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The Mummy (1932)
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Welcome to Little Bracket of Horrors. The pod that puts the fight in fright!
In this episode we unwrap the 1932 Universal Monster classic, The Mummy. Staring Boris Karloff (The Uncanny!) and also providing Karl Freund, legendary cinematographer, with his United States directorial debut...much to the chagrin of Zita Johann, who played the damsel in distress Helen Grosvenor.
Join the LBOH crew as they dig into the behind the scene drama and attempt to figure out what exactly is going on with Imhotep's hot tub time machine. Just remember the stern warning of the Scroll of Thoth box, "Death...eternal punishment...for anyone who opens this...".
Welcome back. I'm Derek.
SPEAKER_00I'm Shelley. We're in a different order. Oh, we are.
SPEAKER_05I'm Matt.
SPEAKER_04Threw us off, huh? I was really confused. Yeah, that was awesome. This week uh we get into the 1932 Universal Monster Classic, The Mummy. But before all that, do you guys anything scary happen or you watch anything scary?
SPEAKER_00No, but we uh kind of had a mini podcast get together, I guess you could say. Yeah, we did. Yes, I am currently in a production of the producers at Francis Wilson Playhouse in Clearwater. I am in um the ensemble in several supporting roles. And my two podcast bros came and saw me with their wifeies on Saturday.
SPEAKER_04It was glorious. It was awesome. It was fantastic. Anyone that's you know local to the Clearwater, Tampa area, definitely go check it out. It it was it's hilarious. It's uh what Mel Brooks, right?
SPEAKER_00Mel Brooks comedy originally was a movie, then turned into a Broadway show, redone as a movie. Um, we're doing more based on the original Broadway version of the show.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it's regardless, hilarious. Yeah, it was so fun.
SPEAKER_05You did a great job, by the way. Oh, thank you. It's it's always fun because this is our second time uh huh going to one of your shows, and they're always a blast. Yeah. So thank you for doing this so we can get out and do something else.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's a great little theater down in Clearwater near the water. It's called Francis Wilson Playhouse. Uh the website's the same as the name.org. Several shows. We're wrapping up our our season right now, but there is lots of fun shows that actually you can see coming up for next season if you if you come to the producers and look through the uh the playbill. We got some fun things for next year, so we're looking forward to it. So that was fun, and I appreciate you guys coming out and supporting me.
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah, it's a blast. It was a blast. Highly recommended if you guys are in the area. How about uh how about you, Matt?
SPEAKER_05Anything scary. It's just getting hotter, it's just getting hotter outside. That's all. That is scary. I'm coming home with salt sweat marks on my shirt, so that that's that's really it.
SPEAKER_04So, you know, we our last movie was Phantasm. So I finished watching all five of the films. Oh, you did. I did. Shelly's shaking her head at me. She can't, she does not understand why. You know, no spoilers or anything, but if you enjoyed the first one and you don't mind plot holes, go ahead and check them all out. But if you want things tied up in a nice bow, maybe just sit it out.
SPEAKER_00I was gonna say what you're really trying to tell me is they never explain any of it.
SPEAKER_04No spoilers. No spoilers.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_04But then also I I did want to touch on, you know, we're doing the mummy this week, and on Shudder, there is a uh there's a documentary called uh Boris Karloff, the man behind the monster. It's amazing, highly recommended. They go into all of his earlier work, and they just you know, it gives behind the scene and backstory and all that stuff. So really worth your time. Totally check it out. If if you guys love the mummy and Boris Karloff, check it out. Very well. Want to get into this? Let's get into it. First segment dig up the bones. And this Matt just introduces the movie, gives a brief little synopsis on it, and we kick it off. So, Matt, are you ready with your handy dandy notes? I think I'm ready. Awesome.
SPEAKER_05A team of British archaeologists led by Sir Joseph Wempel, played by Arthur Byron, discovered the mummified remains of the ancient Egyptian prince Emotep, played by Boris Karloff, along with the legendary scroll of Throth. When one of the archaeologists recites the scroll out loud, Emotep returns to life but escapes. Several years later, Emotep has taken on the guise of a wealthy man as he searches Egypt for his lost love who he believes has been reincarnated as a lovely Helen played by Zita Johan.
SPEAKER_04So how'd you guys feel knowing we landed on the mummy?
SPEAKER_00I I was excited. Universal monsters are a classic, they're the ones who started it all. I went in with an open heart and open mind, knowing that we weren't gonna see the horror movies of today. It was gonna be very different, more like the movies you know my mom grew up on. Yeah. I'm aging you, mom, sorry. But yeah, what about you, Matt? Did you have any expectations?
SPEAKER_05So I was I was excited because I have not seen this movie at all. You know, I've heard of it and everything, but um, I was excited to get to like a classic. So I was excited.
SPEAKER_00I don't think any of us had seen this one.
