Review The Mummy (1959)

chainsaw_metal1

chainsaw_metal1

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After the Universal mummies dried up and before Brendan Fraser battled CGI sandstorms, Christopher Lee was a new version of Kharis, who was another bandage wrapped monster with lust on his dusty mind. Is it as good as the Universal films? Better? Worse? Is there anything the 1999 version improved upon (besides Rachel Weisz)?
 
chainsaw_metal1

chainsaw_metal1

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What I loved about the original was seeing Karloff as an actual villain rather than a bandaged monster, as in the sequels. And yet, it worked much more effectively in the Lee version. It would have been interesting to see him as an Ardeth Bey-type character, but the film is pretty solid the way it is.
 
Doctor Omega

Doctor Omega

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Christopher's Lee's pained eyes behind those bandages completely made it impossible to hate him as a monster. I was always disappointed that Boris lost his bandages after one - admittedly powerful - opening scene. The ending scene for Lee's Mummy was also very well done I thought.
 
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