The filmmakers reportedly spent $15 million of the $80 million budget on special effects, provided by Industrial Light & Magic; the producers wanted a new look for the Mummy so that they would avoid comparisons to past movies. John Andrew Berton, Jr., Industrial Light & Magic's Visual Effects Supervisor on "The Mummy", started developing the look three months before filming started. He said that he wanted the Mummy "to be mean, tough, nasty, something that had never been seen by audiences before". Berton used motion capture in order to achieve "a menacing and very realistic Mummy". Specific photography was conducted on actor Arnold Vosloo so that the special effects crew could see exactly how he moved and replicate it.
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The Mummy (1999 film)
The Mummy (1999 film) | Special effects
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who played the mummy in the old movies
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Boris Karloff
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has he also acted in any other film?
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Yes - Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Son of Frankenstein (1939).
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where is he from?
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Surrey (now London), England.
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what is the 1999 version of the film about?
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The film follows adventurer Rick O'Connell as he travels to Hamunaptra, the City of the Dead, with a librarian and her older brother, where they accidentally awaken Imhotep, a cursed high priest from the reign of the Pharaoh Seti I of 1290 B.C.
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what is the genre of this film?
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Action horror film
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is the place where the character travels to a real place?
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No -It is a fictional Egyptian city in the film.
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who released this film?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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who is the director of this film?
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Stephen Sommers.
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who was he?
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American film director and screenwriter
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can you name some other films he has directed?
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The Mummy Returns (2001) ; Van Helsing (2004) ; The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993) ; The Jungle Book (1994)
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is the 1999 version a continuation of the the 1932 version?
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No, it is a remake of the 1932 film
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who are the special effects of the film attributed to?
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A lot of the time I was walking around the set looking like a Christmas tree." Make-Up Effects Supervisor Nick Dudman produced the physical creature effects in the film, including three-dimensional make-up and prosthetics. He also designed all of the animatronic effects. While the film made extensive use of computer-generated imagery, many scenes, including ones where Rachel Weisz's character is covered with rats and locusts, were real, using live animals.
The Mummy (1999 film) | Special effects
Think "Raiders of the Lost Ark" with cartoon characters, no coherent story line and lavish but cheesy special effects. Think "Night of the Living Dead" stripped of genuine horror and restaged as an Egyptian-theme Halloween pageant. Think "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy" grafted onto a Bing Crosby-Bob Hope road picture ("The Road to Hamunaptra"?) and pumped up into an epic-size genre spoof." Publications like "The Austin Chronicle" and "Dallas Observer" came to the conclusion that despite good acting and special effects, the movie lacked cohesion; talking about the special effects, the "Observer" lamented "If only generating a soul for the film itself were so easy." Other publications such as "Jump Cut" felt that Industrial Light and Magic's lock on special effects proved detrimental to "The Mummy"; "The mummy", Ernest Larson wrote for the "Jump Cut", "is standard-issue I.L.&M." Kim Newman of the British Film Institute (BFI) judged the picture inferior to the original, as all the time was spent on special effects, instead of creating the atmosphere which made the original film such a classic.
The Mummy (1999 film) | Critical response
The filmmakers reportedly spent $15 million of the $80 million budget on special effects, provided by Industrial Light & Magic; the producers wanted a new look for the Mummy so that they would avoid comparisons to past movies. John Andrew Berton, Jr., Industrial Light & Magic's Visual Effects Supervisor on "The Mummy", started developing the look three months before filming started. He said that he wanted the Mummy "to be mean, tough, nasty, something that had never been seen by audiences before". Berton used motion capture in order to achieve "a menacing and very realistic Mummy". Specific photography was conducted on actor Arnold Vosloo so that the special effects crew could see exactly how he moved and replicate it.
The Mummy (1999 film) | Special effects
To create the Mummy, Berton used a combination of live action and computer graphics. He matched the digital prosthetic make-up pieces on Vosloo's face during filming. Berton said, "When you see his film image, that's him. When he turns his head and half of his face is missing and you can see right through on to his teeth, that's really his face. And that's why it was so hard to do." Vosloo described the filming as a "whole new thing" for him; "They had to put these little red tracking lights all over my face so they could map in the special effects.
The Mummy (1999 film) | Special effects
The crew endured dehydration, sandstorms, and snakes during work in the Sahara desert. The film was the first to use the natural crater formation Gara Medouar. Industrial Light & Magic provided visual effects and blended film and computer-generated imagery to create the mummy. Jerry Goldsmith provided the orchestral score. "The Mummy" was theatrically released on May 7, 1999 and grossed over $416.4 million worldwide against a production budget of $80 million. The film's success spawned the sequels, "The Mummy Returns" (2001) and "" (2008), as well as an animated series and the prequel/spin-off film "The Scorpion King" (2002), which generated its own sequels.
The Mummy (1999 film) | Introduction
Sandstorms were daily inconveniences. Snakes, spiders and scorpions were a major problem, with many crew members having to be airlifted out after being bitten. Brendan Fraser nearly died during a scene where his character is hanged. Weisz remembered, "He [Fraser] stopped breathing and had to be resuscitated." The production had the official support of the Royal Moroccan Army, and the cast members had kidnapping insurance taken out on them, a fact Sommers disclosed to the cast only after shooting had finished. Production designer Allan Cameron found a dormant volcano near Erfoud where the entire set for Hamunaptra could be constructed.
