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i must have seen a different film!!

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

I always tend to steer clear of 'Mummy' films, not for any Oedipal reasons, but because they can get a bit bogged down in Egyptian mythology and more particularly because the wrapped ones tend to move so slowly. In fact, in this one the movement is pretty good, its only a stunt man in there so no attempt at Shakespearean style overacting and generally he's okay. All around him it is very much , the 'B' team except for Jeanne Roland, who does well and looks lovely, but is lumbered with an awfully dubbed voice. The opening scenes with amateurish backcloths are risible and then the film stops for about fifty minutes before an excellent ending. The good old stunt man takes Jeanne down into the sewers and with excellent photography the film really comes alive. Bit late though and it is clear that this film made to fit into a double bill is fit for nothing else.

If you go into the Hammer movie "The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb" thinking it will deliver like the 1959 Hammer movie "The Mummy" did five years earlier, most likely you'll be very disappointed. But even if you haven't seen the earlier movie, you'll probably be somewhat let down. It isn't an awful movie - the production values are solid (except for some phony looking outdoor sequences obviously shot inside of a studio), and it's never boring. And I could live with the fact that the movie is missing a magnetic actor like Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee in a pivotal role. But when it comes to delivering the goods, the movie disappoints. Believe it or not, it takes almost two-thirds of the movie before the mummy starts on its rampage. These scenes with the mummy are, I admit, kind of fun. But they are brief and not large in number. Most of the movie is talk, talk, and more talk. More action and horror, and a lot less blabbering as well, would have helped things considerably. At least the movie is short (80 minutes), though even then the padding of the somewhat thin story is obvious many times.

This is what a horror film should be.This is exactly what a Mummy film should be.It is undeniably one of the best Mummy films, if not the best.That's because we get all of the elements.We have the "curse" upon those who dare to infringe upon the mysticism of the culture.We also have the beautiful woman who is to be the Mummy's love interest.We also have an array of interesting, even believable characters for science fiction purposes.Most importantly, we have the "brother" angle here. We know, of course, the Mummy is one brother, and it isn't long before we learn who the other one is.Which one will want to kill the girl? Which one will fight to save her? That is what makes the Mummy films so great.Everything this does, this does well. The cast is superb. If a few are annoying, it is because they do their jobs at playing annoying characters. That's called "good acting". It's something many of today's prima donas would never do. Can't blame them. They would lose their fan base of dorks.This was done in the days when fan bases were much more mature.The atmosphere here is very good, too.

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb is out of Hammer Film Productions and written and directed by Michael Carreras. It stars Terence Morgan, Ronald Howard, Fred Clark & Jeanne Roland. Music is by Carlo Martelli and cinematography Otto Heller. It's shot in Technicolor using the Techniscope format. Plot sees three British Egyptologists discover the tomb of Prince Ra and under guidance from their showman benefactor bring their discovery back to London. Once in London the Mummified body of Ra starts killing people, it seems someone has the know-how to resurrect the creature for evil doings.It doesn't actually feel like a Hammer Horror movie, except for Roland's cleavage that is. The cast are largely unfamiliar Hammer performers and you sense that the casting is a deliberate attempt to detract from a very salient point. As a story and how it's strung together, The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb is pretty much an uncredited remake of Hammer's own, excellent, first foray into Mummy world in 1959. Once mooted as that film's sequel, it has since been distanced as such because of the similarities. Which means to judge it as a standalone or a remake (which makes it a lazy cash in then) is the question. Fact is, tho, is that either way it's a distinctly average film from a narrative view point. The acting is fine enough, tho Roland really is only there for said cleavage, and the sets and vibrant colour make it very pleasing to the eye. But it takes an age to get going and the unoriginality of the script only hastens the feeling of, well, boredom setting in.Wrapping up (bad pun I know), it's watchable and better looking than the other Mummy film's that Hammer released after it. But really it all feels lazy and pales in comparison to the first film in 1959. 5/10