Platypuschow I'm a big nerd, I find analytics interesting regarding my viewing activity and I noticed that I had nothing at all from 1932 so The Mummy was a welcome addition.This is where The Mummy franchise truly began and was essentially where The Mummy (1999) came from.Starring original horror icon Boris Karloff as Imhotep the mummy who returns from the grave seeking the reincarnation of his beloved this is where it all began but did it deliver early on?For me The Mummy is a mixed bag. Yes it was highly original for it's time and looks surprisingly good but the performances are lacking and the finale is blunt and very poorly constructed.I'll give it this, it's considerably better than it's 2017 remake which was a true embarassment that took a simple concept and turned it into overblown Hollywood garbage.A classic, but not overly enjoyable (For me at least)The Good:Looks incredible considering its ageThe Bad:Acting has certainly improved since the 1930'sSudden endingThings I Learnt From This Movie:Though the body rots, eyes stay perfectly intactEven in the humble beginnings of horror cinema, the pets still had to die

Pjtaylor-96-138044 'The Mummy (1932)' is not the best of the classic universal monster movies and there's even an argument to be made that the remake (the 1999 Brendan Frazer vehicle, at least) is a much more fun and entertaining experience, though all other incarnations of the character and story have missed the original's point and none have ever recaptured its style or spirit. This is still a seminal horror picture that confidently tells its tale and takes its place in pop-culture legend for good reason, though. There's a bit more on-screen violence than you're used to in these flicks, the underlying undying 'love' plot is an interesting and nicely explored one (though a bit damsel in distress nowadays) and the central performance is decently unsettling, bolstered by on-point and transitional make-up effects. Its creepiness isn't necessarily the crux of the character, however. In fact, there's a much more 'human' side to the bandaged bogeyman, here. 6/10

merelyaninnuendo The MummyDark Universal will have to come up with something better than this for it will do just fine for a single installment but not for a series and especially not if one of the loopholes of the movie is character's perspective and its development. The Mummy is definitely amazing and horrifying but comparing it to the other films like Dracula or Frankenstein of the same genre, it is short on content and execution. Although the details mentioned in here (the dog or how she convinces her servants to help her escape to him) are as good as Dracula or Frankenstein. Karl Freud doesn't quite get the picture, is probably the reason he couldn't execute it to that level and fails to convince the audience about writer's vision. At the end, The Mummy is of course smartly written, well performed and has the perfect environment and only if it would have been in proper hands, might have been on the major league.

O2D I'm not sure what I was expecting from this movie but I know I didn't get it.This movie starts with archaeologists who are hard to understand talking very fast and not making much sense.They found a mummy, it comes back to life and from that point on, almost nothing makes sense.There's plenty of time wasted on silence and things that have no bearing on the story and then the story jumps from place to place, leaving out large chunks of plot.They just keep introducing new characters and I can't tell them apart. Karloff, Helen and the guy who fell in love with her ten seconds after they met are the only people I'm sure weren't all played by the same person. Everyone else is that boring, hard to understand and therefore interchangeable. As for Karloff, I've heard that he's a great actor but I couldn't tell from this mess. He goes from speaking broken English to using words like "thou" and "mustn't" in very complex sentences, while his accent is constantly changing.This movie is a hot mess from top to bottom. I can't recommend it to anyone.