The Mummy

The Mummy (1959)

The Plot: British archaeologists desecrate the tomb of the Egyptian queen and 2,000 years later, a mummy is released to take revenge

  The Mummy is a Hammer film filmed in glorious technicolor featuring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, so it definitely has horror credentials. It is an atmospheric slow burn of a movie though with most of it taking place in England rather than Egypt.
Never trust a man in a fez

  Christopher Lee plays the mummy who is unleashed on the 3 British aristocratic archaeologists who plunder the Queen's tomb. This mummy has a penchant for strangulation as his preferred method of dispatching British aristocratic archaeologists. It's not too hard to kill portly, pampered British aristocrats either as one has been committed to the nursing home after having a breakdown after seeing the Mummy for the first time.
Do I have something on my face?
  The Mummy does meet his match in Peter Cushing though. Proving once again, that yes, we may have plundered your heritage and stolen your antiquities, but we're British dammit, so we're the good guys here! Partly, the mummy is defeated because he sees that Peter Cushing's wife bears a striking resemblance to his Egyptian queen. Yep. That makes sense. 
Oh dear! I do say unhand me, sir!

Overall, it's hard to not like a Hammer film with Peter Cushing and Chritopher Lee. I give The Mummy 6 Fezzes


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