SPEAKER_04There was a so I own it on Blu-ray. But you'd never seen it until So I bought it a couple years ago at Spooky Empire, and I watched it when I had a seen. Yeah, I but I just watched it once, and with everything I watch, it just I lose it with memory. But I've I was excited that we were gonna get into a classic, like you guys were saying. But what I'm really excited about is at the end of the year, when we get into the tournament, how we pit these movies up against each other. This is gonna be a curveball wherever it lands so because so far there is no other movie that's like apples to apples with us. Yeah, true. Right. So it's gonna be it's gonna be a lot of fun when we get into it.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I think like Shelly said, my expectations as far as gore and stuff, and you know, yeah, I mean, it wasn't I was expecting nothing.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it was a really short movie, too.
SPEAKER_05Right, right. I it was I was surprised. It was very short. Yeah. What was it, like an hour fifteen, maybe?
SPEAKER_00Something like that.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Short little little guy. Yep. All right, guys, let's get into it. Feasting fiends. And this we just have a round table discussion and we discuss the topics of overall pros, overall cons of the movie, favorite lines, most enjoyable character, most annoying character, and then we finish it off with a favorite kill slash scare. So, pros, Matt, take it away.
SPEAKER_05Alright, so pros, I would say this movie had a great storyline from the beginning to the end. Just there wasn't anything that was left unturned as far as emotep and where he came from and what his what is.
SPEAKER_04We didn't have the plot holes of uh Phantasm.
SPEAKER_05Right, right. There was no plot holes. They even, you know, he even went back and explained um Helen was her name, even explained to her what you know what he's doing and stuff. So I thought that storyline was great. Movie doesn't leave us wondering what the object and goal is for the mummy. Yeah. So that that was mine. Great story. Cool, Shelly.
SPEAKER_00I actually thought I know we kid a lot about the Brendan Fraser mummy, but it was really cool to see the relatable factors from the original 1932 mummy to the Brendan Fraser mummy. And it I went back and s and read through, you know, when we go through and look at do a little bit of research that 1932 mummy was the first mention of emotep, and he didn't return until the Brendan Fraser Mummy. So they had a bunch of mummy movies in between, right? But it was never about emotep until the new one. So it was cool to see those correlations even between like how there's a love interest and how the main mummy is trying to take the love interest. So those were all relatable factors. So I thought that was neat to see.
SPEAKER_05A lot of similarities in both of them, huh? Yeah. Pretty cool.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Knowing what Karloff did special effects-wise for 1932. I had seen that, you know, going to Universal Studios in the they have a horror makeup show. They always talk about what he did. I mean, he laid products on your skin that you should never lay on your skin. But it was part of his mastery and his technique, and like that, just that alone, even though that's not like I don't know, the best thing about the movie in my eyes, but like knowing all that background about it, like I really appreciated that. And I just think the black and white era film it hits different. It's a different beast. And I do love it in some essence, those old classics, working at the great movie ride, knowing like Casablanca in that day and age. So that that did fill my heart a little bit. So those those were the things I really enjoyed about the movie.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, he he went through a lot of in the movies that he that he did, he went through a lot of abuse. I know the Frankenstein when he was in that, just the costume for Frankenstein was like oh yeah, enormous.
SPEAKER_04I think Jack Pierce was the same uh makeup effect guy on Frankenstein. He did like all the universal monsters, but that's where they first worked together.
SPEAKER_00But he was like, But didn't Carloff Karloff did his own makeup, didn't he? I didn't see oh he may not be credited with it, but that's something that he assisted.
SPEAKER_04Oh, cool.
SPEAKER_00I'm I'll look it up really quick. Okay, just to make sure I'm gonna go.
SPEAKER_05So the mummy, he said the the makeup for the mummy was uh worse than Frankenstein, I think is is one of the things I one of the things I said to get.
SPEAKER_04And that opening scene where he was in the sarcophagus still and uh they were, you know, he came to life. That was a complete he was all wrapped up from head to toe. I guess like so he grabbed the scroll and left. He was in the full garb, but they didn't shoot any of that, which is such a shame because he had to go through all that pain, and all we got was his hand in that screen.
SPEAKER_05And a little toilet paper.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and the rag going out the door. Yeah, I know. I'm gonna jump in with my pros, much like Shelly, you know, the black and white soft spot at my heart. And then I also enjoyed the costume design, which was done by Vera West. It was amazingly done. And then uh special effects, you know. I I just shouted out Jack Pierce a little bit ago, but I thought the uh meticulous line work on Ardith Bay, which was you know the reincarnation, or not the reincarnation, but when Emotep came back and was gone for 10 years, and then he showed back up. It was Ardith Bay, and I thought the line work on him was just like perfectly done, and then also some of the camera shots, especially when you know Emotep was summoning Helen, and there was like that translucent like his face, and then her like walking, coming to him. I thought that was beautifully done and some awesome, awesome camera work. So, shout out to Carl Frond, the director.
SPEAKER_00I just gonna say you're right. It was Jack Pierce who did his makeup. It was one of the classic monsters that applied their own makeup. I can't remember. Maybe Karlov helped with some of the techniques or something, but I can't remember exactly, and I can't find it right now. But yeah, you were right on Jack Pierce. So I just wanted to follow up that I did pull it up.
