Decent Mummy flick from Hammer Studios doesn’t do much in terms of developing suspense or doling out scares, but it is fun to watch the angry Mummy stumble around and kill people, and some of the performances, particularly Fred Clark as Alexander King and George Pastell as Hashmi Bey, are well worth the price of admission. The story takes us back to 1900, when a pair of Brits unearth the long-lost tomb of Ra, and pass the Pharaoh’s mummified corpse off on an American entrepreneur planning to tour the thing around the world. Trouble is, the tomb is cursed, and anyone involved in opening the sarcophagus is doomed to die. And to make matters worse, someone has discovered how to reanimate the dead Pharaoh, and Ra has three thousand years of anger to vent. Certainly near the bottom of the barrel when ranked alongside the classic Hammer creations, The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb is still an enjoyable, well-produced, and competently acted picture. And that’s more than I can say for much of today’s forgettable horror fare.
by Thomas Scalzo | Source: Comcast MoviePass Feature
18 Mar 2005 4:32 PM | Submit Comment