The Mummy (1999 film) | Principal photography
The special effects in the movie received an Oscar nomination in the category Best Special Effects. In September, "The Mummy's Hand" was released. Although it is sometimes claimed by fans as a sequel or follow-up to "The Mummy", it does not continue the 1932 film's storyline, or feature any of the same characters. "The Mummy's Hand" was the first of a series of four films all featuring the mummy named Kharis, the sequels being "The Mummy's Tomb" (1942), "The Mummy's Ghost", and "The Mummy's Curse" (both 1944). Tom Tyler played Kharis in this film but Lon Chaney, Jr. took over the role for the following three sequels.
Horror film | Universal Classic Monsters (Numerous Sequels and the debut of The Wolf Man)
The Mummy is a 1999 American action horror film written and directed by Stephen Sommers. It is a remake of the 1932 film of the same title and stars Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, and Kevin J. O'Connor, with Arnold Vosloo in the title role as the reanimated mummy. The film follows adventurer Rick O'Connell as he travels to Hamunaptra, the City of the Dead, with a librarian and her older brother, where they accidentally awaken Imhotep, a cursed high priest from the reign of the Pharaoh Seti I of 1290 B.C. Filming began in Marrakech, Morocco, on May 4, 1998, and lasted seventeen weeks.
The Mummy (1999 film) | Introduction
Sommers liked the location because, "A city hidden in the crater of an extinct volcano made perfect sense. Out in the middle of the desert you would never see it. You would never think of entering the crater unless you knew what was inside that volcano." A survey of the volcano was conducted so that an accurate model and scale models of the columns and statues could be replicated back at Shepperton Studios, where all of the scenes involving the underground passageways of the City of the Dead were shot. These sets took 16 weeks to build, and included fiberglass columns rigged with special effects for the movie's final scenes.
The Mummy (1999 film) | Principal photography
The film was adapted into a 12-page comic strip for the July 1978 issue of the magazine "Hammer's Halls of Horror". It was drawn by David Jackson from a script by Steve Moore. The cover of the issue featured a painting by Brian Lewis of Christopher Lee as Kharis. The film is cited as a particular influence on the "Doctor Who" serial "Pyramids of Mars" (1975).
The Mummy (1959 film) | In other media
Three other reviews in "Billboard", "The New York Dramatic Mirror" and "The Morning Telegraph" were all positive with emphasis on the special effects. Pantelis Michelakis and Maria Wyke's book "The Ancient World in Silent Cinema" provides additional nuance in noting the film's erotic underpinnings in which the past is bridged to the present through marriage to the re-animated Egyptian princess. The film has erroneously been claimed to be the earliest "Mummy"-themed film, but "The Monster Book" notes films including "Robbing Cleopatra's Tomb" from 1899 and "La Momie du roi" in 1909 as earlier examples. The film is presumed to be lost.
The Mummy (1911 film) | Reception
A glass fiber replica of a sarcophagus created for the film is in the collection of the Perth Museum and Art Gallery.
The Mummy (1959 film) | Surviving props
The story was continued in the 1944 film, "The Mummy's Ghost". The film was released on October 23, 1942 by Universal Pictures on a double bill with "Night Monster". It was re-released in February, 1948 by Universal through Realart Pictures and went to television as part of the original "Shock Theater" package of 52 Universal titles syndicated in 1957.
The Mummy's Tomb | Production and release
Originally a proposed remake of "The Mummy" would have been directed by horror filmmaker/writer Clive Barker. Barker's vision for the film was violent, with the story revolving around the head of a contemporary art museum who turns out to be a cultist trying to reanimate mummies. Barker's take was "dark, sexual and filled with mysticism", and that, "it would have been a great low-budget movie". In 1999, Stephen Sommers wrote and directed a remake of "The Mummy", loosely based on the original film of 1932. This film switches genres from the emphasis on horror to adventure, concentrating more on action sequences, special effects, comedy, and a higher element of Egyptian lore.
The Mummy (franchise) | Stephen Sommers series (1999–2008)
Another large set was constructed in the United Kingdom on the dockyard at Chatham which doubled for the Giza Port on the river Nile. This set was in length and featured "a steam train, an Ajax traction engine, three cranes, an open two-horse carriage, four horse-drawn carts, five dressing horses and grooms, nine pack donkeys and mules, as well as market stalls, Arab-clad vendors and room for 300 costumed extras".
The Mummy (1999 film) | Principal photography
I cannot argue for the script, the direction, the acting or even the mummy, but I can say that I was not bored and sometimes I was unreasonably pleased." Likewise, Owen Gleiberman of "Entertainment Weekly" gave the film a "B−" grade and said, ""The Mummy" would like to make you shudder, but it tries to do so without ever letting go of its jocular inconsequentiality." Bob Graham of the "San Francisco Chronicle" gave the film high marks for the acting as well as the special effects. Stephen Holden from "The New York Times" wrote, "This version of "The Mummy" has no pretenses to be anything other than a gaudy comic video game splashed onto the screen.
The Mummy (1999 film) | Critical response
The film is presumed to be lost.
The Mummy (1911 film) | Introduction
"USA Today" gave the film two out of four stars and felt that it was "not free of stereotypes", a sentiment with which the BFI concurred. "If someone complains of a foul odor, you can be sure an Arab stooge is about to enter a scene. Fraser, equally quick with weapon, fist or quip, may save the day, but even he can't save the picture", "USA Today" wrote.
