Synopsis
One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries ago, has been brought to life by the power of the ancient gods and his sole purpose is to destroy those responsible for the desecration of the sacred tomb. But Isobel, wife of one of the explorers, resembles the beautiful princess, forcing the speechless and tormented monster to defy commands and abduct Isobel to an unknown fate.
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Cast
- Peter CushingJohn Banning
- Christopher LeeKharis, the Mummy
- Yvonne FurneauxIsobel Banning / Princess Ananka
- Eddie ByrneInspector Mulrooney
- Felix AylmerStephen Banning
- Raymond HuntleyJoseph Whemple
- George PastellMehemet Bey
- Michael RipperPoacher
- George WoodbridgePolice Constable
- Harold GoodwinPat
Recommendations
- 80
Time Out
Its qualities are almost entirely abstract and visual, with colour essential to its muted, subtle imagery. 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. - 75
Slant Magazine
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. - 65
Slashfilm
If you loved Universal’s Mummy but wished it had more Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, here you go. - 60
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. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
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. - 50
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.
