{"id":1622,"date":"2018-10-19T21:36:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T01:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2018-10-19T21:41:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T01:41:12","slug":"universal-classic-monster-movies-an-ocf-classic-movie-review-part-5-the-mummy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/19\/universal-classic-monster-movies-an-ocf-classic-movie-review-part-5-the-mummy\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Classic Monster Movies \u2013 An OCF Classic Movie Review \u2013 Part 5 – The Mummy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Re-posted from October 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

So far in this review, I have gone over the \u201cBig Three\u201d of the Classic Monster class.\u00a0 Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman coexisted in a European setting even showing up in each other\u2019 movies.\u00a0 Very cozy.\u00a0 Maybe almost too much of a good thing.\u00a0 I mean after you have the Daughter of Dracula and the Bride and the Son of Frankenstein what\u2019s left, the Wolfman\u2019s Gardener\u2019s Chiropractor?\u00a0 It would almost be a relief to escape from foggy, chilly Central Europe and head for a warmer and dryer climate.<\/p>\n

Egypt?<\/p>\n

The Mummy presents an intersection of interesting subjects.\u00a0 At the time, it was made (1932) less than 10 years had elapsed since the real-life discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb and the golden artifacts it contained.\u00a0 This discovery along with the supposed \u201cTutankhamen’s Curse\u201d upon all those who desecrated his tomb re-invigorated the public\u2019s interest in Egyptology.\u00a0 Add to that the fascination with a strange and exotic world such as the Middle East would have presented to Westerners of a century ago.\u00a0 And finally mix this together with a mythical love story to produce a strange fantasy to lure the public with.\u00a0 And the movie was very popular, even in Britain, where the colonial setting was probably of interest.<\/p>\n

The story goes like this.\u00a0 A British archeological dig in Egypt uncovers an unspoiled burial site that contains a mummy that was not embalmed but rather buried alive.\u00a0 Markings on the tomb warn any grave robbers that the occupant is a cursed individual and anyone who reads the \u00a0Scroll of Thoth will perish and unleash an undead horror on the world.\u00a0 So of course, they read the scroll.\u00a0 This activates the long dead mummy of Imhotep, the priest who was punished for trying to use the Scroll of Thoth to revivify his lover \u00a0Anck-es-en-Amon, the princess whose untimely death brought about this whole tragedy.\u00a0 After driving one of the expedition mad and sending him to an early grave, Imhotep (played by our old friend Boris Karloff) escapes with the scroll and disappears.\u00a0 Ten years later Helen Grosvenor, the daughter of one of the surviving expedition members, is discovered by Imhotep to be the reincarnated spirit of Anck-es-en-Amon.\u00a0 By this time Imhotep has assumed the identity of a modern-day Egyptian named Ardath Bey.\u00a0 He plans to ritually slay Helen, mummify her and use the Scroll of Thoth to revivify her and make her his bride.\u00a0 Pretty creepy.<\/p>\n

Helen\u2019s friends and family attempting to foil this plot are laughably ineffective.\u00a0 At the end it takes Helen\u2019s returned memory as Anck-es-en-Amon to appeal to Isis (whose votary she was) to put a stop to the ritual murder.\u00a0 Imhotep is blasted by divine intervention and everyone (who is still alive at this point) lives happily ever after.<\/p>\n

One interesting addition to the cast is our old friend Edward Van Sloan as Dr. Muller.\u00a0 In this movie his effectiveness is somewhere between the high competency of Van Helsing in Dracula and the incredible incompetence of Dr. Waldman in Frankenstein.\u00a0 Let\u2019s give him a B- in the Mummy for at least putting up a fight.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always enjoyed the Mummy.\u00a0 But I limit myself to one viewing every ten years.\u00a0 Let\u2019s face it.\u00a0 A Mummy, even one with a scroll that bestows the power of life and death isn\u2019t that scary.\u00a0 For all it\u2019s flaws the 1990s reboot with Brendan Fraser has a lot more chills in it with man eating scarab beetles and a Mummy that revivifies himself by stealing organs from the living.\u00a0 But the 1930s version is solid entertainment well worth seeing, at least once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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