Britische Archäologen und ihr amerikanischer Investor versenden den Sarkophag einer ägyptischen Mumie nach London, aber jemand hat das Amulett, um die Mumie wiederzubeleben, die dann alle tö... Alles lesenBritische Archäologen und ihr amerikanischer Investor versenden den Sarkophag einer ägyptischen Mumie nach London, aber jemand hat das Amulett, um die Mumie wiederzubeleben, die dann alle töten wird, die ihr Grab gestört haben.Britische Archäologen und ihr amerikanischer Investor versenden den Sarkophag einer ägyptischen Mumie nach London, aber jemand hat das Amulett, um die Mumie wiederzubeleben, die dann alle töten wird, die ihr Grab gestört haben.
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It has a rather talky first half but the verbiage is slightly interesting and the "Mummy as Sideshow" is a new take. The second half kicks into gear and moves quite energetically, well as energetic as a Mummy can be. He seems determined to wreak the necessary havoc and does so quite brutally.
In the finale things really come together with a Plot twist and an exciting chase through the sewers. Overall, this is mid-range Hammer and that is almost always better than the Studio's contemporaries. Definitely worth a view for Hammer, Horror, and B-Movie Fans.
Set at the turn of the last century, three archaeologists unearth the tomb of a crown prince of Egypt who legend has it was slain by his brother a few thousand years BC. But someone with reasons of his own to finance the expedition has used some ancient spells to revive the dead and the prince is out settling a few scores against those who've violated his sleep.
Terrance Morgan stars in this film and he's the fellow with the Dorian Gray situation. He's got an agenda himself working here at it involves putting an end to his Dorian Gray like existence and being reunited in eternity with his true love. In that sense a leaf is borrowed from the classic original Mummy film that starred Boris Karloff.
Which happens to be my favorite horror film of all time so every other mummy film just pales in comparison. Still The Curse Of The Mummy's Tomb has enough on its own merits to rate some comparison and Terrence Morgan who is best remembered on the big screen for playing Laertes to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet does a fine job here as a most tortured soul.
I usually try to avoid "Star Quality" as a virtue of film, but Hammer proved it...
The plot is that an archaeological team uncovers the lost tomb of a dead Egyptian prince. The mummy is reanimated and begins to pick off the people who opened his tomb. (Cliche). The twist is that his brother has been cursed to live forever, and wants his brother to kill him, after he took care of those people who desecrated the tomb, of course..
(Now, you'd think that if you were tired of eternal life, you wouldn't focus on snuffing the bit players so much.)
Especially nutty is the evil brother seducing the girlfriend of the head archaeologist....Now you would think that if you are so anxious to die, you wouldn't worry about such side issues...
It's okay to watch, but not great. YOu can see why whoever owns the rights to Hammer films put this on the "collection disk" grouping.
This is the second Hammer Horror movie from "The Mummy" franchise and this time the star power has taken quite a dip. No longer did they have the presence of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and that really showed.
It tells the story of a rich American who plans on making the opening of a mummy's sarcophagus a tourist event in order to make money but oddly enough things don't go quite as planned.
The film looks great, the performances though spotty are mostly passable and the Hammer Horror brand of musical score is present. It's all very colour by numbers stuff, but that's okay.
Sadly the writing is inconsistent, some is poor and some is baffling especially when it comes to character development.
Passable stuff but again this underlines why though I appreciate Hammer Horror I've never exactly been blown away by it.
The Good:
Looks great
The Bad:
The absence of the likes of Cushing/Lee is very damaging
The bulletproof bandages have returned!
Mummy actually looks worse
No character consistency
Awful cover art
Things I Learnt From This Movie:
Belly dancing is sexy or awkward, never anything inbetween
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- WissenswertesDuring the Egyptian flashback scenes, Franz Reizenstein's theme from "Hammer"'s original "Die Rache der Pharaonen (1959)" can be heard.
- PatzerDuring one of the 19the century scenes, there is a modern lit exit sign visible over a doorway. Those exit signs had not been invented yet.
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Alexander King: [to a belly dancer] You ever learn to do that to ragtime, give me a call... we'll make a fortune!
- VerbindungenEdited from Die letzte Nacht der Titanic (1958)
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