Wizard-8 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.

SanteeFats This is obviously an old school horror movie from Hammer Studios. It starts out a little slow but picks up as it goes on. One of the opening scenes is a bit confusing with one of the archeologists tied to two posts. A nomad (?) shows and knifes the guy and then cuts off his left hand. The hand and knife show up a little later in the research teams tents. Discovering the tomb of an Egyptian prince. They excavate the tomb find the mummy and other artifacts. The financial sponsor for the dig, an American showman, decides to take the whole shebang on a tour of America. Well it leads to several dead witnesses of the opening of the sarcophagus. Turns out Ra's younger brother who actually responsible his murder has been cursed with eternal life unless Ra kills him with his own hand. Well this happens and taking the necklace with the "Words of Life" on it he then destroys himself.

bkoganbing Hammer Films which took over the famous Universal horror icons did a mummy's tale with The Curse Of The Mummy's Tomb. A little bit of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray story was weaved into the plot of this movie.Set at the turn of the last century, three archaeologists unearth the tomb of a crown prince of Egypt who legend has it was slain by his brother a few thousand years BC. But someone with reasons of his own to finance the expedition has used some ancient spells to revive the dead and the prince is out settling a few scores against those who've violated his sleep.Terrance Morgan stars in this film and he's the fellow with the Dorian Gray situation. He's got an agenda himself working here at it involves putting an end to his Dorian Gray like existence and being reunited in eternity with his true love. In that sense a leaf is borrowed from the classic original Mummy film that starred Boris Karloff.Which happens to be my favorite horror film of all time so every other mummy film just pales in comparison. Still The Curse Of The Mummy's Tomb has enough on its own merits to rate some comparison and Terrence Morgan who is best remembered on the big screen for playing Laertes to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet does a fine job here as a most tortured soul.

JoeB131 Hammer had two great stars, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. When they tried to make a horror movie without them, what they got was kind of pedestrian and predictable.I usually try to avoid "Star Quality" as a virtue of film, but Hammer proved it...The plot is that an archaeological team uncovers the lost tomb of a dead Egyptian prince. The mummy is reanimated and begins to pick off the people who opened his tomb. (Cliche). The twist is that his brother has been cursed to live forever, and wants his brother to kill him, after he took care of those people who desecrated the tomb, of course..(Now, you'd think that if you were tired of eternal life, you wouldn't focus on snuffing the bit players so much.) Especially nutty is the evil brother seducing the girlfriend of the head archaeologist....Now you would think that if you are so anxious to die, you wouldn't worry about such side issues...It's okay to watch, but not great. YOu can see why whoever owns the rights to Hammer films put this on the "collection disk" grouping.