Review of The Mummy (1959) by Kurt B — 24 Jun 2010

Yet again the Mummy has been accidently resurrected by breaking the curse on his tomb except this time the Mummy has to be brought to England in a crate by a servant of the gods. Other differences include the Mummy must destroy all the people who entered the tomb and broke the seal and also the famous scene in which the villain has his tongue cut out during "mummification while being alive!" later to be reused on the 1999 version.

Christopher Lee certainly makes the Mummy his own and masters all the movements that you would imagine an undead man might posses. What's essentially different about Christopher lee's Mummy to Boris's is that he gave the Mummy a conscience like he only wanted to be with his bird and didn't really want to kill all these people. Our leading man comes in the shape of Peter Cushing whose performance is excellent, but it's always the same when Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee are in the same film. To me it's like the best duo possible.

If there are any faults with the film the only ones I can think of are the film seemed a little limited to studio and not even stock footage was used but saying that the settings such as the camp where the very realistic and sparse.