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The Mummy's Curse (1944) was a Horror - Film directed by Leslie Goodwins and produced by Ben Pivar.

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The Mummy’s Curse (1944, Leslie Goodwins)

The Mummy’s Curse feels like a Universal attempt at a Val Lewton picture. It’s from 1944, so Lewton’s modern horror pictures had already come out. It’s hard to believe Universal changed their approach to monster movies so radically between this picture and the previous Mummy ... Read full article


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The Mummy's Curse Quotes:

Princess Ananka: It's as though I were two different people. Sometimes it seems as if I belong to a different world. I find myself in strange surroundings with strange people. I cannot ever seem to find rest! And now Kharis!

Cajun Joe: I know the swamp like my finger.
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The Mummy's Curse Facts
Part of the SON OF SHOCK package of 21 titles released to television in 1958, which followed the original SHOCK THEATER release of 52 features one year earlier.

The famous sequence in which Princess Ananka (Virginia Christine) rises from the dead in the swamp is slightly undercranked - a process that speeds up the action - which gives an eerie, unreal quality to her movements. The trick is given away by the overly fast movements of the branches around her.

The Mummy was set in 1932, the year of its release. The first sequel, The Mummy's Hand is also chronologically coherent, set in 1940. The Mummy's Tomb takes place thirty years following the events of "Hand", with The Mummy's Ghost approximately two years after that. We learn that this movie is set an additional twenty five years after "Ghost", meaning that the events take place around 1997.

The mask worn by Lon Chaney Jr. in this film (and preserved by Bob Burns) is the only surviving example of Jack P. Pierce's makeup.

Released on a double bill with The House of Fear.

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