What did Bram Stoker do after his success with Dracula? He wrote more books, obviously. Did I ever think of that? No.
It's fairly obvious that a successful author would keep writing, and a horror novelist would keep writing horror, but why would I assume he would I dunno, keep on Dracula? Of course he would branch out. I just didn't expect it to be one of the other Universal Monster type guys.
The Legend of the Mummy book was actually called The Jewel of the Seven Stars. Now it obviously came before the movies, but I wonder if he partly responsible for The Mummy as we know it? Did he popularize both? And if so how come Dracula as a title is so good and this book is so bad?
This movie employs evil cats and evil gems just like The Cat Creature and holy crap if this feels of the same era as well except for Louis Gossett Jr being in this thing. According to some rich old guy with a bunch of artifacts nothing in his study was to be moved. It was full of Egyptian shit and naturally someone moved something which caused the mummy to come to life.
The mummy in this looks really good and there are absolutely not enough shots of it doing cool shit. Instead it seems to inhabit others to do its will, making them act like theyre being attacked and dying from an unseen attacker. Another thing that dates this? The neighbor from Home Improvement is in it.
This movie feels like it would have a guy from Home Improvement in it. Its not that bad but it's really not very good except for the last 20 minutes or so. I give it a 2.5
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