The Mummy (1999 film) | Critical response
Originally the scenes of Kharis's tongue being cut out and shotgun demise were more graphic, but were trimmed for the British censor. In the video, "Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror", Peter Cushing claims that he suggested the scene in which he drives a spear through the mummy. He was inspired by the pre-release poster (see image above) which shows the mummy with a shaft of light passing through it.
The Mummy (1959 film) | Production
Filming began in Marrakech, Morocco on May 4, 1998, and lasted 17 weeks. Photography moved to the Sahara desert outside the small town of Erfoud, and to the United Kingdom before completion of shooting on August 29, 1998. At the geological formation Gara Medouar, a concrete ramp was built to allow access into the horseshoe-shaped formation, where the city of Hamunaptra was constructed. The crew could not shoot in Egypt because of unstable political conditions. To avoid dehydration in the scorching heat of the Sahara, the production's medical team created a drink that the cast and crew had to consume every two hours.
The Mummy (1999 film) | Principal photography
In 1992, producers James Jacks and Sean Daniel decided to update the original 1932 "Mummy" film for the 1990s. Universal Studios gave them the go-ahead, but only if they kept the budget around $10 million. Jacks remembers that the studio "essentially wanted a low-budget horror franchise"; in response, Jacks and Daniel recruited horror filmmaker/writer Clive Barker on board to direct. Barker's vision for the film was violent, with the story revolving around the head of a contemporary art museum who turns out to be a cultist trying to reanimate mummies. Jacks recalls that Barker's take was "dark, sexual and filled with mysticism", and that, "it would have been a great low-budget movie".
The Mummy (1999 film) | Origins
Originally, the ride featured faux-fire and projection effects during the final encounter with Imhotep, engulfing the ride vehicle in pressurized steam and specialized lighting. The ride now uses strobe effects, with a brief pause before the false wall rises on the loading platform.
Revenge of the Mummy | Modifications
After several meetings, Barker and Universal lost interest and parted company. Director Joe Dante was the next choice, increasing the budget for his idea of Daniel Day-Lewis as a brooding Mummy. This version's draft was written by Alan Ormsby, and was later re-written by John Sayles. It was set in contemporary times and focused on reincarnation with elements of a love story. It came close to being made with some elements, like the flesh-eating scarabs, making it to the final product. However, at that point, the studio wanted a film with a budget of $15 million and rejected Dante's version.
The Mummy (1999 film) | Origins
The much later Universal film "The Mummy" (1999) also suggests that it is a remake of the 1932 film, but has a different story line. However, in common with most postmodern remakes of classic horror and science-fiction films, it may be considered as such in that it is produced-distributed by the same studio, its titular character is again named Imhotep, resurrected by the Book of the Dead, and out to find the present-day embodiment of the soul of his beloved Anck-su-namun, and features an Egyptian named Ardeth Bay (in this case, a guard of the city and of Imhotep's tomb).
The Mummy (1932 film) | Remake series
On the other hand, some critics found the score lacked cohesion, and that the constant heavy action lent itself to annoying repetition. Roderick Scott off CineMusic.net summed up the score as "representative of both Goldsmith's absolute best and his most mediocre. Thankfully […] his favourable work on this release wins out."
The Mummy (1999 film) | Music
Inspired by the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 and the Curse of the Pharaohs, producer Carl Laemmle Jr. commissioned story editor Richard Schayer to find a literary novel to form a basis for an Egyptian-themed horror film, just as the novels "Dracula" and "Frankenstein" inspired their 1931 films "Dracula" and "Frankenstein". Schayer found none, although the plot bears a strong resemblance to a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle entitled "The Ring of Thoth". Schayer and writer Nina Wilcox Putnam learned about Alessandro Cagliostro and wrote a nine-page treatment entitled "Cagliostro". The story, set in San Francisco, was about a 3,000-year-old magician who survives by injecting nitrates.
The Mummy (1932 film) | Production
The Mummy is a 1959 British horror film, directed by Terence Fisher and starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. It was written by Jimmy Sangster and produced by Michael Carreras and Anthony Nelson Keys for Hammer Film Productions. The film was distributed in the U.S. in 1959 on a double bill with either the Vincent Price film "The Bat" or the Universal film "Curse of the Undead". Though the title suggests Universal Pictures' 1932 film of the same title, the film actually derives its plot and characters entirely from two 1940s Universal films, "The Mummy's Hand" and "The Mummy's Tomb", with the climax borrowed directly from "The Mummy's Ghost".
The Mummy (1959 film) | Introduction
After escaping into the city sewer system, Karis embarks on a vengeful rampage against the various criminal fences and high society antiquarians who had acquired stolen relics from his tomb. Romero's script was considered too dark and violent by Jacks and the studio, who wanted a more accessible picture. Romero was unable to extricate himself from another contract he had in negotiation with MGM, and so his involvement with the film was severed and the development of an entirely new script was commissioned.
The Mummy (1999 film) | Origins
The character name Joseph Whemple, the use of a sacred scroll, and a few minor plot elements are the only connections with the 1932 version.
The Mummy (1959 film) | Introduction
Hammer Studios originally offered the project to Universal Pictures in 1963. The film credits Henry Younger as the screenwriter, while the screenplay was written by Michael Carreras and Alvin Rakoff.
