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The Mummy

1959

Terence Fisher

Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne ...

6.2

1,942

Horror. Adventure Three British archeologists discover the grave of an important Egyptian female priest who has died about four millenia ago. But when they open it a bad curse falls on them for having woken up the mighty guard of the grave who was buried with the priest.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Christopher Lee looks tremendous in the title role, smashing his way through doorways and erupting from green, dream-like quagmires in really awe-inspiring fashion."	POS
United States	Chuck Bowen Slant	"'The Mummy' is one of Hammer’s classics, cleverly fusing the human pathos of the original Universal film with the creature-centric physicality of the sequels the latter inevitably yielded."	POS
United States	SlashFilm	"If you loved Universal’s Mummy but wished it had more Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, here you go."	POS
United States	The New York Times	"For a superior version of a nearly identical horror yarn, with a little style and imagination, catch the 1932 Boris Karloff version of The Mummy now floating around on television. The new one just lumbers."	NEU
United States	TV Guide	"This remake really can't compare with the 1932 original and Lee is given no chance to flesh out his character in the haunting manner that Boris Karloff did, but for fairly standardized movie horror, this flick isn't half bad."	POS
United Kingdom	The Guardian	"Alternately corny and magical, scary and comic, naive and perverse, elegant and clumsy, The Mummy is always stylish and atmospheric, and Cushing and Lee became enduring world stars."	POS

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