Time Walker
Tags: cult, grindhouse film, murder

Plot synopsis:
We open with a zoom in from outside our galaxy, the planet Saturn, a view of the earthrise over the surface of the moon, and the earth zooming in on Egypt. Credits roll with the pyramids in the background. A modern archeological team is working when an earthquake rattles their site. When the lights come back on we see King Tut's tomb and a section of wall collapsed. Holding a flashlight is Prof. Douglas McCadden (Ben Murphy). His assistant, Abdellah (Behrouz Vossoughi) is at his side; inside the chamber is another tomb, surrounded by skeletonized remains.A Boeing 727 lands at an airport in Southern California. We see a panning shot of the California Institute of the Sciences (the campus of CSU, Northridge). McCadden is supervising the removal of the sarcophagus of Ankh Venharis from a truck. Annoying the professor is the campus photographer, Linda Flores (Shari Belafonte-Harper). After the tomb is set up in the lab/classroom, his student aid, Susie Fuller (Nina Axelrod) assists with removal of the seals. They remove the outer lid revealing a decorative inner lid. They read the cartouche--Ankh Venharis, translated as "a noble traveler." Michael Goldstein (Gary Dubin) asks why they would bury a foreign dignitary with King Tut. They start to remove the inner lid when they are interrupted by Peter Sharpe (Kevin Brophy) and his assistant wheeling in an X-Ray machine. They carefully remove the inner lid revealing the mummified remains of a humanoid body covered with wrappings that are covered with a green powdery substance. McCadden tells Michael to get a sample, but in doing so he gets a little on his wrist, despite wearing protective gloves. Susie hands McCadden a jar; he places the scroll of dedication into same and seals the jar. Class is dismissed. Sharpe derisively dismisses Jack Parker (Robert Random), but McCadden overrules him, explaining he is the chief engineer and he wants him present. Sharpe X-Rays the mummy, but after the third shot, Parker notices the setting on the machine and immediately pulls the plug. Sharpe was using ten times the normal dose. Exasperated, McCadden dismisses Sharpe and tells him to deliver the developed X-Rays to his office. Sharpe develops the X-Rays, but while checking them he notices five spherical objects on the film. McCadden and Susie are cleaning the scroll. Sharpe returns to the lab and aligning the X-Rays to the sarcophagus finds a hidden compartment. He opens it and retrieves a leather pouch containing five crystals. He pockets them, examines the rest of the drawer's contents, and satisfied the rest is worthless, closes it back up. He X-Rays the mummy so he can substitute the new film for the old. He packages the films and delivers them to McCadden's office. He stashes the incriminating X-Ray in a transformer room, but can't retrieve it.The high dose of X-Ray radiation reactivates the mummy. McCadden talks to a colleague on the phone about the green substance; he suspects it is a dormant mold. He asks Susie to run the sample over to Dr. Ken Melrose in Pathology. The arms of the mummy move revealing a bright blue light in his chest. The mummy sits up. Susie jostles McCadden awake. He fell asleep at his desk and it is now morning. Examining the X-Rays, McCadden concludes, "this mummy wasn't prepared in the standard manner." In the lab, Susie and McCadden discover the hidden compartment and pull it open. Instead of a green powder, they find a green and yellow wet-paint like substance. As Susie reaches out, McCadden tells her not to touch it, but go tell Melrose that the mold has changed.Sharpe stops by Drucker's Jewelers to have the crystals appraised. The Jeweler (Alan Rachins) informs him, "they are worthless." Ken Melrose (Austin Stoker) pays a visit to the lab and takes a sample from the hidden drawer. He informs McCadden that it is the same fungus, but no longer dormant. He advises no one go near it. The press has been invited to the lab where the sarcophagus is displayed. As they take their seats, McCadden talks to the University President about cancelling the press conference. Michael is guarding the sarcophagus when he notices a splotch of the active green fungus and touches it. He screams and holds his hand up in pain. His index finger is partially covered with the mold. McCadden orders Susie to take him to the campus Hospital Emergency Room and to call Melrose. Amid the commotion, the campus President, Dr. Wendell J. Rossmore (James Karen) walks in. He is flanked by his assistant, Dr. Bruce Serrano (Sam Chew, Jr.) and campus police Captain Willoughby (Clint Young). In his lab, Melrose begins his examination of the fungus. Rossmore takes over the presentation to the press, but he has McCadden unveil the mummy. When his students remove the inner lid the sarcophagus