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb | Production
It was distributed by the Motion Picture Distributing and Sales Company. The production came during a time of renewed interest in Egyptology in which Pathé and Urban Films would release their own films titled "The Mummy". This would be followed by Essanay Studios in 1912 with the release of "When Soul Meets Soul" and Gaumont Film Company "The Vengeance of Egypt". The film had a unique special effect in which the bodies of the cast dissolve and take an aerial flight to Egypt at the end of the film.
The Mummy (1911 film) | Production
Unlike other Universal Monsters films, "The Mummy" had no official sequels, but rather was reimagined in "The Mummy's Hand" (1940) and its sequels, "The Mummy's Tomb" (1942), "The Mummy's Ghost" (1944), "The Mummy's Curse" (1944), and the studios' comedy–horror crossover movie "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy" (1955). These films focus on the titular character named Kharis (Klaris in the Abbott and Costello film). "The Mummy's Hand" recycled footage from the original film for use in the telling of Kharis' origins, where Karloff is clearly visible in several of these recycled scenes but was not credited. Lon Chaney Jr. played the Mummy in "The Mummy's Tomb", "The Mummy's Ghost", and "The Mummy's Curse".
The Mummy (1932 film) | Sequels
The writer of the scenario is unknown, but it was most likely Lloyd Lonergan. He was an experienced newspaperman employed by "The New York Evening World" while writing scripts for the Thanhouser productions. The film director is unknown, but it may have been Barry O'Neil or Lucius J. Henderson. Cameramen employed by the company during this era included Blair Smith, Carl Louis Gregory, and Alfred H. Moses, Jr. though none are specifically credited. The role of the cameraman was uncredited in 1910 productions. According to Bowers the cast credits are unknown, but many Thanhouser productions are fragmentary. Though a production still shows William Russell in the film.
The Mummy (1911 film) | Production
Principal photography on the film began on April 3, 2016, in Oxford, United Kingdom. Filming on the movie concluded on July 17, 2016, in London. Production then moved to Namibia for two weeks, with principal photography wrapping up on August 13, 2016. For the filming of the plane crash the production made use of The Vomit Comet and parabolic flight to simulate the illusion of weightlessness. The crew did a total of 64 takes with many of the crew becoming sick to their stomachs. Initially Kurtzman planned to shoot the scene entirely using wires and a rotating set, however Cruise's insistence changed his mind.
The Mummy (2017 film) | Filming
Anthony Hickox wrote 2012 the script of the remake "Prisoners of the Sun", which directed by Roger Christian and stars Joss Ackland, Carmen Chaplin, Nick Moran and John Rhys-Davies. The film will release in April 2015 in the United Kingdom on DVD and Blu-ray.
Dawn of the Mummy | Remake
"The Mummy's Curse" made use of footage from two of Universal's previous mummy films, "The Mummy" (1932) and "The Mummy's Hand" (1940). In the book "It Came from Bob's Basement: Exploring the Science Fiction and Monster Movie Archive of Bob Burns", a book by horror and film collector Bob Burns, Burns has the last surviving piece of Jack Pierce's makeup which is the mask worn by Lon Chaney Jr. in this film.
The Mummy's Curse | Production
Filmmaker George A. Romero was brought in with a vision of a zombie-style horror film similar to "Night of the Living Dead", but which also relied heavily upon elements of tragic romance and ambivalence of identity. Romero completed a draft in October 1994, co-written with Ormsby and Sayles, that revolved around female archaeologist Helen Grover and her discovery of the tomb of Imhotep, an Egyptian general who lived in the time of Ramesses II. Unfolding in a nameless American city in modern times, events are set into motion when Imhotep inadvertently awakens as a result of his preserved cadaver having been exposed to rays from an MRI scan in a high-tech forensic archaeology lab.
The Mummy (1999 film) | Origins
The film was a success at the box office, particularly in the United Kingdom The film received positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports an 88% score, based on 41 reviews, with an average rating of 7.48/10. The site's consensus states: "Relying more on mood and atmosphere than the thrills typical of modern horror fare, Universal's "The Mummy" sets a masterful template for mummy-themed films to follow."
The Mummy (1932 film) | Reception
The story was based on a 1927 novel by J.B. Priestly. In December 1932, the studio released "The Mummy" starring Boris Karloff as the Egyptian monster. The film, based on an original screenplay, is about an ancient Egyptian mummy named Imhotep who is discovered by a team of archaeologists and inadvertently brought back to life through a magic scroll. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 93% score, based on 27 reviews, with an average rating of 7.9/10. The site's consensus states: "Relying more on mood and atmosphere than the thrills typical of modern horror fare, Universal's The Mummy sets a masterful template for mummy-themed films to follow." The Mummy character was so popular that it spawned sequels and remakes over the next decades.
Horror film | 1932: Edgar Allan Poe Double Feature and The Mummy
The story is a possible influence for the lost short film "Robbing Cleopatra's Tomb" (1899). The tale was adapted into a 1967 television production for the BBC program "Tales of Conan Doyle", as well as the lead segment from "" (1990). The "Tales from the Darkside" segment contains slapstick and slasher film elements. It depicts Bellingham (played by Steve Buscemi) as a student who funds his studies through antique dealing and the mummy (played by Mike Deak, the film's makeup artist) "as an instrument of social justice, defending the poor-but-able student body against the exploitative, leisured classes, who are corrupting the academic system by plagiarism." According to Mark Browning's "Stephen King on the Big Screen", the "mummy horror sub-genre" was "largely played out" by the time the film was made.