SPEAKER_04And then uh, I'm sorry, just so much so much love for this. But just like Matt, I thought it was a great story. You know, it wasn't just a simple little evil entity trying to destroy something, and you're there was a reason for it, you know. And when you boiled it down, it it became like a love story. Like he was trying to get his princess back and all that. So it was it was complex in its simplicity, but it was still really good. And like Matt said, no, no plot holes. We we knew what was going on.
SPEAKER_00Exactly.
SPEAKER_04Let's move on to cons. Anyone want to jump on first?
SPEAKER_05Or I mine's pretty brief. Let's do it. Go ahead. So so new to the game, right? So, you know, watching these movies, you you kind of understand like the 70s and 80s horror movies, it's gonna be terrible acting no matter what. No matter what it is, it's just terrible.
SPEAKER_04There's some good stuff out there, we just haven't got any of it yet.
SPEAKER_05Right, so far. So a lot of the for me, the only thing, and and there was barely anything, but just the silence. The silence through through the movie, and maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong, but is that just to to show them emotion? Show their emotion, like where where I forget the guy's name in the in the first scene where the scroll box is there. Oh, Ralph Norton, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, the guy who reads Did you say Ralph Norton? Ralph Norton was the guy's name, wasn't it? Yeah, okay. Is Ralph Norton something else? I would maybe I'm thinking of honeymoon. Is that on Honeymooners? I have no idea.
SPEAKER_00Anyways, anyways, aging yourself.
SPEAKER_05So so when he was sitting there and he's like, you can tell him he's sort of like battling with himself to open it. Yeah, but then not just that scene, but there were other scenes where it's just quiet, like nothing, nothing's going on. So if you blink your eye, yeah, and you could doze off and fall asleep. And I found myself doing that a few times during those scenes.
SPEAKER_00What's new? Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER_04No, you're I mean, these films weren't too far removed from silent film. And that's that's what I was gonna say.
SPEAKER_00That's the only thing I can think is they were so used to nothing. Yeah. I mean, yeah, they had dialogue in the silent movies, but they didn't, you know, record sound back then, or I don't know how even how it worked. They had music composed to it. But yeah, I mean, maybe it was just kind of a nod or a flashback, or close enough where it is kind of like that's how they transitioned. Who knows?
SPEAKER_05You're probably right. So that's that's pretty much it. I mean, other than that was a con just a side, just the silence of it. The you know, it was it would be like a scene where it's like literally three to five minutes of just nothing but just movement, you know, just them doing this over here, and it's just quiet. So I gotcha. That's all cool.
SPEAKER_00No back audio, right?
SPEAKER_05I need stimulation, man. I need something that's gonna I need some noise in the back, a door slamming or something, you know. You're a modern man. I got you. Shelly, go ahead.
SPEAKER_00So, like I mentioned earlier, it was short. I could have used a little more. I was into it and I felt like it just kind of was like, oh, it's over. So and it happened all so quick. Um, but maybe that's because we're used to like the super long movies. I mean, we get Marvel movies that are almost three hours these days. So I didn't like maybe, and maybe this is kind of like to Matt's point, I didn't like how sometimes it was really dark. So, like there were scenes where it was just lit lighting one little thing, like Karloff looking at something, and everything else around him was dark. And I felt like that was a missed opportunity for a really cool set, like having more set pieces or like showing those cool Egyptian things, but then they would just light him. But again, to that essence, we were so new in like movies still back then that maybe that was a choice. Um, and then the acting was overall meh to me. I mean, even Karloff wasn't like, oh my god, that was the main. I mean, he was great at his craft and what he did, but like I don't know, the the relationship seemed forced, the dialogue seemed forced. I mean, maybe that's not the the actors themselves, but the writing through an essence. But like the girl overacted so much, I don't know. It was just a lot, yeah. But those were mine.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, but it was it was funny. I mean, the I think this might have been the first film where Karloff actually had a chunk of dialogue and was actually because in Frankenstein he was just well, yeah. Frankenstein's monster doesn't talk, yeah, exactly. And then he did something before this, but then uh prior to that, he lived in Canada and was doing a bunch of silent films, but uh you know, he was finally given dialogue, and it's so funny because when I think of Karloff, like his voice just takes me to the Grinch. Like automatically, I just start thinking of the narration and the Grinch's voice. So, like that's like from my childhood, I think that, and then he's you know, this evil character. So but for me, for cons, you know, much to like Shelly said, it was hard for me to put myself critiquing this because you know I gotta take off my modern hat and put myself back in the 1930s. But I just said, so uh I would have liked more action. For example, when Emotep is attempting to resurrect the princess in a museum and the guard breaks in, and that's I think to what the one scene you're saying, it just went black and then it was a flashlight, that would have been a cool moment to have him like jump scare, but it was just like he was caught and like he had like a oh no, I just got caught. Look, it wasn't like a oh, I'm gonna attack. But then uh in that same scene, that that museum guard is killed, and we don't see how we don't see any kind of struggle. There's no there's no like fight back and forth just to scream, just a scream, and then oh, he's dead. So just maybe a little more action physicalness to it would have brought you know more of that in and made it go a long way. So ready? Let's move on. Favorite lines, Matt. What do you want to do?
