{"id":35843,"date":"2021-10-02T00:18:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T04:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=35843"},"modified":"2021-09-18T07:18:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T11:18:35","slug":"under-wraps-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/02\/under-wraps-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"Under Wraps (1997)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I don\u2019t know why but \u201cUnder Wraps\u201d is one of those DCOM\u2019s that slipped right by me as a kid. I loved the DCOM\u2019s when I was a kid and I still watch them to this day if they interest me. Despite having seen most of them, \u201cUnder Wraps\u201d never crossed paths with me. That\u2019s a shame since Greg Beeman\u2019s film is pretty much peak Disney Channel TV movie entertainment. There are cameos from Disney channel stars, a reliable child cast, and a lovable monster. There\u2019s also the Halloween back drop that completes the full circle turning the movie in to a mini-Halloween classic.<\/p>\n

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A local museum curator and grump, Mr. Kubat (Ed Lauter), dies and three twelve year old children Marshall, Gilbert and Amy decide to see what weird stuff the old guy had in his basement. They find more than they bargained for when there\u2019s a mummy named Harold lurking in his sarcophagus. As he ventures out from his confines, he befriends the trio, all of whom race to return to him to his resting place by midnight on Halloween or he will never find his long lost love.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder Wraps\u201d is one of the very first DCOM to hit the small screen and it\u2019s considered something of a lost classic that doesn\u2019t get nearly enough attention. And it\u2019s shocking considering it\u2019s slightly edgier than a lot of the other Disney original Halloween-centric movies that would follow. It\u2019s not many kids movies that begin on a fake out of a low-fi horror movie insinuating a gruesome death. The collective cast of Mario Yedida, Adam Wylie, and Clara Bryant are very good, working well together and against Fagerbakke.<\/p>\n

Bill Fagerbakke (a few years before \u201cSpongebob Squarepants\u201d) pulls double duty as the film\u2019s lovable mummy Harold and potential step dad to Marshall, named Ted. Fagerbakke looks pretty neat in his make up and suit, allowing him to be creepy, but also kind of lovable in a Frankenstein\u2019s monster kind of way. Fagerbakke is the film\u2019s real star (nyuk nyuk!), working wonderfully through his heavy make up and ghoulish visage, and he allows for a sympathetic movie monster through the very end. I\u2019m still partial to \u201cHalloweentown,\u201d but \u201cUnder Wraps\u201d is a fun and unique concept that celebrates the horror lover in all of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t know why but \u201cUnder Wraps\u201d is one of those DCOM\u2019s that slipped right by me as a kid. I loved the DCOM\u2019s when I was a kid and I still watch them to this day if they interest me. Despite having seen most of them, \u201cUnder Wraps\u201d never crossed paths with me. That\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,17],"tags":[71,219,1291,290,340,349,441,477,580,2794,1130],"class_list":["post-35843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","category-tv-tomb","tag-adventure","tag-comedy","tag-dcom","tag-disney","tag-family","tag-fantasy","tag-halloween","tag-horror","tag-kids","tag-mummies","tag-tv-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35845,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35843\/revisions\/35845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}