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Pharaoh’s Curse (1957) Archaeologists who've apparently never watched a mummy movie before completely ignore warnings not to disturb a cursed Egyptian tomb. Instead, they do just that, which irritates a cat statue and causes one of them to transform into a wrinkled vampiric mummy who... doesn't do much to be honest. It's kind of a slog. Credit where credit is due, though. It takes a particular type of talent to make an hour long movie feel like it's much, much longer.
TIL: In the Catholics are wonderfully weird category, Urbania's Chiesa dei Morti, or the Church of the Dead, has had 18 mummies on display behind its altar since 1833. The causes of their deaths were varied (crushed by a horse, died giving birth, stabbed at a dance, hung for stealing, etc.), but the cause of mummification was singular, traced to a particular mold that sucks moisture from corpses. The mummies are under the care of The Brotherhood of Good Death, a group founded during the Renaissance to provide free burial for the poor.
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