The Mummy's Tomb (1942)

Thirty years after a group of archaeologists discovered and entered the tomb of an Egyptian princess, a mummy (Lon Chaney Jr.) is revived and sent to the U.S. along with his protector (Turhan Bey) to seek vengeance on the surviving expedition members and their spawn. The third film in the Universal Mummy franchise following THE MUMMY (1932) and THE MUMMY'S HAND (1940) and directed by Harold Young. Watching this, I kept thinking "Haven't I seen this already?" and yes because its plot has been more or less recycled in just about every Mummy movie. This one is only an hour long yet ten minutes are spent on flashbacks of THE MUMMY'S HAND for exposition. Although HAND was released only two years before TOMB, this entry begins thirty years later so we get the stars of HAND (Dick Foran, Wallace Ford, George Zucco) in old age make up. The movie is slapdash without much thought going into it. For example, when the mummy kidnaps Elyse Knox and is cornered on a balcony, the townspeople start throwing lit torches at him to set him and/or his surrounding on fire. Excuse me but what about the girl, don't the townspeople want to save her or do they care if she burns in the fire too? But this is the kind of mindless horror where it's best not to actually think about what's going on. With John Hubbard, Mary Gordon, Cliff Clark and Virginia Brissac.