Week #3: Mostly Mummies
Time Walker
1982
Tom Kennedy
Tom Kennedy
Professor Doug McCadden (Ben Murphy) is
bumbling around the tomb of King Tut. Thanks to an earthquake he
discovers a hidden chamber with a sarcophagus. He transports it back
to California, where a student (Kevin Brophy) X-raying the coffin
discovers there are crystals hidden inside. He stupidly steals them
and sells them off to some other students. The mummy (who turns out
to actually be an alien) does not take this lightly and rises to get
his crystals back. He accomplishes this mostly by murdering the
unfortunate kids who bought them.
Outside of the alien back story, there
really isn't anything all that different from a traditional mummy movie. The mummy lurches about (or in this case quietly floats) after
its victims, who spend most of the movie completely oblivious to the fact
anything weird is going on. The mummy is confined to POV shots and
an unfortunate reveal of it's alien form. It's pretty much a bloodless affair, but there is a little bit of
gross-out slime, thanks to some infectious fungus the mummy has on it.
Most of the college students range from bland targets to annoying jerks
whom you can't wait to see on the receiving end of a space mummy. The movie is too slow and short on actual scares, and it takes itself far too seriously. Despite an overwhelming number of flaws, I actually enjoyed the film. Perhaps after sitting through a Jerry Warren movie
the day before, anything would look good.
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