Review of The Mummy's Hand (1940) by Andreas O — 01 Nov 2012

With the Mummy's Hand, Universal did a complete 360 from the Karloff film. With all new characters, a new mummy and a new storyline, this bears little resemblance to the first movie - save from the metric tons of footage lifted from it, of course.

With a slant towards comedy that hasn't aged too well, this is one of the lesser Universal chillers of the time. But the mummy stays bandaged this time, and it is clear that this film is the basis for the modern Mummy reboot as well as the Hammer films of the 50s and onwards.

An uneven experience, but a nice evening wrap.