The Mummy's Tomb

The Mummy's Tomb is the 1942 sequel to The Mummy's Hand (1940). The film begins with a long recap of what happened in The Mummy's Hand as told by Stephen Banning, the hero of the first film now an old man. The film features many scenes from the last "mummy" film to tell the story. After the recap Banning, the man who found the Ananka tomb 30 years before, is killed in his own house in New England by the mummy after a high priest has vowed revenge... more

The Mummy's Tomb is the 1942 sequel to The Mummy's Hand (1940). The film begins with a long recap of what happened in The Mummy's Hand as told by Stephen Banning, the hero of the first film now an old man. The film features many scenes from the last "mummy" film to tell the story. After the recap Banning, the man who found the Ananka tomb 30 years before, is killed in his own house in New England by the mummy after a high priest has vowed revenge on the men who entered the tomb years before. Banning's old partner, 'Babe' Hanson, is also targeted. As the Banning family is killed off one by one, the high priest (Turhan Bey) decides to take a young woman as his bride instead of killing her. He orders the mummy to kidnap the woman. Angry villagers, led by Banning's son, hunt down the monster and again burn it to death. Critical reviews of the film are mostly negative. Film critics felt the movie failed to live up to the standards of other Universal horror films. less