Review of Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971) by Bill T — 31 May 2010
Hammer's final foray into Egyptology and a brave stab at doing something else with the genre without an actual bandaged mummy. It's effectively an adaption of Bram Stoker's story 'The Jewel of Seven Stars' and though confusing at the start, this is probably because of director Seth Holt's death one week before completion, and the movie had to be taken over by Michael Carreras.
It does pull together in the end however to make it a chilling and quite gory later Hammer treat. As usual, a great cast of British character actors work well together including James Villiers, Hugh Burden, Rosalie Cruthchley and George Couloris and Andrew Keir fills in for Peter Cushing who left the production due to the death of his wife.
This review of Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971) was written by Bill T on 31 May 2010.
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb has generally received mixed reviews.
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