Boris Karloff's second iconic monster for Universal is poised to shamble into San Francisco Bay Area theaters. Although the programmer-style sequels are interchangeable retreads - telling the exact same story over and over, beat-for-beat - the first movie is actually quite good. A superlative and subtle performance by Karloff (The Uncanny) making The Mummy all the better.
Victoria Noble is an unassuming librarian who's just been invited to a parallel universe that exists within NYC. She has yet to learn who is friend or foe and why she, but not others, is able to see another plane of existence.
