[Dr Kain]

The Mummy (1959) - The Boris Karloff version of The Mummy is by far my favorite Mummy movie of all time. Growing up though, I enjoyed The Mummy's Hand as I liked the idea of Kharis even if the rest of it was lackluster. Thankfully, Hammer does a great job of doing the Kharis saga better in one single movie that Universal was able to across five movies. Christopher Lee is pretty awesome for having little to no dialog and Peter Cushing really rocks in this movie. It drags a bit in the middle, but it is a very enjoyable one and is also one I would rebuy on BD if WB were to ever release it. I give it a nice 7/10 stars.

We also just watched the newest THoH episode. It was at least better than the last few. I enjoyed the Kubrick episode and there were some good moments in The Others. The first segment was absolute horse crap though.

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

I have to agree with the over-explaining position. It's why I disliked both the Texas Chainsaw and Nightmare on Elm street remakes, they went too deep into origin territory. These killers work better for me if there's still a shroud of mystery. Don't tell me Leatherface was bullied or some other stuff, it's a cheap way to try and force sympathy for a character who is otherwise still a raving mad murderer. Especially with Freddy though, it was confusing to try and spin that he could've been innocent in the remake. If he were innocent why would he come back from death to torment the children? Then the movie pretty quickly gets back to "oh wait, he was guilty!" business.

Personally, they should have made it that he was indeed innocent and that it was his rage that came back for revenge for him being burned for being innocent.