SPEAKER_05Okay, so I have a I have two or three. Well, one thing I have one thing I have a question about. Yeah. Not a question, more of just a statement. They sure do mention a lot of toilet stuff.
SPEAKER_04I was I did write that in my notes, but I didn't know where to put it. What is what is toilet stuff? I don't know.
SPEAKER_05I don't know if that means undergarments or what. Like toilet paper or like toothbrush. You gotta put yourself in the 1932 mindset. But what is it? They said it like three times toilet stuff. So I'm like, hmm. Yeah, what toilet stuff is.
SPEAKER_04When they're when they were talking about the princess's uh tomb and the material that they you know brought out, they talked about toilet stuff. It's weird.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, so I I thought that that was that was kind of weird. Um my one one of uh my favorite lines was where Frank and Helen are talking to each other, they meet for the first time, yeah, and Frank goes, you know, they they're talking for a little get bit, and Frank goes, Oh, I know it seems absurd when we've known each other for such a short time, but I'm serious. And then Helen responds and says, Don't you think I'd had enough excitement for one evening without the additional thrill of a strange man making love to me? Like, wow.
SPEAKER_04Poor Helen throughout this film, just being chased by two very thirsty gentlemen. Right. She just can't catch a break. I know. Yeah, and yeah, Frank this is the mark so bad.
SPEAKER_05Was that what he was at? But did she just assume that that's what she won what he wanted?
SPEAKER_04Oh, I thought it was I thought it was clear as day. I mean, he just told her he just told her that he he was talking uh at the one point he was talking about how when they're digging up uh yeah, with that screen too. Uh when they're digging her out, he was like he fell in love with her face with a mummy with her face, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Which is and I'm thinking, wait, the thing's been dead for how long? What a creep. The face. I fell in love with the face. Wouldn't the face be all like gross? You would think so. A lot of decaying and wrappings. Yeah. I thought that that was interesting. What do you got, Shell?
SPEAKER_00I got the line in the beginning, which I thought was cool. Um, just because the mummy was one of the scenes on the great movie ride, and we had Anubis, which is the god of the dead, and all those hieroglyphics and stuff like that. So I liked when Dr. Muller said, look, the sacred spells which protect the soul in its journey to the underworld have been chopped off the coffin. So emotep was sentenced to death, not only in this world, but in the next. I was like, that was cool.
SPEAKER_05That's a great one.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. Very cool. Yeah, he was awesome. But uh, so I have two, they're but they're both kind of within the same mindsets of both yours. But the first one I had was it was a conversation between Joseph Wemple and Ralph Norton, and they're reading the inscription on the box that contained the scroll of Toth. So he's reading it and he goes, Death, eternal punishment for anyone who opens this casket in the name of Amin Ra, the king of the gods. Good heavens, what a terrible curse. And then Ralph Norton says, Well, let's see what's inside. Yeah, Ralph, let's see what's inside. And then they start yelling at him. Well, and then and then Mueller and Wemple go outside to discuss it because Mueller's against it, and Ralph, his curiosity killed the cat. And that's where it was silent for about three or four minutes. Exactly. So another one is with Frank Wemple and Helen. He was telling Helen about the story of exhuming the Egyptian princess and why Frank kicks it off and he goes, Had to. Science, you know. Well, after we worked among her things, I felt as if I'd known her. But when we got the wrappings off and I saw her face, you'll think me silly, but I sort of fell in love with her. And Helen says, Do you have to open graves to find girls to fall in love with? I was like, Frank.
SPEAKER_05He's got no game.
SPEAKER_04Oh, he's so weird.
SPEAKER_05He's going after dead chicks.
SPEAKER_04Well, he's telling he's telling living women that he's going after dead chicks. What is that called?
SPEAKER_05What's that called? Necrophilia? There you go. Oh, jeez. Frank's a little bit of a necrophilia. So uh that's funny I had that on mine too.
SPEAKER_04Oh, you did? Yeah, that was a good one, no. All right, let's move on, guys. Most enjoyable characters. Who wants to take it? Shelley?
SPEAKER_00I can, yeah. I mean, obviously, Karloff emotep. Yes. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I think we can all add on that. So yeah, yeah. Ditto. Yeah. Same here, the mummy. Emoteb. All right. So I'm gonna I'm gonna throw two more people in the mix. Yeah, I know. But uh Joseph Wemple, I just thought obviously he loved his work and he had passion for it. You know, multiple times he expressed that he was doing this for the love of science and not ego or money. So I appreciated that. Like in the opening scene, and uh also when he was talking to his son about uh how dare the Cairo Museum steal this from us English diggers. He's like, it's it's about the science, it's not where it is. And then also I enjoyed Dr. Mueller, who was played by uh Edward Van Sloan, and uh he was just the voice of Reason in the beginning, saying they needed to bury Emotep and not to unleash the ancient curse. He was the first one to figure out that Adith Bey was Emotep, and in order to destroy him, they had to destroy the Skrella Toth. So he was just like the smartest guy in a bunch.
SPEAKER_00And he was in two minutes of the movie, yes.
