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Summary: I DON'T Want this Mummy!
Review: This flick is the worst Hammer film I have ever seen.
The plot involves an archaelogist trying to reincarnate a queen of darkness because his daughter looks like her and may be possessed by the queen's spirit. It goes downhill from there. Filled with 70s jargon and new age mumbo-jumbo, it makes no sense. Valerie Leon is the only attractive part of the scenery. By that I mean her acting skills are non-existent and she is simply part of the scenery.
The end does not make sense so the flick keeps its continuity throughout.
DO NOT BUY THIS FLICK. I send my copy back.
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Summary: Blood and a Beautiful Mummy
Review: This is one i hadnt seen before and must say it was a treat. One of the better Hammer pictures. Usually the "extras" are wasted on me as i buy the DVD for the movie and not the bonus materials. However, i enjoyed the extra disc of trailers from some of the other Hammer pictures as well as the interviews. The picture quality was wonderful and the widescreen on an old film like this was fantastic. Fans of the Hammer Horror films should be very pleased with this offering.
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Summary: Great quality & value DVD
Review: This new Anchor Bay DVD brings to the screen a little known Bram Stoker novel turned into a respectably spooky film. Valerie Leon does a great job as both victim and mummy. And what an attractive mummy (don't be fooled...the nude scene is an obvious body double). Valerie even has a recent interview as a bonus. THEN there is the Hammer trailer bonus disc. All in all a wonderful presentation. A++
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Summary: The masters of Hammer's Vault of Horror are at it again...
Review: Throughout the years Hammer Films meant quality horror pictures.Spanning more than a decade these tiny jewels had true gothic flair. Made on very tight budgets and at lighting speeds they swiftly outran equivalent products from Hollywood. Who has forgotten Christopher Lee's Dracula or Peter Cushing's Baron Frankenstein? The glory came to Hammer when in the late fifties they produced the remakes of "The Mummy", "Frankenstein" (as "Curse of Frankenstein") and "Dracula" (as "Horror of Dracula"). In the years that followed a number of sequels of these sequels followed, starting with the Frankenstein series and followed by the Dracula series. They all were more or less good or successful but gained a horde of loyal fans and this fact alone made the fortune of Hammer Films. The Mummy instead, a bit like the title role, limped slowly behind. The first one was a lavish remake of Boris Karloff's version. The ones which followed were decaying with the mummy. Starting with "Curse of the Mummy's Tomb" (1964) which was more a parody than anything else, through "The Mummy's Shroud" (1967) which was a poor attempt at combining the Fantasy genre (witches and curses in fairytales) to the Horror of the Mummy, to a last, and may I say, better attempt which is the one I am reviewing now: "Blood from the Mummy's Tomb" (1972). Strangely enough, this one was released at a time when Hammer was already on the way to its decline (see the flops with "The Satanic Rites of Count Dracula" (1973) and "The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires" (1974)). As many other reviewers stated, this one was very loosely adapted from a Bram Stoker's short Novel. It seems to have worked, also because the Mummy is for once a woman, not a man, but can be as deadly if not more lethal than a man. The acting is always discreet and well balanced. The strange thing with Hammer movies is that they always included the best the British stage world had to offer. Besides the names already mentioned, you had Geoffrey Keen, Ralph Bates, Andre Morell, Martine Beswick, Thorley Walters, Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen among others. They all made fantastic careers afterwards or revived their images courtesy of Hammer. If you are a Hammer Horror fan this DVD is a must. If you're new to Hammer I suggest that you familiarize yourself with the very first ones and move on from there. In any case it's always a pleasure to watch them. Their gothic flair, being gory to a point but always with taste and never hitting you with cheap thrills but rather building a momentum to the point you can't stand the tension anymore and then swiftly changing mood to alleviate your nerve tingling, are all points in favor of the Hammer Saga of Success. I only hope we could get back to that freshness and yes, the naivete', that was the Hammer style.
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Summary: The masters of Hammer's Vault of Horror are at it again...
