Karl Freund’s Universal horror classic is a haunting tale about love beyond death. The discovery of an un-embalmed mummy on an archeological dig in Egypt spells doom for a small group of scholars in Cairo. After reading from the Scroll of Thoth, an eager young archaeologist awakens the dusty corpse and quickly goes insane. Ten years pass and a mysterious Egyptian (Boris Karloff) sets his plans in motion with his endgame being the resurrection of his lost love and he will kill anyone who gets in his way. Jack Pierce’s barely viewed mummy makeup is superb (and shaped many a young monster kid’s ideas of what a mummy looks like), Boris Karloff gives another wonderfully sinister performance and Hungarian-born Zita Johann is an exotically beautiful talent who was sadly underutilized during her Hollywood career. It’s a classic for a reason and it may bore those who have no patience for the creaky early thirties horror flicks but ya can’t please everyone.
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