Lot No. 249 | Adaptations
The original series of films consisted of six installments, which starred iconic horror actors such as Boris Karloff (only in the original one, as Imhotep); Tom Tyler and Lon Chaney Jr. as Kharis; and lastly Eddie Parker, who played Klaris, a cousin of Kharis. The series of films is part of the larger Universal Classic Monsters series.
The Mummy (franchise) | Universal Classic Monsters film series (1932–1955)
The Mummy is a 1932 American pre-Code horror film directed by Karl Freund. The screenplay by John L. Balderston was from a story by Nina Wilcox Putnam and Richard Schayer. Released by Universal Studios, the film stars Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan and Arthur Byron. The film is about an ancient Egyptian mummy named Imhotep who is discovered by a team of archaeologists and inadvertently brought back to life through a magic scroll. Disguised as a modern Egyptian named Ardeth Bay, Imhotep searches for his lost love, whom he believes has been reincarnated into a modern girl.
The Mummy (1932 film) | Introduction
One major change to the make-up process was to Radu's hands. In the original film, Hove had to wear individual appliances on each of his fingers, but to cut back on the time needed to apply the make-up, Toth and Cabrera created a pair of prosthetic gloves that Hove could slip on his hands. For "Mummy", Radu's sorceress mother, a headpiece was cast from Pamela Gordon, which included her shoulders as well. After the make-up was applied to give the cast a "dry" and "mummified" appearance, it was slipped over Gordon's head leaving only her face showing. From there, Toth and Cabrera applied a separate face prosthetic.
Subspecies (film series) | Production
This film spawned two sequels with "The Mummy Returns" (2001) and "" (2008). "The Mummy Returns" also spawned a prequel spin-off of that sequel, "The Scorpion King" (2002), which in turn spawned a prequel, "" (2008), and three sequels, "" (2012), "" (2015) and "" (2018). Also, a short-lived animated series simply titled "The Mummy" ran from 2001 to 2003.
The Mummy (1932 film) | Remake series
The film was retitled "The Mummy". Freund cast Zita Johann, who believed in reincarnation, and named her character 'Anck-su-namun' after the only wife of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The real Ankhesenamun's body had not been discovered in the tomb of King Tut and her resting place was unknown. Her name, however, would not have been unknown to the general public.
The Mummy (1932 film) | Production
In late 1910, the Thanhouser company released a list of the important personalities in their films. The list includes G.W. Abbe, Justus D. Barnes, Frank H. Crane, Irene Crane, Marie Eline, Violet Heming, Martin J. Faust, Thomas Fortune, George Middleton, Grace Moore, John W. Noble, Anna Rosemond, Mrs. George Walters. The film was given the production code number 191 and had a code word of "Mum". A catalog listed the film's length at 995 feet. The film's expected run-time was fifteen minutes and was billed by the Thanhouser Company as having many novelties and being of a comedic nature. It was released on March 7, 1911 and listed as a drama by the "Moving Picture World".
The Mummy (1911 film) | Production
With the agreement in place, Hammer's executives had their pick of Universal International's horror icons and chose to remake "The Invisible Man", "The Phantom of the Opera", and "The Mummy's Hand". All were to be filmed in colour at Bray Studios, by the same team responsible for "The Curse of Frankenstein" and "Dracula". "The Mummy" (the title used for the remake of "The Mummy's Hand", which also incorporated significant story elements from that film's sequel, "The Mummy's Tomb") was made in 1959, "The Phantom of the Opera" followed in 1962, and Hammer collaborated with William Castle on a remake of "The Old Dark House" in 1963.
Hammer Film Productions | "The Mummy"
The Mummy Strikes (1943) is the fourteenth of seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character of Superman. Produced by Famous Studios, the cartoon was originally released to theaters by Paramount Pictures on February 19, 1943.
The Mummy Strikes | Introduction
Makeup artist Mark Coulier, who had previously worked on several Clive Barker film adaptations such as "Nightbreed" (1990) and "Candyman" (1992), served as the film's makeup effects coordinator. The bulk of the special effects featured in the film were achieved via practical methods. According to Coulier, the death sequence of Olga, and the final sabbath scene were the most demanding in regard to special effects. For the former, a prosthetic arm, leg, broken ribs, and a protruding dental cast were created for actress Elena Fokina (Olga), allowing her to appear as though the bones in her limbs, abdomen, and jaw were being crushed and broken.
Suspiria (2018 film) | Special effects
The film was the second of Lon Chaney Jr.'s three "Mummy" features. Filming began on August 23 and finished on September 1, 1943.
The Mummy's Ghost | Production
The Mummy's Shroud is a 1967 British DeLuxe colour horror film made by Hammer Film Productions which was directed by John Gilling. It stars André Morell and David Buck as explorers who uncover the tomb of an ancient Egyptian mummy. It also starred John Phillips, Maggie Kimberly, Elizabeth Sellars and Michael Ripper as Longbarrow. Stuntman Eddie Powell (Christopher Lee's regular stunt double) played the Mummy, brought back to life to wreak revenge on his enemies. The uncredited narrator in the prologue, sometimes incorrectly assumed to be Peter Cushing, is British actor Tim Turner. It was the third of Hammer's four Mummy films, a cycle which began with "The Mummy" (1959), continued with "The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb" (1964), and ended with "Blood from the Mummy's Tomb" (1971).
