31 Days of Horror Reviews 2018: The Mummy's Ghost

The Mummy’s Ghost is a boring rehash of the previous movie.

REVIEW

There’s really not much to say about The Mummy’s Ghost; it reuses plot points from the previous Kharis movies and the first half doesn’t seem to have any direction about where to go with the story. Once again, a young priest is charged to watch over the mummy, but this time his task is to return Kharis along with the tomb of Princess Ananka to Egypt now that the members of the original expedition are dead. But it turns out that the soul of Ananka has been reincarnated into a present day woman, similar to the plot of the original Mummy. From here, it’s the same thing as all the other movies. Her reincarnated form Amina (Ramsay Ames) is kidnapped by Kharis, the priest falls in love with her and wants to make them immortal, but is killed by Kharis this time. The mummy takes her away and an angry mob chases after them.

How the movie ends is worth mentioning however. With the previous Universal Monster Movies, the guy gets the girl in the end, but in this one: she dies! It turns out that Amina really was the reincarnation of Ananka and slowly begins turning into a mummy. In the Boris Karloff classic, it’s rather ambiguous if Helen really is the reincarnation of Anck-es-en-amon because of how hypnotic Ardath Bey/Imhotep is. The movie ends with Kharis and Mummy-Amina sinking to the bottom of a swamp.

Aside from the ending, there’s really nothing new that this movie brings to the franchise.