Review of The Mummy (1959) by Sgt. C — 06 Jan 2014
While perhaps not as best known as the other early Hammer classics ,Director Terence Fisher pulls out all the stops here and gives us a version of the Mummy which I feel is better than the Universal versions of the 1930s.
The story is or course the old Dont open the Mummys Tomb bit as Christopher Lees undead bandaged high preist returns to wreak revenge against Peter Cushings dig team.
The film has some truly astonishing makeup effects as Lees mummy is one of the most terryfying monsters seen on the screen up to that point.
Cushing is excellent as he always was and as I have said on here before many times director Terence Fisher was a master crafts man in this field and his building of menace and using Character actors to defuse some of the horror really shows what a great director he really was.
This review of The Mummy (1959) was written by Sgt. C on 06 Jan 2014.
The Mummy has generally received positive reviews.
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