Did you guys hear about the girl who got lost in King Tut's tomb?" quips an attendee at a mummy-themed frat party. "Nine months later, she was a mummy." Funny as that joke is, by the time it crops up in Time Walker, director Tom Kennedy has made it clear that mummies are no laughing matter. As the film opens, an earthquake has revealed a hidden chamber of King Tutankhamen's tomb, prompting a group of intrepid explorers to investigate. "There's bodies everywhere!" one exclaims, with a bit too much shock, given that he's investigating a crypt. Among the bodies is an elaborate coffin, which the team—led by graying TV heartthrob Ben Murphy—promptly returns to the esteemed California Institute of the Sciences. Once opened, the coffin reveals a mummy covered in a strange, fungus-like substance with a nasty tendency to devour the flesh of those who touch it. Undeterred in his quest to reveal yet another secret of King Tut's tomb, Murphy orders X-rays to be performed. But the operation is seemingly spoiled when an overzealous TA accidentally uses 10 times the normal dosage of radiation. This has an effect known, in scientific parlance, as "making the mummy rise from the dead." Soon, the ancient Egyptian is in ambling pursuit of some jewels stolen by a fraternity member who tried unsuccessfully to pawn them and, in frustration, began distributing them to his friends. Spurred by the well-publicized disappearance of Murphy's find, mummy-mania sweeps the CIS campus, prompting students to dress in mummy garb. This unfortunately gives the real mummy a natural camouflage as he stalks late-night DJ Shari Belafonte and hunts for his lost jewels, most of which are in the possession of scantily clad, promiscuous co-eds capable of producing high-volume screams. Eventually, even Flesh Gordon star Jason Williams is unable to stop the mummy, who, jewels in hand, ultimately sheds his rags, reveals himself as a space alien, and ascends to the heavens.
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