A BOMB...THIS IS WHY THE HORROR GENRE IS D-E-A-D TODAY!!

Rating: Null/10 (5 October 2000)

MORD39 RATING: 0 out of ****
About 16 years ago a certain Freddy Krueger came on the scene and tarnished the horror film. Thanks to his Don Rickles Style of wisecracks, the genre has never recovered.
Several years after that we were give TERMINATOR 2. Although the film managed to be good, we saw the true blossoming of a quick and easy way to produce special effects: CGI graphics. While it was okay for T2, who could know that this "morphing" would become the rule for nearly every horror and science fiction movie to follow?
This practice has reached its peak in the God-awful "remake" of THE MUMMY. It's filled with silly humor and computer graphic effects, and it's a disgrace to all horror films from the silent era to this very day. The characters are morons, the film is never serious, and the mind-numbing excesses of sfx just made me bored beyond endurance. I didn't know what I was watching during the entire film, but I suppose that's supposed to be the way it works. I must be wrong (hah!) because the movie was an enormous success, and a sequel is on its way (I won't see it).
MTV has gone ballistic in THE MUMMY. It's suitable for 14 -year-old's of all ages. A quick glimpse of this, a flash of that......and what is it all about?
The actual "mummy" (again note the use of quotation marks) is a computer-generated corpse/ghoul. It doesn't look like any mummy I've ever seen (in the movies or at museums). When it actually opens its moronic mouth and starts to SPEAK(??!!??) in a typically demonic-like tone, I give up.
And who was the bald guy supposed to be? And why does he open his mouth about twelve stories (thanks to CGI) and how does he have that ability? I know the real answer...just to blow away the audience with endless computer effects tricks to justify their overpriced tickets.
The horror genre is dead. It's been on its way for at least the past 15 years. THE MUMMY (1999) is a mindless mesh of mush...all laughs, all stupidity, total chaos, no point. It cannot touch the Boris Karloff 1932 original, the Hammer 1959 version, or even WE WANT OUR MUMMY (with The Three Stooges).