The Mummy's Shroud | Introduction
Make-up artist Jack Pierce was responsible for the look of the Mummy. After studying photos of ancient mummies, Pierce came up with the look bearing a resemblance to the mummy of Ramesses III. Pierce began transforming Karloff at 11 a.m., applying cotton, collodion and spirit gum to his face; clay to his hair; and wrapping him in linen bandages treated with acid and burnt in an oven, finishing the job at 7 p.m. Karloff finished his scenes by 2 a.m., and another two hours were spent removing the make-up. Boris Karloff found the removal of gum from his face painful, and overall found the day "the most trying ordeal I [had] ever endured".
Horror film | 1932: Edgar Allan Poe Double Feature and The Mummy
The Mummy is a 1911 American short silent film produced by the Thanhouser Company. The film details the story of Jack Thornton, a businessman, who is in love with Professor Dix's daughter. Jack purchases a mummy and plans to win his respect as an Egyptologist, but the mummy is reanimated in Jack's room by a live electrical wire. The mummy takes immediate interest in Jack, but is rejected and mummifies him. Before Professor Dix can cut up the now-mummified Jack, she returns and saves him. Jack explains everything and the film concludes with Professor Dix marrying the mummy. The production was one of several films of the same name produced in 1911 and was met with favorable reviews.
The Mummy (1911 film) | Introduction
in 1963 by producer Jerry Warren as "Attack of the Mayan Mummy".
The Aztec Mummy | Introduction
In the late 1950s, British Hammer Film Productions took up the "Mummy" theme, beginning with "The Mummy" (1959), which, rather than being a remake of the 1932 Karloff film, is based on Universal's "The Mummy's Hand" (1940) and "The Mummy's Tomb" (1942). Hammer's follow-ups — "The Curse of The Mummy's Tomb" (1964), "The Mummy's Shroud" (1966) and "Blood from The Mummy's Tomb" (1971) — are unrelated to the first film or even to each other, apart from the appearance of "The Scroll of Life" in "Curse of The Mummy's Tomb" and "Blood from The Mummy's Tomb".
The Mummy (1932 film) | Hammer Film Productions series
Attack of the Mayan Mummy is the Americanized version of an earlier Mexican movie, "The Aztec Mummy". It was made by Jerry Warren, who removed a huge portion of the original Mexican film, replacing it with newly filmed footage featuring American actors. This solved the problem of re-dubbing the original Spanish dialogue into English. Warren released his film in 1963. He later re-released the film in 1965 on a double feature with the film "Creature of the Walking Dead". The plot of the Americanized version is similar to the original, except that the mummy kills one of the explorers, and is in turn captured by the scientists and taken back to civilization.
The Aztec Mummy | "Attack of the Mayan Mummy"
Hammer produced three other Mummy films between 1964 and 1971: These Mummy movies had stories and characters unrelated to the 1959 film and all three were relegated to second feature status, as by the mid-1960s, Hammer's films were often intended for double billing. Often two films would be shot back-to-back with the same sets and costumes to save money, and then each film would be shown on a separate double bill to prevent audiences noticing any recycling, as for example in "The Plague of the Zombies" and "The Reptile" (both 1966). "The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb" supported the slightly more prestigious "The Gorgon", whilst "The Mummy's Shroud" was a second feature for "Frankenstein Created Woman".
Hammer Film Productions | The Mummy
The film was adapted into a 12-page comic strip for the December 1977 issue of the magazine "House of Hammer" ((vol. 2) #15, published by Top Sellers Limited). It was drawn by David Jackson from a script by Donne Avenell. The cover of the issue featured a painting by Brian Lewis, depicting a scene from the movie. It was released on DVD in the U.S. in 2000 on the Anchor Bay label. It is rated PG, uncut, in the U.K., a long way from its original X certificate in the cinema. It was released on Blu-ray on 14 January 2020 by Shout Factory, with a commentary track, making-of documentary, and other extras.
The Mummy's Shroud | In other media
Schawn Belston, serving as senior vice president of library and technical services for 20th Century Fox, was put in charge of creating a restored version of the film for the company. After a two-year process in 2013 he was able to restore a four-hour, eight-minute version. One of Belston's finds for this version was the original camera negative which was shot on 65mm. (Any longer version, which has yet to be found, would have existed only to show then–studio boss Darryl F. Zanuck.) Fading and damage to the negative were corrected digitally with an eye on preserving detail and authenticity while avoiding digital manipulation.
Cleopatra (1963 film) | 50th anniversary restored version
Pleased with the Cagliostro concept, Laemmle hired John L. Balderston to write the script. Balderston had contributed to "Dracula" and "Frankenstein", and had covered the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb for "New York World" when he was a journalist so he was more than familiar with the highly popular tomb unearthing. Balderston moved the story to Egypt and renamed the film and its title character Imhotep, after the historical architect. He also changed the story from one of revenge upon all the women who resembled the main character's ex-lover to one where the main character is determined to revive his old love by killing and mummifying her reincarnated self before resurrecting her with the spell of the Scroll of Thoth.
The Mummy (1932 film) | Production
I’m no longer involved in that and have no idea what’s going on with it. I look back on it now [and] what felt painful at the time ended up being an incredible blessing for me."
The Mummy (2017 film) | Development
The Mummy's Ghost is a 1944 American Universal Studios horror film, directed by Reginald Le Borg. It is the second of three sequels to that company's "The Mummy's Hand" of 1940. The film is the sequel to "The Mummy's Tomb" (1942). Lon Chaney, Jr. again takes on the role of Kharis the mummy. The story was continued in the 1944 sequel "The Mummy's Curse".
