Review of The Mummy's Shroud (1967) by Stuart K — 23 Apr 2012
From Hammer, at the peak of their powers at that time, they created this horror-adventure based on a story by Hammer veteran Anthony Hinds and directed by Hammer regular John Gilling (The Plague of the Zombies (1966) and The Reptile (1966)), it should have been a good film, but it ends up being lop-sided and unsure of what it wants to be.
In the 1920's, it has a group of explorers looking for the tomb of the boy Pharaoh Kah-To-Bey (Toolsie Persaud), whose backstory is explained in a prologue. The expedition is led by Sir Basil Walden (Andre Morell) and Stanley Preston (John Phillips).
They find the tomb of Kah-To-Bey, and his manservant Prem (Dickie Owen) is mummified as well. Even though local Bedouin Hasmid (Roger Delgado) warns them against moving the bodies, they do so. Walden is bitten by a snake, and it drives him to a gibbering wreck while Preston ends up taking the credit for Walden's hard work, much to the anger of his son Paul Preston (David Buck) and Elizabeth (Elizabeth Sellars).
But Hasmid resurrects the Mummy of Prem as an act of revenge. It promises so much, but it plods along with it's dull adventure (shot in a quarry in England somewhere) and moments of quite uninspired horror which all comes too little too late.
For a Mummy film, it should be more epic, but this reeks of being cheap and nasty.
This review of The Mummy's Shroud (1967) was written by Stuart K on 23 Apr 2012.
The Mummy's Shroud has generally received mixed reviews.
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