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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
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MCT:July 9, 2008The 1950s remake of the Mummy from the 30s, (no review of the 30s one), is sppkoky for its day. A classic cult flick.
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MCT:March 30, 2008
You won't believe how hard I worked to see this movie (it took three tries from Netflix before I got a disc that actually worked, and the last time still required me to scrub the disc before my player would recognize it). I'm still a Hammer newbie, but The Mummy is one of my favorite Universal monster films, so I thought this might be a good place to start. I love Lee's characterization of the titular role, and Cushing is, as usual, a fine nemesis to ol' Christopher's embodiment of evil. But the colors looked garish, the dialogue struck me as stilted, and the sets looked like... well, sets. I never believed that I was anywhere other than on a soundstage. The ending is satisfying, but I still haven't seen the "jaw dropping on the floor" Hammer movie I eventually hope to find.
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MCT:March 22, 2008
Well this flim 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.
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MCT:June 3, 2007
This is one of the best early mummy movies, ever. Horror fans will love this vintage example, of how to scare the hell out of us.
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MCT:April 30, 2007Tradition- Every year at Halloween, I stay up until the wee hours of the morning watching the old flicks.
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MCT:April 22, 2007
Not as iconic or memorable as the Dracula Hammer flicks, but it's still just as well directed, written, and acted.
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and i want say to person made music in this filme you well done
really you are wenderful , player
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MCT:December 4, 2006When I was very young (about 4/5 yrs old circa 1975) on a Saturday night my Mum would wake me and my brother up at about 22.30 and the three of us would sit up drinking warm milk with sugar in it and watch these old B&W horror movies (in the dark for the extra spook factor. I can't remember exatly what films we used to watch as it was so long ago. Suffice to say this was probably one of them.
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