is empty.In the President's office, Peter Sharpe is questioned about his possible involvement in stealing the mummy. Parker is also present. Rossmore demands the mummy be found and directs the campus police to find it. McCadden suggests the local police be notified, but Rossmore insists the recovery be handled internally and directs Willoughby to search the campus. The mummy has chosen the reactor room to hide and work. A janitor (Hugh Stanger) comes into clean, discovers it and is killed. McCadden and Melrose are in the Pathology lab. Melrose explains that the fungus is like nothing he's ever seen. The phone rings and they leave. Dr. Hayworth (Antoinette Bower) is treating Michael Goldstein, and explains that the fungus breaks down tissues and doubles its size every 65 minutes. They enter Michael's hospital room. He has his right hand in a tray. Dr. Hayworth removes the cloth to reveal the fungus has covered it and half of his forearm. Dr. Hayworth recommends amputation before it goes any further.Sharpe is peeping at Parker's girlfriend, Jennie (Melissa Prophet) through the window. She is putting on her bra when his girlfriend, Sherri (Greta Blackburn) catches him. Jennie and Sherri are roommates and share a house together. As a peace offering he gives Sherri one of the crystals on a gold necklace. Capt. Willoughby, while on rounds, discovers the Electrical Supply Room has been burglarized. The room is a shambles. He uses the telephone to report the break in to Dr. Serrano, President Rossmore's assistant.McCadden walks over to KCIS, the campus radio station, and meets with Linda Flores. She is the evening DJ in addition to her duties as campus photographer. He broadcasts a message to the Fraternity houses demanding the return of the mummy. He warns them of the danger of the fungus on the wrappings. In need of more cash to take his girlfriend out to dinner, Sharpe sells a crystal to Greg Hauser (Gerard Prendergast). Now flush with cash, he and Sherri go to dinner at a very expensive restaurant. While dining, a couple of fraternity brothers see them and accost Sharpe over some unpaid loan. Stanley (Warrington Gillette) and Bill Vogler (John Lavachielli) take his $50, but he works a deal for a couple more crystals. While dining Sherri notices the crystal getting warm and lighting up and pulsating. After he gets off work, Greg Hauser stops by to see his girlfriend, Ellen Winters (Greta Stapf). She is babysitting. He puts his coat over the baby's crib and the crystal necklace he intends to give her as a present falls out. They walk down the hallway to the bedroom to make out. The mummy is on the prowl to recover his stolen crystals. He enters the house. Greg puts the present around her neck. The baby begins to cry and Ellen goes in to check on him. The mummy reaches out, takes the crystal, and she screams and falls back against the wall with a baseball sized burn on her chest. In the hospital, Dr. Hayworth introduces Lt. Plummer (Darwin Jostin) to Drs. Melrose and McCadden. Plummer tries to question Greg Hauser about the circumstances surrounding Ellen's accident and burn. He's in shock and only says one word, "Mummy." The mummy places the first of five recovered crystals on the triangular transmitter/receiver. When he does so electrical appliances in the vacinity begin to malfunction.McCadden has translated the scroll he found with mummified remains of Ankh Venharis. It reads, "because of his unusual appearance, the Egyptians assumed him to be a god...King Tut reached out to touch the weary traveler and was sorely burned with a disease that consumed his flesh." Melrose returns to his lab to do an experiment on the fungus; he discovers X-Rays activate it. He concludes that an X-Ray to check for broken bones on Ellen will do the same to her. He calls to have the X-Ray cancelled, but his call his too late. The X-Ray causes the fungus to spread to her neck and head and kills her. Stanley runs into Susie on the campus. He's interested in her, but she does not reciprocate. He gives her a bracelet with a crystal.It's now Saturday and a Fraternity party with an ancient Egyptian theme is starting. The mummy is back on the prowl (or glide) for another crystal. Bill Vogler is looking for his would be girlfriend, Sarah (Michelle Avonne). She stands him up and he throws the crystal necklace on the ground in disgust. He has second thoughts, and retrieves it only to have the mummy pull it from him. He gives Bill a back hand that knocks him into a wall with tremendous force killing him instantly. The mummy adds the second crystal to his transmitter, which causes a wider spread electrical interference. Jack Parker, who stopped by to see his girlfriend, Jennie, excuses himself to check on the power outage. He discovers a power drain in the campus reactor building, investigates, but is satisfied