SPEAKER_04But I guess so that guy also played uh Van Helsing in Dracula. So it was it's very much the same. In a different movie, yes, exactly, but it's very much the same role. So that guy's that guy's uh really good at playing smart dudes. Smart dudes. Yep. All right, most annoying characters, Shelly.
SPEAKER_00I only have one. Do you have five? No, I have one.
SPEAKER_04I have one.
SPEAKER_00Um well I didn't like the girl, the princess. I just put princess because yeah, I don't like care.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Awesome. Yeah, Matt. I didn't like Frank. You don't like I don't like Frank either. I did not like Frank. I didn't like Frank at all. He's just too lovesick. Yes, dude, just back it up a little bit.
SPEAKER_00But emotep wasn't?
SPEAKER_05No, I was just gonna well he was, but he wasn't such like he just I don't know, he seemed like uh just wouldn't go away.
SPEAKER_04He was just a dusty horny man, yeah. Right, right. But uh yeah, I've I I was the same Frank, way too thirsty.
SPEAKER_05Well he when I I forget um the doctor. I think it was Mueller Mueller. He was he was talking to him and he and uh he was talking to Frank and he's like I know that you guys like each other and he was like oh oh he's like do I have a chance? Do you think I got a chance? Like set the fuck down.
SPEAKER_03That was right after his dad. That was right after his dad died of a heart attack. Doesn't care, whatever.
SPEAKER_04Complet about it. You think I got a chance with her? Yeah, it was insane. Jeez. So I think we just moved through annoying characters. So let's finish it off. Favorite kill slash scare. What do you guys got? So I'll go ahead first.
SPEAKER_05So there wasn't anything scary in this movie at all, but I thoroughly enjoyed where he opened Nort guy, Norton guy. Ralph Norton. Ralph Norton opened the opened the box and had the scroll. And then where Boris Karloff, the mummy, his eyes started opening in his hand. I thought that that was really cool. Yeah. To just focus in on that. I thought that was awesome. It's a good uh-oh moment. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that was mine too. Um just because that's such a classic, iconic scene, too. Like image when anyone plays or picks a clip from the mummy to put in, like, I don't know, like some kind of collage or a bunch of clips together, or whatever you want to call that, they're gonna pick that clip. That's the classic mummy, and that's the only time he's in full mummy.
SPEAKER_04You know, like Matt said, there was nothing really scary in this film, just like scenes that were uh-oh scenes. So the obviously the awakening of the mummy, great scene, but another scene I liked was when uh he was talking he was talking to Helen and he was showing a flashback in his whatever the hot his hot tub time machine or whatever that thing was.
SPEAKER_05That's exactly what it was the smoke around and stuff. Absolutely. So he went back and hot tub time machine.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, so we see that he was caught doing unholy things and trying to resurrect uh the princess with the scroll toth, and they caught him and he was to be uh sentenced to being buried alive. As they were wrapping him up, just the look of terror and horror in his eyes as a wrapping him up is fantastic.
SPEAKER_05I agree with you because I really like that scene a lot too, because that that gave us an explanation, you know, of what the where the money came from and why he's doing what he's doing. But I almost looked at it too, like what we talked about with my issue of it being sort of like quiet. Like it was he's he's sort of narrating it and stuff, but but it almost like the way that it's like sped up a little bit, it almost seemed like reminiscent of a silent movie. Yeah, you know, like even like the makeup and stuff where he's like moving around and stuff, just the way it looked to me at least. It looked like it was uh like a silent movie or something. So I thought it was really cool. I like that one too. Good choice. We're gonna move on to Final Cut.
SPEAKER_04And this I just revealed a shocking ending of the film, and we discuss and give a ratings of one to five stabs. One stab, atrocious, no redeeming value, waste of time. Two stabs, forgettable, poorly done, bad, three stabs, mixed feelings, mediocre, okay? Four stabs, good, interesting, enjoyable, five stabs, masterpiece, excellent, perfect. Realizing that emtep intends to kill Helen and make her a living mummy like himself, Dr. Mueller and Frank race over to the museum. Meanwhile, Emotep has begun this ceremony to kill Helen and resurrect her as the princess. As Emotep prepares to stab the entranced Helen with the sacred knife, Mueller and Frank rush in and interrupt him. Suddenly, Helen rises from the altar and declares herself a maiden of Isis, and she prays to the statue to save her. Isis responds by raising its arm and emitting a beam of light, destroying the scroll of Toth, which causes Emotep to slowly return to his mummified state. In the final scene, Frank summons to bring Helen back. Yeah. That was the ending. How'd you guys feel? Was did you did you get to finish? Did I did everyone finish? Yes. I think I did. Yes. You got to finish. Good. Yes. Could there have been more? Were you guys happy with it? Was a little anticlimactic.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, like I said, it kind of seemed like they just kind of it sped through.
SPEAKER_04Mm-hmm. Right.
SPEAKER_00Even before we knew it was over. Yeah. And I could have used a little more, I don't know, maybe like after he faded away, like uh epilogue. But then it just cut to credits.
