the words and worlds of John Robinson
Call us naïve, but in 1993 when my cousin and I went to the theater to see Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, we both thought Jason would actually be in hell fighting demons or doing something in the netherworld. As it happened, the only people who were in hell were us because the …
For forty-four years I have loved the Universal Monsters (that's right, I'm gonna say since birth). Even before I had seen Gill-man’s movie, I liked the character. The same goes for the Phantom (although I liked his movie less than the others, I respect its place in the franchise-- the best version will always be …
Noted archeologist, Dr. Gustav Zoomer, has located the remains of the mummy of Klaris in the deserts of Egypt. Klaris was the guardian of the tomb of Princess Ara. Along with the mummy, Zoomer has in his possession Klaris’s medallion which gives the directions of where to find Princess Ara’s treasure. Zoomer relates all of …
Kharis, the mummy, is back in The Mummy’s Curse and he’s...he’s still played by Lon Chaney, Jr., and he gets up to his old tricks in the last of Universal’s classic mummy monster movies. At the end of The Mummy’s Ghost, we last saw Kharis carrying Amina into the swamp as he was being pursued …
Andoheb, whom you may remember survived being gunned down in The Mummy’s Hand and died, again for the first time, I think (I honestly can’t remember by this point) after passing on the title of High Priest to Mehemet Bey in The Mummy’s Tomb, is back at it once more in The Mummy’s Ghost. In …
Thirty years after the events of The Mummy’s Hand, Steve Banning relates his Egyptian adventures to his family over tea and coffee one genial afternoon. The story of his fight against Andoheb and Kharis, the mummy, is a little far-fetched for his son and other relatives to believe, but if his wife, Marta (whom you’ll …
One night in the deserts of Egypt, a man named Andoheb visits the Hill of the Seven Jackals to inherit the title High Priest of Karnak. His responsibility is to keep the mummy, Kharis, alive. A brew of three tana leaves keeps the mummy alive, but sedated; nine leaves gives him enough life to walk. …
In ancient Egypt, High Priest Imhotep (the Great Karloff) is in a forbidden love affair with Princess Anck-su-namun. She is a devotee of the goddess of Isis and a priestess in the Temple of Karnak. When the princess dies, Imhotep is, naturally, beside himself with grief. The High Priest can’t live without his beloved, so …
Tommy Nelson is a boxer with character and a sense of ethics. When he’s approached by the mob to throw a fight, he refuses and defeats his opponent. This act of defiance is not appreciated by the mob. They kill Tommy’s manager and frame him for the murder. On the lam, he needs help and …
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I said in an earlier article that if I possessed the power of invisibility, I don’t think I’d be a complete villain. I wouldn't be criminal, but I sure would scare the hell out of quite a few people. I'd like to be an optimist here and think most of us wouldn't do anything too …
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