there is no danger. As he exits he bumps into Dr. Serrano and Capt. Willoughby. The fraternity party moves outside. While Jack Parker walks back to see Jennie, he discovers the body of Bill Vogler just as the party walks by. Lt. Plummer arrives and questions McCadden, then questions Rossmore. After the police leave, Serrano tells Rossmore he believes McCadden stole his own mummy and is waiting to return it to be a hero.The next morning, McCadden and Susie discover the bracelet crystal has something inside. It looks like an electrical diagram. The same pattern was on a piece of material they found with the scroll in the sarcophagus. They ask Jack Parker to examine the crystal and the diagram and he agrees they do look like a wiring schematic. McCadden sends Susie to the Library to do some research. When she arrives, the floor is empty. The mummy is outside. He's attracted to the crystal Susie is wearing on her wrist. He follows her inside and chases her around various floors. She escapes into an elevator and manages to get outside on the roof. She notices it glowing and pulsating. She tries to remove it, but is unsuccessful. The mummy reaches out for the crystal while she is trying to descend a ladder. He gets the crystal, but she falls off the ledge of the library building and is seriously hurt. Fortunately he did not touch her while retrieving the crystal. When she wakes in the hospital, Lt. Plummer is there to question her. She states that the mummy is alive and responsible for the deaths on campus, but he does not believe her. The mummy now has three of the five crystals he needs. He steals a transformer from the Archaeology Building to complete his project. McCadden and Parker find mummy wrappings where the transformer was, and the X-Ray films that Sharpe hid. They confront Sharpe with the evidence. He initially denies any knowledge, then comes clean and tells his story. He still has one crystal left, but admits the remaining one he gave to Sherri. Parker realizes that his girlfriend, Jennie is Sherri's roommate and she is in danger. McCadden now has the fifth crystal. Sharpe tells Parker his girlfriend left it home in the bathroom. Parker rushes over to the house, as does the mummy. McCadden heads for the Reactor Building. The mummy retrieves his fourth crystal, but does not injure Jennie. McCadden notices the mummy's improvised transmitter and adds his crystal to the mechanism. Just then Rossmore, Serrano, and Capt. Willoughby walk in. The mummy arrives at the Reactor Building with crystal number four. He moves McCadden's crystal to the correct location and adds the fifth. The system fires up and the mummy transforms into an alien with large black eyes, and a small nose and mouth. Serrano orders Willoughby to shoot it, but McCadden steps in front of the alien to protect it and is hit by the bullet for his trouble. He is hit in the arm and collapses at the alien's feet. It is now glowing and reaches out with his hand to touch McCadden's hand. They grasp each other's hand and the two disappear, leaving only the glowing crystal that was in the mummy's chest. Serrano races over to retrieve the glowing crystal. He screams and holds up his charred hand. It is burned like all the others that were touched by the fungus or the mummy. The movie concludes with the phrase, "To be Continued."

Review: I don't know why, but I found this super-cheesy story of a mummy terrorizing a college campus a lot more entertaining than I should have.
Sure, the acting and effects are horrid, but I thought the story was good for this kind of movie.
Time Walker isn't really a bad movie at all.I really liked the very beginning with the planets and how the prolog was presented.
It was a different mummy film with a different story.The effects were really good especially the crystals in the mummy/alien's device.The music by Richard Band was very good.I really don't know why people dislike this film.The from of the video box is really cool and the film is from Charter Entertainment but the box itself looks very much like CBS Fox box.If you are able to find Time Walker and haven't seen it before then get it because its out of print and its worth it in My opinion!Check it out!.
This not-very-good mummy-alien flick does feature a cornucopia of your favorite movie stars like BEN MURPHY ("Riding With Death"!), Bob Random ("Village of the Giants"!), Darwin Joston (Napolean in "Assault on Precinct 13"!), Austin Stoker (Bishop in "Assault on Precinct 13"!) as Dr. Ken Melrose, Nina Axelrod ("Motel Hell"), Shari Belafonte-Harper (who was a voice on "Rick Moranis in Gravedale High"!!!), Clint Young ("Rape Squad", "Switchblade Sisters"), and best of all, Pathmark pitchman JAMES KAREN ("Poltergiest", "Return of the Living Dead")!The plot is this: A priceless sarcophagus has been recovered in King Tut's tomb.
