Monster of the Day #1343

Updated on April 25, 2016 By Ken Begg 32 Comments

Finally MKA was done, and we moved onto one of the Fest’s two movies that inspired Sandy’s love of fantastic cinema as a kid. Sandy clearly loves oddball mummy movies (Curse of the Faceless Man is another such flick), and this one, featuring a were-mummy (really) proved one of those nice, solid programmers whose main strength was its nicely abbreviated running time.

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  • Gamera977

    Were-mummy?!? So he turns into an ancient undead on the full moon???

  • KeithB

    He looks like Christopher Walken does now.

  • bgbear_rnh

    Were-mummy?

    Sound like a little English boy lost in a crowd.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I could swear I recognize this from somewhere. Maybe some old, old issue of Famous Monsters of Filmland?

  • Eric Hinkle

    “Were-mummy?”

    “There, mummy! There, pyramid!”

  • Ericb

    [insert mother-in-law joke here]

  • Gamera977

    Mummy-in-law???

    Sorry, someone would have said it sooner or later…..

  • Now see, I would have called it a Vampire/Mummy movie, especially since (as I recall) once this guy changes he stays changed. The blood sucking also seems to point that way

    Anyway, for its faults, it isn’t that bad of a way to spend an hour or so.

  • Gamera977

    A little off topic but I’ve been on a bit of a ‘In Search Of’ kick watching the episodes in order on YouTube. Well, in the episode ‘UFO Coverups’ they recreate the alleged Roswell Incident using a replica of the Jupiter II from ‘Lost in Space’ as the flying saucer!
    It’s one of those things were you sitting there thinking ‘Is that what I think it is?? OMG! It is the Jupiter II!!!!’ So now we know the real mastermind behind the Roswell Incident was Doctor Smith!

  • Somehow I think the Roswell Incident worked out entirely too well to be a Doctor Smith plan. ;-)

  • Flangepart

    Unless Smith did have a plan,and Murphy’s Law took over from there…a frequent occurance, IRRC.

  • Ericb

    Towards the end they ran out of things to search for and were running shows “in search” of things like hurricanes and the Dust Bowl. Interesting topics for sure but hardly all that mysterious.

  • bgbear_rnh

    Who said it is off topic? I am sure if you look into the windows of the Jupiter II you could see Billy Mummy.

  • Gamera977

    Oddly, I’ve found some of the ‘real stuff’ episodes the more interesting ones. Nimoy played Vincent van Gogh’s brother in a movie and in that episode he really gets emotionally involved in trying to argue that the artist wasn’t crazy.
    The Roswell one is interesting in that I believe Project Mogul and Highjump hadn’t been declassified at the time so we didn’t know the truth behind the incident. And in 1979 many of the people involved were still alive so they did a number of interviews. But the big highlight for me was the Jupiter II, no attempt was made to disguise what it was at all- it’s just plopped down there big as life. Too bad they didn’t use the Enterprise’s shuttlecraft, I’d have loved to see Nimoy trying to keep a straight face at that.

  • SteveWD

    Oh man I love ‘In Search Of’, the great-granddaddy of all ooga-booga mystery type shows. I actually got the dvd box set a few years ago, really wished they had been able to include some new interviews with Nimoy on it. What’s weird is that I can’t stand the modern day equivalents like ‘Ancient Aliens’ or ‘Finding Bigfoot’. Those shows just make my brain hurt.

  • Ericb

    Especially when they are shown on the so called “History Channel”.

  • Eric Hinkle

    If you want some quality Roswell fun, check out the collected ‘The Fighting American’, a Jack Kirby and Joe Simon comic available through B&N books. They have a story where the hero and his sidekick face off with the Roswell alien, who is kind of like the FF’s Impossible Man in this one. It’s made even better by the fact that they don’t even mention Roswell, but anyone with a knowledge of the old UFOlogy scene gets it immediately. I have to wonder where Kirby and Simon heard about Roswell — it was mentioned in Frank Scully’s 1950 book ‘Behind the Flying Saucers’, but after that it vanished from sight for 25 years.

  • Gamera977

    Really? Ancient Aliens is the funniest comedy series I’ve seen in years!

  • SteveWD

    I can take it in short doses, but after about 10 or 15 minutes it usually just starts making me mad.

