EDITOR’S NOTE: The Mummy’s Revenge was on Chiller Theater on June 23, 1979 at 1 a.m.; April 5, 1980 and June 12, 1982.

Directed by Carlos Aured (Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll) and written by its star, Paul Naschy, La venganza de la momia is exactly what I wanted it to be.

Pharaoh Amenhotep (Naschy) and his lover Amarna (Rina Ottolina) have become beyond depraved, torturing and murdering anyone they want to defile. Anchaff (Fernando Sí¡nchez Polack), a priest who wants to make things more moral, drugs him and buries him alive. He isn’t mummified, so his soul and corpse won’t cross over and he will be unable to kill anyone else.

Nathan Stark (Jack Taylor) and his wife Abigail (Maria Silva) find his tomb and bring his sarcophagus to London so that it can be looked at by Sir Douglas Carter (Eduardo Calvo). What they don’t know is that they’re followed by Assad Bey (Naschy) and Senofed (Helga Liné), two followers of the pharaoh who want to use the blood of women to bring back their ruler. Also: Carter’s daughter Helen (Ottoline) looks like Amarna, so she will be given her soul so that Amenhotep can murder and rule.

This movie looks gorgeous and Naschy takes from Universal and Hammer while making a movie filled with gorgeous ladies and lots of murder. I wish that he’d made just as many of these movies as his El Hombre Lobo films. The mummy itself is frightening and it just plain works.

This was part of the Nightmare Theater package, as well as Death Smiles On a Murderer, Marta, Maniac Mansion, Night of the Sorcerers, Fury of the Wolfman, Hatchet for the Honeymoon, Horror Rises from the Tomb, Dear Dead Delilah, Doomwatch, Bell from Hell, Witches Mountain and The Witch).

I can’t even imagine just turning on the TV and this movie playing. Chiller Theater knew how to make people happy.