SPEAKER_04I get that. Yeah. I agree. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So I could have used a little more. I mean, I don't think they left anything, like Matt said, unturned or like plot holes or anything like that, but I could have used just a little more. I get that. I guess. Because they do go on to do other mummy movies, although Karloff isn't in them or and it's not emote. They could have, you know, even gone into another tomb and there's a a you know a coffin yet to be open or something like that. I don't know. So I'm not a director or a writer of movies.
SPEAKER_05No, yeah.
SPEAKER_04I'm with you. You're just a thespian. Thespian. What about you, Matt?
SPEAKER_05How do you Yeah, I I liked it. I mean, I I don't know. I kind of enjoy I I like the fact that it wasn't a super long movie. Like we were talking about Marvel movies, some it just gets too long, you know. So I thought it ended good. I liked it. Yeah, maybe maybe a little bit of a different ending. Yeah. Other than just, you know, him turning to slowly mummifying being a bag of bones in the floor. Right. So I liked it.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, what you guys said pretty much I would uh I would be repeating you guys. So yeah. I think I think we all agree about the ending. So let's get on to our stabs. Shelly.
SPEAKER_00I so it's hard because I'm trying not to. I feel like sometimes I'm harsh with some of the movies, and I think sometimes it might be the error that I'm harsh about. But I also don't want to change how I rate now because I've rated so many.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00But I know like I want to give this one lower, but I think it's like anything that would make it lower is because of the error that it's from, not particularly the movie itself. I don't know. So like I'm gonna have to give it three and a half. Nice because the acting was okay. It was slow at times, it just didn't make me jump out of my skin. But there was good things. So I I'm putting it right kind of in the middle, but giving it a little bump because it is a classic universal monster. I almost could give it a four. I'm very close to a four. So this is a hard one. I couldn't really decide. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04It's so funny you you talk about the acting, but it is like any of these those older movies you watch, and they just have that rhythm to them where they're like speaking fast. It's like uh it's just that's how they always did it. But uh Matt stabs.
SPEAKER_05So I like I said, I really enjoyed this movie, the great storyline. It was as far as time, there were parts that were just kind of dull, yeah, you know, slow, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. So I I gave it a four. Cool. I liked it. Um I watched it probably about eight times. Nice yeah, several times.
SPEAKER_00Did any of the kids watch it?
SPEAKER_05No. No, no, we didn't.
SPEAKER_00Those are the kind of movies I think kids should watch.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, well, Daniel watch Daniel, they will watch it. Lily, she just got in, she's starting to watch Stranger Things with us. Oh, yeah. She's like, Oh, it's not so scary. I'm like, yeah, it's really not.
SPEAKER_00And the mummy isn't scary at all. Right. Talk about if you have kids who can only sit down in front of a TV, you're always talking about good movies for horror movie, um, horror movies for kids. We've brought that up a few times because we do have a lot of kids in our life that and you know, they want the horror. And I've recently met a little little guy who, you know, mom keeps asking me for horror recommendations. Nice. If your kid has the attention span, the the hard part for this movie is it is an old movie. Yeah. If they can get past that, it is short enough where it's really cool to see the mommy. And I think this is a great movie, like a classic movie for kids to watch.
SPEAKER_05Well, Daniel's first movie was Frankenstein. The original the original, yeah. Karloff. Then the second was Child's Play. What? It's quite the jump. So yeah, but yeah, he watched that. And we'll definitely we'll definitely watch uh The Mummy for sure.
SPEAKER_00Family movie night. Yep.
SPEAKER_05Family movie night.
SPEAKER_00I bet you can borrow it on Blu-ray too.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't worry, I will. I had to rent it. Oh, geez.
SPEAKER_00So did I end up doing it too? Yeah. Yeah, your stabs, Derek.
SPEAKER_04My stabs. I was in between Shelly and Matt. I ended up giving it three stabs. You know, great story, effective visually, but you know, little action, not enough scares. So same.
SPEAKER_00I think we're all kind of in the pocket, the right same pocket there.
SPEAKER_04It's the same too. Like for it being, you know, the the foundation for which everything was built on. I want to give it like a four or five, but then for like what it's entertaining to me now, like it's just like yeah, it's such a struggle. So it's tough.
SPEAKER_00It's yeah, and then like like I said, you don't want to like start changing the way you rate just because this is a classic universal monster, you know. Like I think that's why I'm giving it the point five. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Like, okay, you're the mummy, so like I'm gonna give you a little boom, but I'm giving it a four because I because I did thoroughly enjoy it. But you know, and then like going back, if I could listen, I I I can, and anybody can if they want, go back and listen to our other podcast. Certainly, but I'd like to listen back and say and see what I picked for or what my stabs were for some of these, because I'm like, wait a second.
SPEAKER_04I think you gave Henry a four.
SPEAKER_05I probably did.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I'm pretty sure you gave Henry a four.
SPEAKER_05Which now I I might change my change my uh the more you get into more, the more you see, you realize where the differences are. So Henry might drop a little one what take one knife away, you know.
SPEAKER_00But you could at the end of the year also, although maybe you're higher in the ratings, whoever Henry goes up against, you might still pick the other one, if depending on who you never know. Yeah, it's we don't know. That's why this is so fun. We don't know how the end of the year is gonna go.
