Line #23 Film/TimeWalker


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2	[[caption-width-right:500:Gimme back my crystals, or I'll go tell my [[{{Pun}} mummy]].]]
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4	A 1982 horror movie starring Ben Murphy and featuring Shari Belafonte-Harper.
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6	A sarcophagus containing a {{Mummy}} is discovered in Egypt and brought back to a university for study. A student finds crystals inside and steals them to sell to other students. Meanwhile, an overdose of x-rays revives the mummy and unleashes a lethal fungus. The mummy goes on a killing spree in search of the stolen crystals. But is it really a mummy?
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8	For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, shown under the alternative SpoilerTitle [[spoiler:''Being From Another Planet'']], please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E05BeingFromAnotherPlanet episode recap page]].
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10	!!This film has the examples of:
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12	* AllJustADream: Scene of the mummy [[AxeBeforeEntering busting through the door]] to [=McCadden=]'s office is revealed to be a dream when Susie wakes him up.
13	* AmputationStopsSpread: When one student makes a mistake of touching the fungus on the sarcophagus, he is hospitalized and his hand has to be amputated.
14	* AntiVillain:
15	** The mummy just wants its crystals back. It is still rather uncaring about the damage it causes.
16	** Related, the boy who stole the crystals in the first place. He had no idea the mummy would come back to life and hunt down its property so roughly.
17	* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Seranno]], at the end, tries to grab [[spoiler:a crystal the mummy/alien had left behind, and gets his hand eaten by fungus]].
18	* BodyHorror: Don't turn an x-ray machine on someone infected by alien fungus, for it only makes it spread faster.
19	* FesteringFungus: The mummy and his sarcophagus are both infected with a fungus that rapidly destroys human tissue. [[spoiler:The final shot of the film is Seranno screaming as he's devoured alive by it after touching one of the alien's crystals.]]
20	* HateSink: Sharpe, Rossmore and Seranno. Rossmore, in particular, is more concerned with preserving the college's (and his own) image in the media than with the fact that there seems to be a murderer about. Seranno, for his part, is perfectly willing to frame a man he knows to be innocent, for a crime he knows didn't happen, just to advance his own career.
21	* HeroicSacrifice: A rather odd example: upon learning [[spoiler:the mummy/alien's true nature]], [=McCadden=] ''takes a bullet'' for it when the other characters try to shoot it (it only hits him in the shoulder so he lives), even though the creature has already killed multiple people and there's basically no reason for him to care about it, let alone put his life on the line for it.
22	* HurricaneOfPuns: Many mummy puns are thrown around in the costume party.
23	* KarmaHoudini [[spoiler:The mummy/alien just teleports back home once it gets its crystals. Oddly, the film acts like this is a good thing, even though the mummy murdered a couple of people just for the crime of having the crystals it wanted (which they didn't even know the mummy needed) as well as murdering a janitor who didn't even have any crystals and was just in his way.]]
24	* MistakenForAnImposter: On his way to a costume party, Peter, who is dressed as a mummy, scares two lovebirds making out in a park. When the real mummy shows up later, it is mistaken for Peter pulling the same stunt again.
25	* MummyWrap: The scroll found with the mummy reveals that it was carrying the deadly fungus on it even in AncientEgypt, and was mummified alive in order to contain it.
26	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: [[spoiler:A mummified alien, in this case.]]
27	* OhCrap: The doctor who belatedly discovers that x-ray radiation is what triggers the fungus' growth. He quickly tries to call the hospital to warn them not to x-ray a fungus victim but is too late.
28	* PowerCrystal: The crystals that were in mummy's sarcophagus [[spoiler:are part of a device that rejuvenates and transports it.]]
29	* PsychicPowers: The mummy is shown to have telekinetic powers when it levitates one of the crystals into its hand. Several people would still be alive [[ForgotAboutHisPowers had the mummy used it more often]].
30	* RealEventFictionalCause: It's implied that the fungus was the cause of Tutankhamun's early death.
31	* TheReveal: [[spoiler:The mummy is [[TheGreys an alien]] that was [[AncientAstronauts visiting Earth]] in the past.]]
32	* SequelHook: [[spoiler:The alien transports itself and [=McCadden=] to somewhere]] in the ending, and the film ends with a ToBeContinued. The sequel never materialized.
33	* TakingTheBullet: After the mummy [[spoiler:reveals itself to be an alien]], [=McCadden=] takes a bullet meant for it in his shoulder.
34	* TemptingFate: At the climax Seranno tells [=McCadden=] that [=McCadden=] is about to go to jail and that Seranno will soon "get [[AssholeVictim exactly what I deserve]]!"
35	* TeacherStudentRomance: Prof. [=McCadden=] and his student Susie are shown to be romantically involved, which professors and students really aren't supposed to be.
36	* ZombieGait: Averted. This mummy is really spry for a 3000-year-old corpse, [[spoiler:which is justified by its undetermined alien abilities]]. It still performs a traditional MenacingStroll for dramatic purposes when it confronts Susie.
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