We have gone from the Transylvania vampires to the monsters of Germany. Now we enter the pyramids of Egypt with 1932's The Mummy starring the always lovable Frankenstein Boris Karloff.
During a British museum sponsored archaeological expedition to Egypt led by Sir Joseph Wimple (Arthur Bryan), the team discover a mummy and a highly built sarcophagus which holds the high priest Immotep played by Boris Karloff, who comes to life and walks into the desert night after being accidentally summoned from the dead. Ten years later a new expedition led by Sir Joseph's son Frank Wemble played by Dracula hero David Manners finds the tomb of Princess Anax and a moon immotep's lost love, but when the Mummy returns, no pun intended fully formed in human flesh and blood. He discovers his love's coffin being placed in a museum and kills anyone in his path. In order to revive her completely, Immotep requires Helen Grosvere (Zeta Joanne) to die for him in a ritual sacrifice so he can revive her and make her a living mummy like himself due to her being the reincarnation of an axon a moon.
Well this one is an interesting take. Obviously some of this plot very similar to the Brendan Fraser movies most notably the first 1999 film.
Which it is, but while i enjoy the remake. I gotta say that the original has a lot of greatness and glory on par with those films and is worth a high praise up there Dracula and Frankenstein. A lot of people seem to pass on the Mummy either for the remake or that compared to the other monsters is a tad weaker. But I beg to differ because I actually do love the original incarnation that Boris Karloff brought to the table as he did with Frankenstein's monster.
The mummy in this film definitely has a master plan up his bandage sleeves, but in this film you actually feel sorry for him and actually want him to succeed. He's not trying to rule the world or cause massive amounts of death, he just wants his love back and to live a happy life with her.
Hence why the film is regarded as a love story that's lasted for thousands of years and Karloff has since improved following Frankenstein along with Jack Pierce's amazing makeup which I've heard Karloff was much more comfortable in.
As much as I like the last two films, universal brings back some favorites with of course Edward Van Sloan and David Matters in their heroic parts while David Matters is a totally different character in context, I'm still on team Edward for this one as playing a different character, but undercover is the monster hunter himself Van Helsing.
Overall The Mummy is a great bone chiller and makes for a good third member of the Universal monster club. Boris Karloff and the cast once again do a fantastic job. The sets are vastly bigger than before, the story is both scary and romantic and if you're the type who enjoy the Frasier films, maybe this one isn't for you for its slower pace, but if you want to see where the Mummy genre began, it's a good education for film buffs and gets a chilling 9.2/10
So grab some popcorn and a soft drink and wrap yourself up for a chilling night with the Mummy.
During a British museum sponsored archaeological expedition to Egypt led by Sir Joseph Wimple (Arthur Bryan), the team discover a mummy and a highly built sarcophagus which holds the high priest Immotep played by Boris Karloff, who comes to life and walks into the desert night after being accidentally summoned from the dead. Ten years later a new expedition led by Sir Joseph's son Frank Wemble played by Dracula hero David Manners finds the tomb of Princess Anax and a moon immotep's lost love, but when the Mummy returns, no pun intended fully formed in human flesh and blood. He discovers his love's coffin being placed in a museum and kills anyone in his path. In order to revive her completely, Immotep requires Helen Grosvere (Zeta Joanne) to die for him in a ritual sacrifice so he can revive her and make her a living mummy like himself due to her being the reincarnation of an axon a moon.
Well this one is an interesting take. Obviously some of this plot very similar to the Brendan Fraser movies most notably the first 1999 film.
Which it is, but while i enjoy the remake. I gotta say that the original has a lot of greatness and glory on par with those films and is worth a high praise up there Dracula and Frankenstein. A lot of people seem to pass on the Mummy either for the remake or that compared to the other monsters is a tad weaker. But I beg to differ because I actually do love the original incarnation that Boris Karloff brought to the table as he did with Frankenstein's monster.
The mummy in this film definitely has a master plan up his bandage sleeves, but in this film you actually feel sorry for him and actually want him to succeed. He's not trying to rule the world or cause massive amounts of death, he just wants his love back and to live a happy life with her.
Hence why the film is regarded as a love story that's lasted for thousands of years and Karloff has since improved following Frankenstein along with Jack Pierce's amazing makeup which I've heard Karloff was much more comfortable in.
As much as I like the last two films, universal brings back some favorites with of course Edward Van Sloan and David Matters in their heroic parts while David Matters is a totally different character in context, I'm still on team Edward for this one as playing a different character, but undercover is the monster hunter himself Van Helsing.
Overall The Mummy is a great bone chiller and makes for a good third member of the Universal monster club. Boris Karloff and the cast once again do a fantastic job. The sets are vastly bigger than before, the story is both scary and romantic and if you're the type who enjoy the Frasier films, maybe this one isn't for you for its slower pace, but if you want to see where the Mummy genre began, it's a good education for film buffs and gets a chilling 9.2/10
So grab some popcorn and a soft drink and wrap yourself up for a chilling night with the Mummy.