The Mummy's Ghost | Introduction
The Mummy's Tomb is a 1942 American horror film produced by Ben Pivar for Universal Pictures Co., directed by Harold Young, and starring Lon Chaney Jr. as Kharis the mummy. It is the first of three sequels to that company's "The Mummy's Hand" of 1940.
The Mummy's Tomb | Introduction
The script progresses to a fish-out-of-water story when Imhotep, having regained his youthful appearance, recognizes the need to adapt to a contemporary society that is three thousand years removed from the one he came from. Assuming at first that he is a representative from the Bureau of Antiquities, Helen finds herself drawn into a tentative relationship with Imhotep while also experiencing clairvoyant flashbacks to a previous life in the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt as a priestess of Isis. Summoning mystical powers through incantation, Imhotep later resurrects the mummy of Karis, a loyal slave whose body had been resting alongside his master's in the same tomb but is now held in the local museum.
The Mummy (1999 film) | Origins
Furthermore, if one follows the continuity of the "Kharis" series, this film would have to take place in the late 1990s.
The Mummy's Curse | Introduction
In 2001, she and a person from her party would have their picture taken with The Mummy, and a clip about creation of the make-up effects from "The Mummy Returns" was also added. In 2004, the show was given a large re-vamping and was changed from this previous version. The lobby was again revamped in 2008, to include displays on various Universal Horror films up to "Hellboy II: The Golden Army". In 2010, the show itself was again revamped to remove the "Van Helsing" clips which were replaced with clips from Universal's "The Wolfman" remake. In 2017, it was revamped to show clips from the recent "The Mummy" remake, replacing those from "The Wolfman".
Universal's Horror Make-Up Show | Previous versions
"The Invisible Man" was never produced. Principal photography for "The Mummy" began on 23 February 1959 and lasted until 16 April 1959. Once again it starred both Peter Cushing (as John Banning) and Christopher Lee (as the Mummy, Kharis), and was directed by Terence Fisher from a screenplay from Jimmy Sangster. "The Mummy" went into general release on 23 October 1959 and broke the box-office records set by "Dracula" the previous year, both in Britain and the U.S. when it was released there in December.
Hammer Film Productions | "The Mummy"
Tale of the Mummy (also known as Russell Mulcahy's Tale of the Mummy and Talos – the Mummy) is a 1998 British-American horror film directed by Russell Mulcahy and starring Jason Scott Lee, Jack Davenport, Louise Lombard and Christopher Lee. The film received a theatrical wide release on February 13, 1999.
Tale of the Mummy | Introduction
"Dawn of the Mummy" has been released on VHS and DVD format. The film was released on region 1 by Madacy Entertainment, as a VHS transfer. The packaging is said to list the film's Theatrical Trailer and other Theatrical Trailers, although there is only one on the disc, it is not for the main feature, it is of a 1997 film, "Road Ends". It does however feature an audio commentary track by director Frank Agrama. The film was released uncut in the UK by Anchor Bay Entertainment. It features an anamorphic widescreen transfer, plus the full screen transfer, DTS Digital Surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 & 5.1 Surround.
Dawn of the Mummy | Home media
The Universal Pictures film "The Mummy" (1932) and especially the Hammer horror films "The Mummy" (1959) and "Blood from the Mummy's Tomb" (1971) influenced the story. As originally written by Lewis Greifer it was considered unworkable. Greifer was unavailable to perform rewrites, so the scripts were completely rewritten by script editor Robert Holmes. The pseudonym used on transmission was Stephen Harris. "Pyramids of Mars" contributes to the UNIT dating controversy, one of the contradictions in the "Doctor Who" universe. The exterior scenes were shot on the Stargroves estate in Hampshire, a Victorian mansion noted for its ornate, Gothic revival style of architecture which was owned by Mick Jagger at the time.
Pyramids of Mars | Production
The sequence in which the El Brendel character is revived from the dead features the first screen appearance of the spectacular electrical equipment assembled by Kenneth Strickfaden, seen again and more famously in James Whale's "Frankenstein" (1931). Over 50 special effects shots combining previously photographed backgrounds with live foreground action were accomplished using the Dunning Process. Rear projection technology of the scale and quality required was not available at the time. The set design in the form of glass pictures and miniatures was done by Stephen Goosson, Ralph Hammeras, SPFX-guru Willis O'Brien, and Marcel Delgado (all uncredited).
Just Imagine | Special effects
Imhotep is the titular antagonist in the 1932 film "The Mummy". He is also the main antagonist in the 1999 remake and its sequel "The Mummy Returns". Sofia Boutella plays a female version of this character named Ahmanet in the 2017 remake. Imhotep is loosely inspired by the historical figure Imhotep, a noted polymath and counselor to the Pharaoh Djoser in the 27th century BC.
Imhotep (The Mummy) | Introduction
"The Mummy's Hand" was distributed by Universal Pictures Co. on September 20, 1940. According to "Variety", their screening of the film had certain scenes tinted an "eerie green". The film was followed by the sequel "The Mummy's Tomb" in 1942 which followed the storyline of two key characters from "The Mummy's Hand" and included several minutes of footage from "The Mummy's Hand" flashback sequences. Unlike some of the other horror films produced by Universal, "The Mummy's Hand" was not reissued for theatrical release in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
The Mummy's Hand | Release
The film contains a number of primitive special effects, including the use of wires to move objects when the uncle sneezes, and the balancing of the camera on a rocking board to give the impression that the world is swaying in the penultimate shot. The dramatic final scene, in which the uncle explodes, was achieved by stopping the camera and replacing the actor with a small smoke-emitting device.
