10 Days to Halloween - The Mummy (1932) - 24th October 2012

Welcome back to '10 Days to Halloween'. Today we are going to talk about another of the Universal monster films, also the last one of this list, that being The Mummy. Not to be confused with Brendan Fraser's 1999 film. This is the original mummy film starring Frankenstein's monster Boris Karloff.

Anyways I think we should get on to talking about the film. This one will leave you in wraps!... Get it? Wraps... no? Ok let's just get to it.

Well first off I'll say, don't be fooled by my silly little joke there, Karloff doesn't spend the entire film wrapped up hunting innocent people. He is actually unwrapped for the mojority of the film while he tries to find a way to resurrect his lost love.

Until he finds out she has a living reincarnation, where he tries to kill her and turn her into a living mummy like himself.This led to the film often being referred to as 'a love story that's lasted a thousand years' which is a pretty apt, but there is also a lot of killing.

Like in the flashback scenes where Imhotep (Karloff) is being wrapped and buried, then the men that bury him are killed to hide the site. This could be one of the first impailings to be shown in cinema.

With a chilling and often gruesome atmosphere this film is one of the great horror classics. There isn't much more to say on this film to be honest.

Karloff is great in his role and is a great horror actor and actually talks in this film, he actually has a creepy quality to his voice which goes incredibly well with the part he is playing.. Again it's another one of those if you haven't watched it then what the hell are you doing reading this? Go watch it!

Come back tomorrow for another '10 Days to Halloween' post. We will be jumping ahead a bit and we will be looking at Psycho.


                                         All photos and video are from Universal Studio