Time Walker (1982) * 1/2 (out of 4)King Tut's tomb is open and inside a mummy is discovered. The mummy is taken back to a college campus where Professor McCadden (Ben Murphy) tries to find out more history about it but one student steals six jewels that were located inside the tomb. This here brings the mummy back to life and it sets out for revenge but there's a twist to his story.TIME WALKER isn't a very memorable movie, although there are a few interesting ideas scattered throughout its running time. The film's biggest problem is the fact that it's rather tame and really doesn't fit what a horror film from this era was about. There's a brief bit of nudity and some mild violence but there's certainly nothing overly memorable here. I will say that the mummy looks pretty good, although he certainly needed more action.The performances aren't the greatest either but they're not nearly as bad as they could have been. The best thing going for the film is the fact that the twist involves the mummy actually being an alien. This is a rather interesting idea and it's really too bad that the entire screenplay wasn't built around this idea. The deal with the stolen jewels wasn't all that original but the alien twist is something that works but sadly it happens at the end of the picture.TIME WALKER is of mild interest to fans of mummy movies but others will want to avoid.

A combination of your classic Mummy movie mixed with your typical 80's slasher fare.Throw an alien in to the mix and you get Time walker.The execution wasn't anything new but I thought the genre melding plot was pretty original.Not a bad movie IMO.Above average 80's semi slasher,semi sci-fi movie.Ben Murphy was fine as the lead.The rest of the acting was so so.But if your a fan of 80's horror movies like me,especially slasher movies,then you should have no problem looking past that.I wonder what the planned sequel was.They must have had one in mind since they ended it with that ambiguous to be continued ending.

**CONTAINS SPOILERS** In 1982 I saw this in the theater as the second movie in a double-feature. So, my total cost for this movie was $0. I overpaid.The plot is terrible. NO one is going to believe that university professors will "mistakenly" find King Tut's tomb and a sarcophagus in it. From there, everything that happens makes even less sense. A Mummy goes after college students (one is topless, so I see how the T&A fans may have wanted it, but it is even too short to really justify that pretense) in search of crystals that appear to be light bulbs. THe mummy kills several (and after each kill, I found myself rooting for the mummy since fewer cast members meant we were getting closer to the end). The worst part, though,was the conclusion. After waiting for the movie to end, I was rewarded with a "To Be Continued." No, I'm not kidding. That really is how it ended in the theaters. Even the writer didn't know what to do with a "mummy gone wild." There is no sequel. The movie IS that bad.However, somewhere along the lines, someone must have decided it could be fodder for a "made-for-TV" level movie, so it was renamed "Being From Another Planet" and an extra 15 minutes or so were added to wrap up the ending. As you might expect, it is very hastily added, and the quality is lacking. Should you want to watch this movie, I would recommend that version since it at least has an ending.In 1992 (about 10 years after it released), Mystery Science Theater used it in one of their episodes and finally it got what it deserved - a funny soundtrack.I did not see the MST 3K episode when it aired, and only learned of its treatment of this show after MST3K was off the air, so for two decades Time Walker was my all-time, worst ever movie. It had such a bad plot that it didn't even have an ending until one was slapped together to make it a TV movie. After watching the MST3K version, though, I was able to laugh through it.If you like cheesy movies, watch this one with the robots on MST3K, or riff it yourself. Otherwise, save your time and avoid Time Walker.

I saw this film when it came out in the theater 23 years ago and I'm still mad about the $4.50 I paid and the precious 83 minutes of my life that I will never get back. If I remember correctly, after watching it the MST3K group said that it was worse than any other movie they had ever seen except for "The Castle of Fu Manchu" and that is was AS BAD AS that movie. If it were possible I would devote my life to creating a time machine just so I could go back in time and do whatever it took, including assassination, to ensure that this movie never got made. I'm amazed that it did not hit the 100 worst movies list, I can only assume that it's not there because not enough people have seen it and endured its awfulness. There are some bad movies that are entertaining in their badness, there are some bad movies that I have enjoyed watching just to laugh at them. This is not one of them, this is just plain bad from beginning to end.