One loathsome, video-game loving student steals some diamond-type-thingees from the sarcophagus, sending the mummy on a poorly planned killing spree to get them back.
For some reason, no one can catch a glimpse of the slow-moving, glowing mummy as it lumbers from killing to killing on the college campus.This movie isn't very good.
The party scene with a bunch of obnoxious students dressed as mummys is also grating, and all James Karen does is mope and yell at Ben Murphy.
"Time Walker" is a solid "B," with bad acting, unncecessary gore, and some really cheesy special effects.Still, I have to say I liked the movie, even if it is just late night video fare.
I can boldly state that because I had actually seen it in the movie theaters when it came out, and on MST.
Ben Murphy steals a mummy from Egypt which turns out to be an alien which one of his students accidentally brings back to life.
This movie was filmed at Cal State University Northridge, where I studied anthropology myself, and I doubt that any of my professors would have any of these idiots as students.
A mega dose of x-rays brings the mummy to life, and it begins its search for some crystals that were removed from the sarcophagus.
But this is no ordinary mummy, oh no, this is actually an alien!The main problems with Time Walker is the slow pace and lack of gore.
The ending is very cheesy, as the mummy reveals himself to actually be an alien (someone wearing a ridiculous mask) and then disappears to the stars, and the fateful words "To be continued..." appear on the screen.
But if you want to know how a mummy, ancient diamonds, green dust that turns into flesh-devouring fungus, a blue-skinned alien with big black eyes and a college campus tie in all together, then you might want to consider watching TIME WALKER.
The mummy prowling the campus provides a couple of nice and creepy shots, but his green-colored POV vision was a bit cheesy.
I would like to say that this film was quite a good movie however i am somewhat disappointed with the fact that in ended saying to be continued but a sequel was never made i mean i know the film was old and probably done on a low budget but i think it is still worthy of show in what happens next and I'm sure their are some people out their that would agree with me and probably a lot that wont but like i say each to their own i do respect other peoples opinions on the film as i hope people will respect what i have written reguarding this sci-fi movie.
i would also recommend watching the movie within the rock and even though its an old one its good for gore fans so try and see it..
I've seen the movie, got to admit that the ending left me feeling a little puzzled....
See, I agree that there are *some* movies that, although bad, could actually be sort of interesting to watch if you take away Joel and the bots.But this film isn't one of them.
The worst aspects of this movie are: the acting, the manner in which they attempt to create suspense and tension (but only achieve boredom and apathy), and the incidental music.Close after in "badness" are the special effects and the plot.
To my knowledge, there are *no* really good aspects to this film...Oh wait, I got one: the "TV's Frank Home Shopping Network" at the end of the Mystie episode wouldn't have been possible if it had not been inspired by the artifact in the movie..
This film had something almost going for it as at times the movie held my interest even with the gang from Mystery Science Theater 3000 riffing it.
It held my interest enough that I may actually want to see this film in an uncut state as this one not only got the MST3K edits, but also looks like another casualty of that video company that would get older movies and repackage them with either a new generic title screen (this one and Marooned in Space) or they would play an entirely different film during the opening credits (Pod People and Cave Dwellers).
In the end, it is still probably pretty bad though as there were aspects of the film that were interesting and it had some good effects, but it had a horrible setting and completely idiotic plot points.
Well, a strange fungus is found with the mummy and an idiot who finds a secret compartment of things that look like diamonds and steals them.
He X-rays the mummy a couple of times and this awakens the fungus which is very deadly to the touch and the most interesting aspect of said film.
A combination of your classic Mummy movie mixed with your typical 80's slasher fare.Throw an alien in to the mix and you get Time walker.The execution wasn't anything new but I thought the genre melding plot was pretty original.Not a bad movie IMO.Above average 80's semi slasher,semi sci-fi movie.Ben Murphy was fine as the lead.The rest of the acting was so so.But if your a fan of 80's horror movies like me,especially slasher movies,then you should have no problem looking past that.I wonder what the planned sequel was.They must have had one in mind since they ended it with that ambiguous to be continued ending..
What a turkey if you see when it was made, in the middle of the slasher era and this has really nothing to offer, the effects used when people touches the fungus is ridiculous and the mummy itself didn't look scary at all, and towards the end when the mummy shows it's real face you will laugh again.
A strange mummy is discovered in the tomb of King Tut, apparently having been overlooked by Howard Carter the first time around.
