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For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Copyright 19 August 1942 by Universal Pictures Co., Inc. New York opening at the Rialto: 25 October 1942. U.S. release: 23 October 1942. Australian release: 11 March 1943. 6 reels. 5,515 feet. 61 minutes.NOTES: Number three of the seven "Mummy" pictures.COMMENT: Yet another variation on The Mummy with sequences at the beginning ineptly paralleling those of the original. Inter-cutting with wipes back and forth from past to present effectively dissipates what little suspense has been built up. Still, Chaney's mummy is mildly effective and there's a fair climax in a blazing house.Foran is killed off rather early in the piece and - aside from one or two cameos like Frank Reicher's knows-his-stuff scientist, - the cast is second-rate with the "B"-grade shuffle much in evidence and a tight budget witnessed by the fact that Miss Knox is required to wear the same dress in two scenes that were obviously lensed on the same day. Mr Bey with all his chatter about the priests of Isis is a bore, as is Mr Hubbard and Mary Gordon. Miss Knox is fairly pretty but colorless. Despite a few striking compositions and effectively atmospheric touches, the direction generally varies from the routine to the inept and the dialogue is often as fatuous as the plot. Characterization is non-existent. Credits are no more than serviceable and production values are not much above the average "B".

This is a sequel to The Mummy's hand. It is scarier then The Mummy's hand and that is not easy to do. The Mummy's ghost is scarier. The Mummy cures is also scarier. This is a horror classic. 5.8 is a good ratting. But this such a great movie 5.8 is underrating it. This is a 9. It has great acting. It also has a great story line. It also has great special effects. If this movie does not scary you no movie will. This is scarier then The Shining and that is not easy to do. This is scarier then A Nightmare on elm street and that is not easy to do. This is scarier then Friday the 13th and that is not easy to do. Harold Young is a great film maker. This is one of the his best movies. See it.

After a brief retelling of the previous movie ("The Mummy's Hand") it is now 30 years later and "Stephen Banning" (Dick Foran) is telling some relatives of his adventures in Egypt. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, we find that both the mummy, "Kharis" (Lon Chaney Jr.) and the High Priest of Karnak, "Andoheb" (George Zucco) managed to survive. However, Andoheb is old and frail and he chooses a new person named "Mehemet Bey" (Turhan Bey) to succeed him upon his death. When that happens Turhan Bey decides to exact vengeance upon those who dared to commit sacrilege to the ancient Egyptian gods. This vengeance also extends to any family members as well. Anyway, rather than revealing what happens next I will just say that this was an okay sequel to the previous film. Unfortunately, the short length of the film (only an hour) prevented it from achieving anything noteworthy or remarkable. As such I rate it as average.

As Dick Foran and Wallace Ford put the torch to Kharis the Mummy in The Mummy's Hand there's no way that Universal Pictures was thinking about a sequel. Otherwise they would have made sure to identify the fact that the action was taking place in 1912 and had everyone wear costumes of the period.So it looks a little ridiculous to have Dick Foran and Wallace Ford now elderly beginning The Mummy's Tomb made up as elderly gents with Foran reminiscing about those days on that dig in Egypt where he bested the cult of Kharis and Princess Ananka and brought back the Princess Ananka's mummy with the treasures of her tomb. The first 10 to 12 minutes of this film is a flashback synopsis of the previous film.But it turns out that Wallace Ford didn't really kill George Zucco with those bullets fired at point blank range. George has been waiting for 30 years, but he and the cult want some payback. Kharis survived too and Zucco before he dies turns him over to a new handler in Turhan Bey. They've even got a cover story with Bey getting a job as cemetery worker, the better to bring Kharis over from Egypt.The Mummy's Tomb takes the unusual step of having Kharis kill the heroes of the previous film. But Foran left a grown son in John Hubbard who has taken up the fight against the undead. And Bey deviates from the mission because he's decided he wants Hubbard's intended bride Elysse Knox all for himself and he sends Kharis out to arrange it in his inimitable fashion.I think you see where this one is going, but Universal did this one in their usual Gothic horror style. But The Mummy's Tomb is not as good as its predecessor and none of those films involving Kharis are anything approaching light years as good as Boris Karloff in the original The Mummy. Universal did not do as good as it did with Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Wolfman.Mummy films are the runt of Universal's litter.