Sigh. I really wanted that movie to be good . . . ..

Honestly, I’m just glad to see the 1932 movie acknowledged. Drives me nuts when folks refer to the Brendan Fraser remake as “the original” MUMMY movie.

Ran into that just Tuesday. Mentioned that TCM had run a Mummy marathon Sunday night and was greeted with “I liked the first one, with Brendan Fraser, but the sequels…

Based on the novel by Richard Matheson. 

Surprised you didn’t mention Richard Matheson’s novel “Hell House,” which was made into the 1973 movie THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE.

Hill House.  Hell House.  I’ve known people to get them confused. 

In the comics, the bat-gadget thing usually requires some suspension of disbelief. Nightwing has a skin-tight costume and NO utility belt, but somehow seems to have an unlimited number of Batarangs and other gizmos tucked into his boots and gloves—which you probably don’t want to think about too hard.

It’s a…

I think Bertinelli’s origin story has been rebooted a couple of times. Same basic Mafia princess story, but with changing details and different versions of how she first met Batman, Batgirl, Nightwing, etc. And, yes, apparently she became biracial during the Rebirth reboot, which was about two years ago. The latest…

Ah, I’m clearly out of date.  As noted, she’s been rebooted a few times since her debut back in 1977 . . . .

I’m perversely proud of editing the novelization of this back in the day. (Yes, there was a novelization.) What can I say? It seemed like a good idea at the time. Renny Harlin was coming off DEAD HARD 2 and CLIFFHANGER, Davis had recently won an Academy Award, so an action-packed pirate epic starring David as a…

Heck, several reboots ago, the Huntress was orgiinally the daughter of Batman and Catwoman, so, yes, very white.

Maybe you’re thinking of Vixen?

See also THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE from the seventies in which a horny ghost convinces a young medium that, because he died a virgin, his frustrated spirit cannot rest until he gets some.

It doesn’t end well for her . . ..

No argument there. But Robert Wise, who directed the 1963 movie, and Julie Harris, who starred in it, were no slouches either.

From what I saw of the remake, however, it completely missed the point of the novel AND the classic movie, replacing subtle ambiguity with in-your-face SFX . . . 

If you’ve only seen the abysmal modern remake with Owen Wilson, you owe it to yourself to see the original 1963 movie version, which is one of the all-time classic horror movies.

And, yeah, troubled siblings returning to the house they grew up in? That sounds like a completely different story than THE HAUNTING OF HILL…

I remember when this being talked about. Always disappointed that we had wait umpteen years for the Halle Berry version instead. 

I’m up for an ASSIGNMENT: EARTH reboot, with Seven and Roberta Lincoln recast, of course.

Only been waiting for that for fifty-plus years now. 

They recast Sarek and Amanda.  Makes sense to recast Spock, too. 

Or Carrie Fisher, or Jamie Lee Curtis, or Lon Chaney Jr. . . ..

Spock never told his best friends that he had a fiancee until it was absolutely necessary. Spock never mentioned that the Vulcan Ambassador was his father until absolutely necessary. Spock never told anyone about his secret plot to hijack the Enterprise to return Pike to Talos. Spock never mentioned that he’d placed…

Patty Jenkins had done one low-budget movie and a ton of TV before directing WONDER WOMAN, but that turned out okay.

By contrast, Robert Wise was a legendary Hollywood director with a long string of genuine movie classics on his resume. Arguably, the greatest director ever to helm a Trek movie. The result was STAR…

Honestly, I’m just excited that we may be getting a Morbius movie at all.  No strong feelings regarding who plays him.  

This is where I inevitably point out that Universal pretty much invented the shared cinematic universe back in the 1940s when Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolf Man started guest-starring in each other’s pictures. And Toho did the same thing with their monsterverse, with Godzilla, Mothra, and Rodan each getting…