Turns out the mummy is an alien, and he needs those crystals to get back to his own planet.
TV version had cut the last 5-10 minutes from the film and changed the ending, which lost its perspective.I would however, like to see if the sequel has been produced, by Video Guild - apparently they have bought the rights to this one.
Horrific acting combined with a pathetic "King Tut as the mummy" plot and dialog from a poorly stocked vending machine, this stunk to high heaven.The only actor that I recognized at the time was a TV actor from a rip-off of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. His performance seemed forced, like somebody was pointing a shotgun off-camera with a sign that said "act or else." I strongly recommend this to anyone constructing a "worst movie" list.In all fairness to the crew who put this together, I hold no ill will.
A really bad movie, but when it's called "Being From Another Planet" and becomes a Mystery Science Theater 3000 experiment, it's a classic.MST3K roasts this movie till it's well done, and that's the only way to watch it.
This is my favorite MST3K episode; the Pete Duel and "Alias Smith and Jones" jokes fly as Ben Murphy and his college students are chased by a "mummy" looking for the magical crystals stolen from his sarcophagus.The movie itself is written and acted in a way that would put anyone or thing into a catatonic state for 3,000 years.
Here's a tip for you; if you get the idea you're watching a bad movie, you probably are.
You only have so many minutes in your life; don't let movies like "Time Waster" devour any of them..
The only payoff of the MST3K is the end credits where they say it was the worst movie ever.The author himself claims that E.T. was a ripoff of this movie, but I think that Time Walker (Being from Another Planet) is a ripoff of E.T. and written much better.Other than the lacking plot line, the acting is simply horrible.
Flicks like STUDENT BODIES, SLAUGHTER HIGH, UNBREAKABLE and CURSE 3 come to mind.This sci-fi flick centers on a missing mummy brought to California by Professor Ben Murphy.
With a mysterious green ooze emitting from the sarcophagus, Murphy thinks he has stumbled upon an otherworldy life form and not some Egytpian mummy.STORY: $$$ (The story isn't anything special and there really isn't any moral to the movie.
A mummy from outer space is buried in King Tut's tomb over 2,000 years ago.
He is let out of the tomb in California, and as he tries to find his way home, he leaves slim covered bodies all over a college campus and community.Cast members are: Ben Murphy, Nina Axelrod, Kevin Brophy, Annie Barbierei and Shari Belafonte..
I've probably seen more of this from the Best Brains' treatment than of the film in its own,un-touched product,but what I saw of it un-touched,I can honestly say that it's the kind of movie that would ELICIT a wise-ass,ripping reaction from any viewer.A multi-millenia aged Mummy is un-earthed and finds its way onto an un-specific college campus,where it proceeds to terrorize the denizens searching for jewels that have been stolen from it.
Of course,there are ulterior reasons for the Mummy's quest and,as per any show of this ilk,there are "experts" and at least one attractive young lady who are in on(or in the way of)the pursuit.Featuring a fading Ben Murphy("Alias Smith and JOnes" and the short-lived '80s big idea show "Lottery!"),veteran character actors Kevin Brophy and Nina Aexlrod and a then-unknown model-actress named Shari Belafonte,not to mention a slough of cheap special effects(even for 1982),this movie probably doesn't need any "extra" stuff,but you might want it anyway..
It had a simple idea, a mad scientist forces a guy to watch horrible, mind-numbingly bad movies to see which one will make the young man crack.
TIME WALKER(know as BEING FROM ANOTHER PLANET,for the MST3k episode) is one of their best..
If I remember correctly, after watching it the MST3K group said that it was worse than any other movie they had ever seen except for "The Castle of Fu Manchu" and that is was AS BAD AS that movie.
Like Joel says in the end: "This movie sucks!!"This has everything: bad acting, horrible dialogue, special effects by the local high school cinema club, and much more crap.
You won't be seeing green after viewing this pathetic tripe of a movie.Oh and watch out for the fungus.
Mummy's never really scared me.And this one definitely wasn't scary.I first saw this on MST3K years ago,then I saw it again the regular version.Wow!What a boring movie.Bland characters,stupid monster,bad plot.The only way I'd recommend seeing this is to see the mistied version..
"Time Walker" starts out iffy, gets worse, then when it just starts to get interesting...IT'S OVER!Sorry if I sound a little hard on this one, but have you seen this movie?
