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Great Film overall

Best movie of this year hands down!

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

There is a Chronological Connection Between the Importance and Quality of Hammer Horror Films. Although the Series Films Featuring Horror Monster Icons Declined with the Sands of Time, All Hammer Films are Worth a Watch.They Had "It", that Something that Makes them Unmistakable and Unique, and Entity Unto Themselves. Much Imitated but Never Equaled, the Studio was Consistent. In this the Third of Four Mummy Movies from Hammer, the Only Obvious Shortcoming is Relying on Some Fairly Constrained and Claustrophobic Sets.It Doesn't Seem to Breathe the way Most Hammer Movies did, Despite Low to Middle Budget Restrictions, the Studio Always Seemed to be More Expansive than They Actually were. Movie Magic. But, As Always, the Sets are Decorated with that Hammer Colorful Charm. The Acting is Competent and the Characters are Varied and the Mummy is a bit Different, and Menacing.There is the Creep Factor Mixed with the Charm that is Typical Hammer and the Movie, while Not in the Top Tier of Terror from the Studio, is Still a Hammer Film, and the Output did Vary at Times, but if its a Hammer it is Worth its Weight in Cinematic Cleverness, Wit, and Scariness that was, if Anything, Familiar and Comforting. There is a Reason that the Studio is so Fondly Remembered and One Only Needs to See a Hammer Film to Get it.

John Gilling directed this third Hammer Studios Mummy picture, this time set in 1920, where an expedition led by Sir Basil Walden(played by Andre Morel) discovers the tomb of an Egyptian child prince, and takes it back to the museum. Unknown to them, a high priest(played by future "Doctor Who" Master Roger Delgado) knows the secret of reviving its Mummy guardian back to life, in an effort to avenge the tomb desecration, starting with Sir Basil.... Not original at all of course, but this one almost pulls it off by some effective(if unintentional) satiric comedy, having fun with the clichés, especially Catherine Lacey's turn as a cackling(and drooling!) fortune teller. Michael Ripper is also quite good as a doomed agent of the expedition's financial backers. Not scary at all, but does have its moments.

The Mummy's Shroud is directed by John Gilling who also co-adapts the screenplay with Anthony Hinds. It stars André Morell, John Phillips, David Buck, Elizabeth Sellars, Maggie Kimberly and Michael Ripper. Music is by Don Banks and cinematography by Arthur Grant.Mezzera, Egypt, 1920, and an expedition to find the tomb of Pharaoh Kah-to-Bey gets more than they bargained for when they unearth a shroud adorned with the ancient writings of life and death...The third instalment of Hammer Films forays into Mumified based Egyptology, The Mummy's Shroud follows the standard formula but never the less entertains in undemanding fashion. Released as the support feature to Frankenstein Created Woman (not Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed as listed in some quarters since that was two years later), it's nicely photographed, stoically performed by the cast (especially by Hammer hero Ripper who gets a meaty role) and is pacey enough to uphold the interest. The violence aspects are strongly constructed, but kept mostly in suggestive terms as per visual enticements, and how nice to see the lead ladies here be more than token cleavage.This was the last Hammer feature to be made at Bray Studios, so it has some poignant significance in the history of Hammer Films. It's not a great send off for Bray, but it's unmistakably one of those Hammer Horror films that fans of the studio's output can easily spend the evening with and not feel it has been time wasted. 6.5/10

***SPOILERS*** The usual Mummy movie with the Mummy's shroud used to activate the Mummy by reciting the ancient Egyptian writing on it. It was the fact that the Mummy's Tomb was violated by a number of British archaeologists that brought the Mummy back to life. The Mummy then went to work in punishing those who violated it with a violent and torturous death. In protecting the remains of it's master the boy Pharaoh Kah-to-Bey the Mummy being his loyal manservant Prem back in ancient Egypt must have been out to lunch when Kah-to-Bey Tomb was entered by the head man of the archeology team Sir Basil Welden. In fact Sir Basil on entering the Mummy's tomb was immediately bitten by a poisonous snake leaving him near death until help arrived. It was really Sir Basil's boss Egypt expert Stanley Preston, John Phillips, who started things going on the wrong foot by having Sir Basil committed to a lunatic asylum, not a hospital,in order to take all the fame and glory away from him! That's in Stanley not Sir Basil being the one getting all the credit of finding the Mummy.This didn't go too well with Stanley's son Paul who together with his girlfriend Chair De Sangre, an interpretor of ancient Egyptian writings, who both decided to stay in Cairo and get to the bottom of all this Mummy business and be even willing to face the music when the Mummy comes looking for them! As for Stanley he together with two of the members of the Mummy expedition team end up getting whacked by the Mummy who was guided to do his dirty work by his and Kah-to Bey's guardian of he Mummy's Tomb the crazed Bedouin tribesman wild eyed and spaced out looking Hasmid Ali. It was Hasmid who recited the curse, written in ancient Egyptian, on the Mummy's shroud that got him into kill mode. ****SPOILERS*** In the end it was Chair who finally stopped the Mummy by finding out the words, on the shroud, to put a stop to its carnage and murder by having it disintegrate into a pile of dust and bones when the movie finally ended. The Mummy in the movie was a lot more agile, like a gymnast or professional wrestler, that what your were used to seeing Mummy's depicted on the screen as well as far more well dressed! In fact the Mummy's clothes or bandages were so neat and tapered that you would think that he just got them laundered and dry-cleaned at the nearest Chinese laundry.