Christopher Lee, Felix Aylmer, Peter Cushing
Hammer Studios' greatest nemeses, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, once again square off in this reworking of Universal's The Mummy (with elements of The Mummy's Tomb and The Mummy'...( read more
) thrown in for good measure). Cushing stars as archeologist John Banning, whose dig for a lost tomb results in untold treasures but leaves his father a mumbling madman and marks the rest of the company for death. Lee is Kharis, a former high priest turned gauze-wrapped guardian of the tomb, a veritable Golem sent on a mission of vengeance by Mehemet Bey (George Pastell), a disciple of the ancient Egyptian god Osiris. The scenes at the archeological dig and the flashbacks to the ancient burial are stagebound and cheap looking, but Terence Fisher is back in familiar territory when the action relocates to the misty swamps and Victorian mansions of rural England. The towering, 6-foot-3-inch-tall Lee makes the most terrifying mummy to date. He covers ground in giant strides, smashes his way into rooms with heavy Frankensteinlike swipes of his arm, and takes shotgun blasts with barely a twitch--yet he melts from rage to calm at the sight of Banning's wife, Isobel (Yvonne Furneaux), a dead ringer for his dead Queen. The film is still most famous for it's tongue-removal scene, discreetly hidden from the camera but nevertheless shiver inducing. --Sean Axmaker
DVD Release Date: October 9, 2001
Stats: 144 reviews
Another epic horror story from Hammer. There's not much to say here that isn't already obvious (Lee and Cushing are great, the costumes and sets are stunning, etc and so forth) but this version of Universal classic will not disappoint. Horror fans are definitely urged to track ...( read more)
The 'Mummy' films made by Hammer were much duller than the 'Frankenstein' or 'Dracula' movies. This one starts slowly but finishes well, and Lee's make-up looks superb. Possibly one of Hammer's most attractively photographed movies.
Ive never been that big on The Mummy. But when you get Terence Fisher, Christoper Lee and Peter Cushing together its pretty safe to assume that what your going to watch is going to be no less than great. And great this one is. The sets, the lighting is all pure Hammer atmosphere...( read more)
This is the Hammer film version starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. It is apparently not based on the original Universal Mummy, but its sequels The Mummy's Hand and The Mummy's Tomb (which I have not seen). Mummy gets mad, mummy gets revenge. It was very typical Hammer, s...( read more)
well done chris lee and pete cushing. and awsome movie with great effects.
The best 'Mummy' film of all. Rehashes, yet surpasses all Universal's mummy versions.
Extremely cheesy, and not in a good way. It was slow and dragged on for a while.
Christopher Lee plays an incredibly sympathetic monster in this update of, what I think, is one of the more boring of the Universal creature features.
My favorite tale of, The Mummy. Lee conveys so much feeling in just his eyes....excellent!
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