    The show, and the Ancient Aliens concept itself is based on prefacing everything with ‘Is it possible?’. If you start an argument with that phrase, then you’re free to get as ridiculous as you want and no one can really argue with you. Is it possible?…..well, yes. It may be 99.9999999…..% unlikely, but it is possible.

    Another thing that has always bothered me about the Ancient Aliens thing is the inherent, racism is a bit harsh…, I’ll go with Euro-centrism in the concept. Stonehenge, Roman engineering, Greek engineering, that’s all normal, but the second a “primitive” non-European people figures out how to stack one rock on top of another….it’s ALIENS!!!! That’s how it started anyway. I’m sure there’s somebody out there who’s says there are alien fingerprints all over the Parthenon.

  • Gamera977

    Ahh, I just take it as a sorta liar’s club where everyone makes up increasingly over-the-top crackpot theories to outdo each other. But yeah I’ve gotten to the point of screaming at the TV and turning it off when it gets too stupid for even me. And if you played a drinking game with that ‘is it possible’ comment- you’d end up passed out before the first commercial break.
    Interesting point there about Euro-centrism. I’ve thought that even a small European cathedral shows more engineering aptitude than all the pyramids put together and I’ve never heard anyone claim aliens build those. Or even the Great Wall of China.
    There’s a lot that Gene Roddenberry said and did I don’t agree with but I think he said it best when he commented that aliens didn’t build the pyramids- humans did. Because humans are smart and hard-working and when we decide we want something we figure out a way to do it. It’s a colossal disservice to humanity to keep explaining away the great wonders of the ancient world with aliens.

  • Ericb

    You don’t really get the “it must be aliens” thing regarding old world cultures that much. I think is originates from the fact that much of the fabulous architecture in the Western Hemisphere were in ruins when the Europeans first arrived (Maya, Teotihuacan, Nazca etc.) and many of the locals themselves thought they were built by “gods”. There was a similar attitude in the 19th century in North America regarding the many earthen mound structures that were discovered. The Indians couldn’t have built them so it must have been people from Atlantis!

    Regarding the “is it possible?” logic on the History Channel, I was stuck in a hotel once and ended up watching a 2 hour (!) documentary about a “rune stone” of dubious origin found in Minnesota and the “is it possibles?” ended up with the conclusion that the Knights Templar must have established a colony in Minnesota in the 13 Century. Occam’s hammer certainly wasn’t in operation there.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Well, if it’s any consolation, Afro-centrists argue that every single monument in Europe was stolen from the lost African super-civilization by the White Devils.

    But yeah, the low, low opinion those ancient astronaut guys tend to have of humanity’s ancestors gets real depressing. They think that the ‘primitives’ couldn’t wipe their own posteriors without the Space Brothers showing them the way.

  • Eric Hinkle

    No, no, the medieval cathedrals were built by the ancient Freemason-Templar-Atlantis conspiracy to HIDE THE TRUTH about Christ’s Buddhist origins…

  • Eric Hinkle

    Concerning the North American mounds, if you want to fuss they really WERE built by a lost civilization. It’s just that it was a lost civilization of American Indians that died out about 50 years before Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

  • SteveWD

    For sheer comedic value on History Channel I’d go with ‘The Curse of Oak Island’. I haven’t seen it lately but the last episode I saw, I swear they were convinced they were going to find Aztec Templar Aliens guarding the Ark of the Covenant at the bottom of that empty hole. (Heck, Bigfoot might even be hanging around down there)

  • Eric Hinkle

    I keep thinking that one day someone will indeed find the bottom of the Oak Island treasure pit, and they’ll discover a chest containing only a parchment that reads, “Well, you stubborn so-and-so, you finally found the treasure!”

  • “The princess is in another castle.”

  • Rodford Smith

    Actually, plenty of Europeans have said Stonehenge couldn’t possibly have been constructed without aliens/magic/psi powers.

  • Ericb

    Stone Age aliens.

  • zombiewhacker

    Yes. The movie’s called Pharaoh’s Curse, and Famous Monsters (years and years ago) showed a pic of the film’s mummy attacking some scared-looking guy.

  • zombiewhacker

    Incidentally, either Creepy or Eerie magazine back in the day did a story about a *genuine* were-mummy. Meaning… he was a rampaging mummy by day, but by the light of the full moon he became a rampaging werewolf wrapped in bandages. Mind you, this was all played with a straight face…

  • Eric Hinkle

    Thanks, Zombiewhacker. You are a gentleman and a scholar.