SPEAKER_04I'm look- I'm looking forward to it immensely. Next up is our segment called Voices from Beyond. And then Shelly just goes through our social media platforms and uh shares your guys' posts. And Shelly, take it away.
SPEAKER_00All right, so I have Sandy F this week, and she had actually never seen the 1932 version. She typically likes the classics, but this was a little lacking in dialogue. Whereas Karloff was probably her favorite character. Her favorite line, oh, this is actually a good one. A few thousand years in the earth will take the mumbo jumbo off any ancient curse.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that was good. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um, her least favorite character was the girl. Oh. Um, she did like the scenes when he was showing the girl his backstory. Nice. And then wrapping him alive. All in all, she gave it two stabs. Nice. We have like Lisa C.
SPEAKER_04Lisa.
SPEAKER_00Uh, she said in OG, Universal Monsters started it all. These are the original horror icons. Although Universal Monster movies are not the thriller blood spill horror movies we are used to today, they are the groundbreakers and the reason why we watch the horror movies we do. The mummy is a classic, and Karloff is the godfather of it all. Simple and to the point, with effects ahead of its time. This movie sits at a four stabs for Lisa.
SPEAKER_04There you go, Matt.
SPEAKER_00Nothing will top the bride of Frank. Her favorite quote is beg you beg your pardon. I dislike to be touched, and Eastern Prejudice.
SPEAKER_05I love that one too. That was that was up there too. That's a great one.
SPEAKER_00She said, She feels you, emotep. I feel you. Oh yeah. And she said, This is not on final. So for your record listeners, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Funny. Love it. Love it. We've got Carrie W. Nice, Carrie Dubbs.
SPEAKER_00Carrie Dubbs. Crazy enough that she this was her first time watching the film. She really loved the storyline, which kept her engaged. The dark makeup around the mummy's eyes in the close-ups. Loved it. She really enjoyed this film and she gave it three and a half steps. Oh, cool. Look at that.
SPEAKER_04Good job, Carrie W.
SPEAKER_00All right. And then Steve F sent me another email. Yes, emails.
SPEAKER_04If you guys want to mail us, we'll give you Shelley's email.
SPEAKER_00Get a P.O. box or something. Yeah, let's make it safe. Snail mail it. Um he said this is a classic, Boris Karloff. The makeup looks painful at best. Boris was never shown walking around in the full mummy makeup. Boris had gone through some pretty tough makeups in the past. Karloff's name alone was the big seller for the film because of Frankenstein. This was based on the actual opening of King Tut's tomb in 1925. Karloff, I guess, said to the makeup artist uh Jack Pierce at one point, Well, you've done a wonderful job, but you forgot to give me a fly. Yes. He couldn't pee, I guess. Yeah, exactly. And then his uh favorite quote was from Sir Joseph Wimple Death, eternal punishment for anyone who opens this casket. In the name of Amon Ra, the king of the gods. Good heavens, what a terrible curse. And then Norton says, Well, let's see what's inside.
SPEAKER_04Love it, Steve. Very cool. That was a good way. That was a way to wrap that up.
SPEAKER_00So thanks as always for our voices from beyond. You can find us on socials under our name, Little Bracket of Horrors, on Instagram and Facebook. We're posting there as much as we can. Sorry, with the play. I've been a little slow, but we are out there. Feel free to message us, even if you want to talk to us, or if you don't want to comment with your voices from beyond, you can email. We do have an email. We do have an email. I believe it's little bracketofhorrors at yahoo.com. That's it. So if you prefer at yahoo.com. So if you prefer to email your voices from beyond, there's an email for you. Or message us on Facebook and Instagram. We're pretty quick to respond.
SPEAKER_04So yeah, we're we're good about that.
SPEAKER_00Yep.
SPEAKER_04Do you guys have any interesting facts before we move on? All right, Matt, what do you got?
SPEAKER_05So just like you did not care for the Helen character, I don't think the director liked her either. This is very true.
SPEAKER_00Oh, at the end when she was begging for her life, I was like not really how most of us beg to not die. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Right, right.
SPEAKER_00I promise I wouldn't do loud things, did I?
SPEAKER_05I promise I wouldn't do loud things. But yeah, so they had they had a sort of combative relationship. I guess the director, uh uh Carl Fru Frund Freund? Okay. He attempted to portray her as this uh temperamental actress. Um, there was some issues there. Uh the poster holds the record for most money paid for a movie poster at auction, more than four hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars.
SPEAKER_00What yeah, I mean, to their point, they don't make movie posters like they used to.
SPEAKER_05I know, really.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, period and the statement.
SPEAKER_05Like what what do you chef's kiss? That thing is beautiful.
SPEAKER_00It is beautiful, it is yeah, gorgeous. And that's how all the posters, even in black and white, they are artistically beautiful. I mean, it's almost like the movie is on the poster. Yeah, it's just I love old school movie posters.
SPEAKER_05So I got one more. Um, so the director again, Carl Freund, was better known as a cinemat cinematographer, and he went on to work on the I Love Lucy show. Oh so all those camera angles the multiple cameras, multiple cameras is is from him. So he went to work on uh work on the show.
