Boasting plenty of classically cruddy dialogue ("Listen you pervert - if you don't get out of here I'll kick your bandaged butt!"), this wonderfully wretched stinker starts out pretty silly and becomes more increasingly ridiculous as it goes along, reaching an uproarious apex of all-out stultifying stupidity during its absurdly overwrought and sentimental conclusion. 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.
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. Murphy takes the mummified interstellar stiff back to the California Institute of Sciences. Archeology professor Ben Murphy discovers the coffin of the mysterious Ankh-Venharis (that's "Noble Traveler" to you and me) in King Tutankhaman's Egyptian tomb. It gives the movie the ruthless simplicity of a campfire tale.Along with the dreary big budget bomb "The Awakening" and the enjoyably idiotic Italian splatter-fest "Dawn of the Mummy," this deliciously dreadful sci-fi/horror alien mummy abomination tried (and failed) to inject some much-needed juice into the all dried up mummy fright feature genre. Here, in the first and best of the series, he just kills. Starting with "Halloween II" - a high-quality Golden Age slasher in its own right - the movies take tentative steps towards defining Michael as a character with some kind of actual agenda. (The movie actually credits him as "The Shape," as if he's something more primitively eerie than any actual person could be.) Michael kills babysitters and their boyfriends, and it's as simple as that. As babysitter Laurie Strode will eventually say, he's the boogeyman. And his motives are so simple, they're practically nonexistent.
Now, after years in a sanitarium, he's escaped and come back home. Years ago, a six-year-old Michael Myers stabbed his older sister to death on Halloween night.
Its characters, visuals, and score are all rightly legendary. "Halloween" wasn't the first slasher movie, but it remains the definitive slasher movie, the one that set the genre's rules in stone.
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