Review: Throughout the years Hammer Films meant quality horror pictures. Spanning more than a decade these tiny jewels had true gothic flair. Made on very tight budgets and at lightning speeds they swiftly outran equivalent products from Hollywood. Who has forgotten Christopher Lee's Dracula or Peter Cushing's Baron Frankenstein? The glory came to Hammer when in the late fifties, they produced the remakes of "The Mummy", "Frankenstein" (as "Curse of Frankenstein") and "Dracula" (as "Horror of Dracula"). In the years that followed a number of sequels of these remakes followed, starting with the Frankenstein series and followed by the Dracula series. They all were more or less good or successful but gained a horde of loyal fans and this fact alone made the fortune of Hammer Films. The Mummy instead, a bit like the title role, limped slowly behind. The first one was a lavish remake of Boris Karloff's version. The ones which followed were decaying with the mummy. Starting with "Curse of the Mummy's Tomb" (1964) which was more a parody than anything else, through "The Mummy's Shroud" (1967) which was a poor attempt at combining the Fantasy genre (witches and curses in fairytales) to the Horror of the Mummy, to a last, and may I say, better attempt which is the one I am reviewing now: "Blood from the Mummy's Tomb" (1972). Strangely enough, this one was released at a time when Hammer was already on the way to its decline (see the flops with "The Satanic Rites of Dracula" (1973) and "The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires" (1974)). As many other reviewers stated, this one was very loosely adapted from a Bram Stoker's short Novel. It seems to have worked, also because the Mummy is for once a woman, not a man, but can be as deadly if not more lethal than a man. The acting is always discreet and well balanced. The strange thing with Hammer movies is that they always included the best the British stage world had to offer. Besides the names already mentioned, you had Geoffrey Keen, Ralph Bates, Andre Morell, Martine Beswick, Thorley Walters, Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen among others. They all made fantastic careers afterwards or revived their images courtesy of Hammer. If you are a Hammer Horror fan this movie is a must. If you're new to Hammer I suggest that you familiarize yourself with the very first ones and move on from there. In any case it's always a pleasure to watch them. Their gothic flair, being gory to a point but always with taste and never hitting you with cheap thrills but rather building a momentum to the point you can't stand the tension anymore and then swiftly changing mood to alleviate your nerve tingling, are all points in favor of the Hammer Saga of Success. There are just two choices for Horror/Fantasy movies of the sixties: Hammer Films or Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe's adaptations, starring the late, but highly talented Vincent Price I only hope we could get back to that freshness and yes, the naivete', that was the Hammer/Corman style.
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Summary: All Wrapped Up In Herself
Review: Valerie Leon's archaeologist father has dug-up quite a find: the tomb of Tara, a hitherto nameless sorcerer-queen of Egypt. Tara's name was all but completely erased from history. Legend has it that she isn't really dead - just sleeping, to reawaken in a later age. The old archaeologist hasn't had such a string of good luck afterward, however. His colleagues are dying, one by one, by odd, inexplicable animal attacks. Attacks by the most unusual animals, too - how many people are bitten by cobras, in modern-day England? And while locked up in a cell, no less, raving about reanimated mummies and ancient Egyptian curses? Leon's dad has been nocturnally attacked, himself. But he's a hardy fellow, not the type to succumb to such things, even when he believes in them - and even when his daughter has frightening dreams of being in Tara's place...or being Tara, herself. This was the first - and arguably the best - adaptation of Bram Stoker's dry drawing room penny-dreadful, The Jewel of the Seven Stars. It benefits from good casting and performances, and an abundance of colorfully creepy atmosphere. The ending could have been stronger, and the pacing is slow. But the movie satisfies, if what you're looking for is an old-fashioned ghost story - with an Egyptian theme. Remade seven years later as The Awakening, with Charlton Heston and Stephanie Zimbalist (which is in some ways better and in some ways not), and again, more than ten years after that, as Bram Stoker's The Mummy. All three versions have their pluses and minuses.
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Summary: All Wrapped Up In Herself
Review: Valerie Leon's archaeologist father has dug-up quite a find: the tomb of Tara, a hitherto nameless sorcerer-queen of Egypt. Tara's name was all but completely erased from history. Legend has it that she isn't really dead - just sleeping, to reawaken in a later age. The old archaeologist hasn't had such a string of good luck afterward, however. His colleagues are dying, one by one, by odd, inexplicable animal attacks. Attacks by the most unusual animals, too - how many people are bitten by cobras, in modern-day England? And while locked up in a cell, no less, raving about reanimated mummies and ancient Egyptian curses? Leon's dad has been nocturnally attacked, himself. But he's a hardy fellow, not the type to succumb to such things, even when he believes in them - and even when his daughter has frightening dreams of being in Tara's place...or being Tara, herself. This was the first - and arguably the best - adaptation of Bram Stoker's dry drawing room penny-dreadful, The Jewel of the Seven Stars. It benefits from good casting and performances, and an abundance of colorfully creepy atmosphere. The ending could have been stronger, and the pacing is slow. But the movie satisfies, if what you're looking for is an old-fashioned ghost story - with an Egyptian theme. Remade seven years later as The Awakening, with Charlton Heston and Stephanie Zimbalist (which is in some ways better and in some ways not), and again, more than ten years after that, as Bram Stoker's The Mummy. All three versions have their pluses and minuses.
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Summary: blood from the mummy's tomb
Review: what an incredible movie. the story can slow down at times. definitely not a horror flick for everyone. not much blood and gore. but valerie leon makes up for any flaws. highly recommended.
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