Just watch in desperation as the words "To Be Continued..." come up and the end credits begin.This is bad beyond belief, even Ben Murphy can't save it (and he's usually pretty reliable, or at least WAS).
Don't watch the movie on its own.For the record, Bill Mumy - whose last name rhymes with roomy, not mummy - has a band..
This is in fact one of the dumbest movies ever featured on "Mystery Science Theater 3000".
The main problem with this film is that there is no reason in the least for the mummy to be an alien.
To make things even worse, there are these stupid mummy puns throughout the whole movie.
Time Walker (1982) * 1/2 (out of 4)King Tut's tomb is open and inside a mummy is discovered.
The mummy is taken back to a college campus where Professor McCadden (Ben Murphy) tries to find out more history about it but one student steals six jewels that were located inside the tomb.
This here brings the mummy back to life and it sets out for revenge but there's a twist to his story.TIME WALKER isn't a very memorable movie, although there are a few interesting ideas scattered throughout its running time.
I will say that the mummy looks pretty good, although he certainly needed more action.The performances aren't the greatest either but they're not nearly as bad as they could have been.
The best thing going for the film is the fact that the twist involves the mummy actually being an alien.
The deal with the stolen jewels wasn't all that original but the alien twist is something that works but sadly it happens at the end of the picture.TIME WALKER is of mild interest to fans of mummy movies but others will want to avoid..
The story is a mess, despite an interesting and ambitious premise (involving a mysterious, if dangerous green fungus and a disappearing mummy on campus) with a lame ending (though it's not really one) that only cheapens the overall affect (sequel on mind, but the lame TV show cop out --- "To be continued").
Naturally, the mummy comes back to life and shambles about the college campus, offing dipstick students with its lethal fungus touch as it tries to find the five glowing crystals it needs to go home.Sluggishly paced, woodenly acted, poorly written, and flatly directed, "Time Walker" follows the basic pattern of many other then fashionable academia-set kill-the-collegians slash'n'gash movies.
Well, it had been three thousand years, after all!) and started lurching around off camera looking for some ridiculous looking crystals that the idiot student who had irradiated the sarcophagus stole from it(larcenous as well as stupid.Did Murphy hand pick these guys?).
Also, they have a fun cast including Ben Murphy as the Prof, Darwin Joston as a cop, Austin Stoker as a doctor and James Karen as the sneaky head of the school.
Try this wacky premise on for size: when a mummy discovered inside the tomb of King Tut is brought back to a university, it turns out to actually be an alien, which is soon brought back to life by an X-ray overdose.
Well, this pisses off the "mummy" who embarks on a murderous rampage to retrieve the crystals, while the heroic archaeologist / professor Douglas McCadden (Ben Murphy) tries to figure out what's going on.
Good Story, Bad Cast, No `The End'.
This B-movie is not so bad as IMDB User Rating indicates: it has a good story, a bad cast and poor special effects.
The best you can say about it is that it helped a bunch of B-to-Z level actors make their condo payments, that Sherry Belafonte-Harper was fairly cute, and that both the director of photography and the soundtrack composer worked really hard to pump up the watch-ability of this movie with a lot of extra jiving and filling.Poor Ben Murphy slogs along as best he can here, trying to make the audience (all 4 or us) believe that he is an archaeologist.
God only knows how hard "Time Walker" would have been to watch if he hadn't at least given the movie his agreeable screen presence.
And Belafonte-Harper actually has some on camera charisma, but the movie doesn't seem to know what to do with her - she seems to be in, but not of, the film.
The movie ends with Murphy's character teleporting off with the mummy to an unknown fate (good riddance) and the dean's assistant screaming into the camera as left-over space slime eats his hand.
A Mummy goes after college students (one is topless, so I see how the T&A fans may have wanted it, but it is even too short to really justify that pretense) in search of crystals that appear to be light bulbs.
Should you want to watch this movie, I would recommend that version since it at least has an ending.In 1992 (about 10 years after it released), Mystery Science Theater used it in one of their episodes and finally it got what it deserved - a funny soundtrack.I did not see the MST 3K episode when it aired, and only learned of its treatment of this show after MST3K was off the air, so for two decades Time Walker was my all-time, worst ever movie.
It had such a bad plot that it didn't even have an ending until one was slapped together to make it a TV movie.
On the mummy is a green fungus, that for some reason, really likes X-rays.
The mummy, who wasn't dead but was an alien, goes around collecting these gems and accidentally killing people with the fungus.