Gimme back my crystals, or I'll go tell my mummy.
A 1982 horror movie starring Ben Murphy and featuring Shari Belafonte-Harper.
A sarcophagus containing a Mummy is discovered in Egypt and brought back to a university for study. A student finds crystals inside and steals them to sell to other students. Meanwhile, an overdose of x-rays revives the mummy and unleashes a lethal fungus. The mummy goes on a killing spree in search of the stolen crystals. But is it really a mummy?
For the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version, shown under the alternative Spoiler Title Being From Another Planet, please go to the episode recap page.
This film has the examples of:
- All Just a Dream: Scene of the mummy busting through the door to McCadden's office is revealed to be a dream when Susie wakes him up.
- Amputation Stops Spread: When one student makes a mistake of touching the fungus on the sarcophagus, he is hospitalized and his hand has to be amputated.
- Anti-Villain:
- The mummy just wants its crystals back. It is still rather uncaring about the damage it causes.
- Related, the boy who stole the crystals in the first place. He had no idea the mummy would come back to life and hunt down its property so roughly.
- Asshole Victim: Seranno, at the end, tries to grab a crystal the mummy/alien had left behind, and gets his hand eaten by fungus.
- Body Horror: Don't turn an x-ray machine on someone infected by alien fungus, for it only makes it spread faster.
- Festering Fungus: The mummy and his sarcophagus are both infected with a fungus that rapidly destroys human tissue. The final shot of the film is Seranno screaming as he's devoured alive by it after touching one of the alien's crystals.
- Hate Sink: Sharpe, Rossmore and Seranno. Rossmore, in particular, is more concerned with preserving the college's (and his own) image in the media than with the fact that there seems to be a murderer about. Seranno, for his part, is perfectly willing to frame a man he knows to be innocent, for a crime he knows didn't happen, just to advance his own career.
- Heroic Sacrifice: A rather odd example: upon learning the mummy/alien's true nature, McCadden takes a bullet for it when the other characters try to shoot it (it only hits him in the shoulder so he lives), even though the creature has already killed multiple people and there's basically no reason for him to care about it, let alone put his life on the line for it.
- Hurricane of Puns: Many mummy puns are thrown around in the costume party.
- Karma Houdini The mummy/alien just teleports back home once it gets its crystals. Oddly, the film acts like this is a good thing, even though the mummy murdered a couple of people just for the crime of having the crystals it wanted (which they didn't even know the mummy needed) as well as murdering a janitor who didn't even have any crystals and was just in his way.
- Mistaken for an Imposter: On his way to a costume party, Peter, who is dressed as a mummy, scares two lovebirds making out in a park. When the real mummy shows up later, it is mistaken for Peter pulling the same stunt again.
- Mummy Wrap: The scroll found with the mummy reveals that it was carrying the deadly fungus on it even in Ancient Egypt, and was mummified alive in order to contain it.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: A mummified alien, in this case.
- Oh, Crap!: The doctor who belatedly discovers that x-ray radiation is what triggers the fungus' growth. He quickly tries to call the hospital to warn them not to x-ray a fungus victim but is too late.
- Power Crystal: The crystals that were in mummy's sarcophagus are part of a device that rejuvenates and transports it.
- Psychic Powers: The mummy is shown to have telekinetic powers when it levitates one of the crystals into its hand. Several people would still be alive had the mummy used it more often.
- Real Event, Fictional Cause: It's implied that the fungus was the cause of Tutankhamun's early death.
- The Reveal: The mummy is an alien that was visiting Earth in the past.
- Sequel Hook: The alien transports itself and McCadden to somewhere in the ending, and the film ends with a To Be Continued. The sequel never materialized.
- Taking the Bullet: After the mummy reveals itself to be an alien, McCadden takes a bullet meant for it in his shoulder.
- Tempting Fate: At the climax Seranno tells McCadden that McCadden is about to go to jail and that Seranno will soon "get exactly what I deserve!"
- Teacher/Student Romance: Prof. McCadden and his student Susie are shown to be romantically involved, which professors and students really aren't supposed to be.
- Zombie Gait: Averted. This mummy is really spry for a 3000-year-old corpse, which is justified by its undetermined alien abilities. It still performs a traditional Menacing Stroll for dramatic purposes when it confronts Susie.