SPEAKER_04He was a huge innovator with uh cameras because he was also credited with he came up with a technique called unchained camera technique, and to us it means nothing now, but you know, this was in the silent film days. It was moving the camera throughout the scene instead of just having a still shot and then a still shot, he was moving through the room and catching people and like movements and stuff. So revolutionary for the time, but he was also credited with uh coming up with that. But that's really to to piggyback on your your relationship between Zita Johan, the the girl who played Helen and then the director, he asked her when her menstrual cycle was. No, and then was made sure to schedule her most strenuous scenes and when it was the hardest for her. Oh my gosh. This was according to this was according to Zita. This is what she said. So I thought, you know, if there's any indication that you don't like each other, I guess, it's pretty pretty bad.
SPEAKER_05And this was also kind of based on uh King Tut when they discovered him and everything, too. So I'm sure a lot of people know that.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. When they when they first had the script, I think that it was something about just like a mad scientist who was injecting nitrate into like dead people or something like that. But then John Balderson, the the writer, yeah, he was there when they opened King Tut's tomb. He worked for what was it, New York World? New York World, yes. So he was a reporter then, so then when he was signed on to help with, you know, help with the script, you know, he had all this back knowledge of Egyptian uh gods and all that stuff. Yeah. So there you go. I'm gonna fix that in editing, so I don't sound like a dum-dum. All right, guys, let's move on to the wheel of death. And this, Matt, you're gonna spin the wheel, but before we do any of that, we have to replace the mummy the mummy on the wheel. Shelly currently has her head in her head, her hand Frankenstein. She's got her hand in Ian Frankenstein head. And what film is replacing?
SPEAKER_00Ooh, I like this movie.
SPEAKER_04Cool.
SPEAKER_00I have seen this.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_00Derek may have too. Sinister.
SPEAKER_04Ooh. Sinister.
SPEAKER_00It's a scary one. It is scary. It's a scary one. Scary one for me.
SPEAKER_03It is scary.
SPEAKER_04I think I've heard of that movie. It's got Ethan Hawk.
SPEAKER_00Ethan Hawk.
SPEAKER_04Boom. Oh. Boom. Ethan Hawk.
SPEAKER_00And then it's the same, it's Blumhouse, right?
SPEAKER_04Yes. Yeah, it is.
SPEAKER_00Who is coming out with Blackphone.
SPEAKER_04That's right. Which is also Ethan Hawk. Yes, that looks so great. Oh, I can't believe Black Phone.
SPEAKER_00And we posted about Blackphone. Yeah, we did. Stephen King's son wrote Blackphone.
SPEAKER_04Oh, that's awesome. I did not know that. That's cool. I don't even know where you're going to be able to do it. We want to watch it more. Makes me want to watch it more. We posted it on our socials, Matthew. You don't worry about it. You just come on the ride with Shelly and I, right? Just edit that out. You're not paid to think. You're not paid at all.
SPEAKER_05Alright, so the movies that we have on the Wheel of Death are The Cabin in the Wood, Itchy the Killer, High Tension, The Demented, Mother, Wolf Cop, The Newly Entered Sinister, Ginger Snap, Nosferatu and Thirst.
SPEAKER_04Yes, spin that wheel. Alright, so we're the wheel of death. Wheel of death. Wheel of death. Wheel of death. Wheel of death. Wheel of death. Match you read.
SPEAKER_05So the movie we will be watching, The Demented. The Demented. The Demented.
SPEAKER_00I don't think I've seen this one. Okay. What year is it from? Do you know, off the top of your head?
SPEAKER_042023. I have my handy dandy Excel file up. Demented movie.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I have 2013? 2022. For a second I was looking at it.
SPEAKER_04I was like, uh 2023. Okay, so it's a supernatural horror. College kids attacked by raged zombies after terrorist attack. Another zombie movie. So it's raged a rage movie.
SPEAKER_00Love it. It's on Tubi. It's on Tubi for free. Tubi and Prime Video as well for free. Well, if you have a subscription to Prime, but definitely free. No subscription required for Tubi. And then it's available for rent, obviously.
SPEAKER_05So can my 14-year-old watch this one?
SPEAKER_00Uh it is parents. You make the call. What is rated? Oh, it's rated R. So yes. Awesome. And it is a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
SPEAKER_04Zero percent? Did anyone watch it? I don't probably not. I'm guessing no. This is gonna be great. Awesome.
SPEAKER_00Alright, when's our next when's this podcast for the Demented drop-in?
SPEAKER_04Alright, Demented dropping May 25th. So make sure you guys stay with us and tune in to the end of the season where all these movies we watch will be thrown into a tournament to determine which movies get cut and which film will be crowned champion of Little Bracket of Horrors 2022. If you live listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, please hit the follow button and give us a rating if you like what we do. You can find us on Facebook by searching Little Bracket of Horrors or on Instagram by typing at LittleBracket of Horrors. Thank you everyone for tuning in, and we'll catch you on the other side. I'm Derek.
SPEAKER_00I'm Shelly.
SPEAKER_04And I'm Matt.