The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Mummy (1999)

Okay, I feel like this one is cheating a little bit, but when I tried to watch my first pick Netflix was flaking out so I was limited to the DVDs that were on hand in my sister's apartment. But it's a remake of a horror film and, while it amps up the action/adventure aspects, still has elements of horror so I'm counting it.

Live reactions:

• Arnold Vosloo is a handsome devil. I can see why Anck-su-Namun went for him.
• Though not why her torso makeup looks like scales.
• Why does she get to wear clothes when she's dead, but not when she was alive?
• What was it about Beni's previous abandonment that made you think he wouldn't shut you out in the cold, O'Connell?
• Shai-Hulud comes!
• Yes, let the cute one go. Leaving someone with the knowledge of Hamunaptra's location alive could never come back to bite you.
• The Mummy is the only film that's given me recurring nightmares. Of knocking over shelves in a library or bookstore.
• O'Connell cleans up very well. For a scoundrel.
• This is cursed. That is cursed.
• Goodbye, Beni.
• The Americans are certainly happy about the chance to play cowboy and shoot things.
• Yes, let the natives whose history you're destroying with your hamhanded treasure hunting run the risk of dying.
• Omid Djalili just read some Supernatural spoilers and decided to run into a wall and die.
• "Death will come on swift wings to whomsoever opens this chest." Let's open it.
• Arnold Vosloo isn't looking so handsome at the moment. He is gooey, but not in a fun sexual way.
• Fez guy has always confused me. He seems to care about knowledge, but he's hanging out with these cowboy treasure seekers and doesn't do anything useful.
• "No harm ever came from reading a book." Obviously she is unfamiliar with horror movies.
• A cat! My mortal enemy.
• Arnold Vosloo can suck me dry any time he wants.
• Though I'm going to have to insist that he not eat bugs while in my bed. That's just unacceptable behaviour.
• Fine, if Evy wants to kiss him so badly she can tag along too.
• Ah, the return of the burrowing flesh-eating scarabs. Those things are so creepy. But Jonathan survives it because he's not greedy comic relief brown guy.
• Manacles. Kinky.
• Oh, look, now some main characters are opening a thing underneath a statue. Fortunately, they're not extras so this one doesn't have a pressurized salt acid trap to melt their faces.
• One of the great things about the climax is that everyone gets their hero moment, including Jonathan.
• And then the incantation removes the ka, leaving only the messy mortal bits behind to be slain. IT ALL MAKES SENSE.
• Now...kiss.
• Death is only the beginning.

Post-movie postmortem: I've watched this movie so very many times and it's still fun. It's the perfect mix of action, adventure, romance, and, yes, horror. Maybe a bit too reliant on jump scares, but there's some genuinely horrific moments in there as well.

Five stars.