick is much funnier. Probably cause it relies on a camp sense rather than gags. And with the next one also giving a lengthy summary of what's here, I can't think of any reason to care about this.

It takes a while to get going, but it's a pretty good adventure film. The new Mummy makeup is really eerie.

Improving on the 1932 film but still confined to B-movie status by the writing, direction and acting, this pleasant reboot takes its time to establish the characters, relegates the Mummy's objectively weak backstory to a setup instead of a reveal (and, disappointingly, the creature itself to an unskillful henchman), has very good make-up, brings out the comedy (with mixed results) and has a promising format reminiscent of the 1999 movie or even Indiana Jones, whom this film apparently inspired.

Zucco is unsung as always with this by the book yet enjoyable take on mummies. The love story is fairly restrained and Cecil Kellaway adds an unexpected balance of tone between drama and levity that helps round out the film.

more entertaining than the original, which was like watching paint dry, but the comedy could have been turned down a notch

yuck

Alright

*Stirs awake* this is the movie people point to when they say mummy movies are dull and silly. Hammer Studios had better mummy movies anyways.

68.000

First of the Kharis series is a fun, splashy rethinking of the original, not a sequel. Western and serial star Tom Tyler is wasted in non-speaking role, but Cecil Kellaway and Peggy Moran add a lot of life as an itinerant magician and his daughter. Best of the Kharis movies by a long pinch. Watch for shots of Tyler inserted into flashback footage featuring Karloff.

A Mão da Múmia estreava há 80 anos nos EUA. São poucas essas sequências dos grandes monstros da Universal dos anos 30 que ficaram para a posteridade, essa certamente não é uma delas. BlurayRip YTS.

Passes the time.

Classic schlocky fun

The Mummy's Hand (1940) is haunting throw-away horror from Universal Pictures. Meaning nice creepy parts and a lot of humbug, not giving the story the care it needs to become one of Universal's legendary monster films. Good fun though, and the mummy did look scary!

By 1940, the whole Universal Horror thing was pretty much played out. Ford is insufferable.

A marvellous companion piece for Universal's Horror Island, which also starred Foran and Moran, who I wish had gone on to make another ten movies together just like them.