The Mummy
Rank Film Distributors | Release Date: December 16, 1959 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
62
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Generally favorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
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3
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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80
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
Its qualities are almost entirely abstract and visual, with colour essential to its muted, subtle imagery. Christopher Lee looks tremendous in the title role, smashing his way through doorways and erupting from green, dream-like quagmires in really awe-inspiring fashion. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineChuck Bowen
The Mummy is one of Hammer’s classics, cleverly fusing the human pathos of the original Universal film with the creature-centric physicality of the sequels the latter inevitably yielded. Read full review
65
SlashfilmScott Beggs
If you loved Universal’s Mummy but wished it had more Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, here you go. Read full review
60
The GuardianPhilip French
Alternately corny and magical, scary and comic, naive and perverse, elegant and clumsy, The Mummy is always stylish and atmospheric, and Cushing and Lee became enduring world stars. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
This remake really can't compare with the 1932 original and Lee is given no chance to flesh out his character in the haunting manner that Boris Karloff did, but for fairly standardized movie horror, this flick isn't half bad. Read full review
50
The New York TimesHoward Thompson
For a superior version of a nearly identical horror yarn, with a little style and imagination, catch the 1932 Boris Karloff version of The Mummy now floating around on television. The new one just lumbers. Read full review
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