That Fatal Sneeze | Production
In recent times, Tim Janson of The SciFi Movie Page gave "The Mummy's Tomb" 3 1/4 stars. He writes, "Lon Chaney Jr., was a welcome addition as Kharis. He was physically more imposing than Tom Tyler or Boris Karloff". http://www.scifimoviepage.com/review-of-the-mummys-tomb-from-1942/
The Mummy's Tomb | Critical reaction
In 2012, Universal announced a reboot of the film, more in-line with the horror films, from the Universal Monsters film franchise. The reboot was directed by Alex Kurtzman. "The Mummy" was planned as the first film in a series of interconnected monster films, as Universal has planned to build a shared universe film series out of its vault of classic monster movies. On January 21, 2016 it was announced that Tom Cruise would be starring in the film. Sofia Boutella was cast to portray Princess Ahmunet / The Mummy for the film, while Russell Crowe would appear as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr.
The Mummy (1932 film) | Reboot
The show takes guests through demonstrations of the design of Universal Pictures' films special effects, which are added during a film's post-production. It includes interactive elements, and is similar to the original former Special Effects Stages version of the attraction. The live attraction has two hosts: an older, practical effects guru and a younger, digital effects artist. It lifts pieces from Universal's Horror Make-Up Show at Universal Studios Florida. On the stage there are multiple set pieces including the puppet used in , Imhotep from the 1999 film"The Mummy", and a baby triceratops from "Jurassic Park".
Special Effects Stage | Summary
Muller, Frank calls Helen back to the world of the living while the Scroll of Thoth continues to burn.
The Mummy (1932 film) | Plot
The image of Karloff wrapped in bandages has become one of the most iconic images in the series. Jack Pierce would also come to design the Satanic make-up for Lugosi in the independently produced "White Zombie" (1932).
Horror film | 1932: Edgar Allan Poe Double Feature and The Mummy
He translates the symbols and then reads the words aloud. Imhotep rises, the sight of which snaps Norton's mind and causes him to laugh hysterically, as the Mummy shuffles off with the scroll. Ten years later, Imhotep is masquerading as a modern Egyptian named Ardeth Bay covering himself with makeup. He calls upon Sir Joseph's son Frank (David Manners) and Professor Pearson (Leonard Mudie) and shows them where to dig to find the tomb of the princess Anck-su-namun. After locating the tomb, the archaeologists present its treasures to the Cairo Museum and thank Ardeth for making their discovery possible. It is further revealed that Imhotep's horrific death was punishment for sacrilege: attempting to resurrect his forbidden lover, Princess Anck-su-namun.
The Mummy (1932 film) | Plot
Fulton eventually became head of the special effects department at Universal. Fulton followed his early success as special effects supervisor with a number of memorable films, many of them of the horror film genre, including John Ford's "Air Mail" and "The Mummy" in 1932. The following year he created some of the most astounding effects of the time in "The Invisible Man" as well as 1935's "Bride of Frankenstein". Between other film projects, he worked on the special effects for three sequels to the successful "Invisible Man", and received Academy Award nominations for his work in all three films, as well as the 1940 musical "The Boys from Syracuse".
John P. Fulton | Biography
However, Egyptologist Stuart Tyson Smith notes that ‘the idea of mobile mummies was not entirely alien to ancient Egypt’, citing one of the Hellenistic-era stories of Setna Khaemwas, which features both the animated mummy of Naneferkaptah and a fictional "Book of Thoth" and may have inspired screenwriter John Balderston.
The Mummy (1932 film) | Historical accuracy
"The Mummy's Curse" was released on DVD in 2009 as part of the Universal Legacy Collection. It was also released on Blu-Ray in 2016 with the same "Mummy" films, including one starring Abbott and Costello. The only special feature on the single disc is the theatrical trailer, while the other films have making-of documentaries, trailers, commentaries, interviews, and original poster artwork.
The Mummy's Curse | Home media
The original synopsis of the film was published in the "Moving Picture World" as follows: "Professor Dix has won fame as a scientist and has collected many objects of Egyptian ware, centuries old, that arouse the enthusiasm of his associates. Even Jack Thornton, an active, go-ahead young businessman, is interested in the professor's home, but although he tries to pretend it is Egyptology which interests him, the professor's fair young daughter is really the lodestone. Jack decides to win the old man's respect by posing as an Egyptologist himself. To start his collection, he purchases a mummy at an auction sale, and takes it home expecting that later he can make a great hit with his sweetheart's father, by presenting it to him as a gift.
The Mummy (1911 film) | Plot
The film received generally negative reviews from critics and despite grossing $410 million worldwide, it was considered a box-office bomb, losing the studio as much as $95 million.
The Mummy (2017 film) | Introduction
With the city sinking back into the sand at the end of "The Mummy", in the sequel viewers see excavation attempts near the beginning of the film. Characters Meela Nais, the museum curator Hafez, and Lock-Nah oversee the excavation of Imhotep's resin-covered corpse, which they then reanimate.
Hamunaptra | "The Mummy Returns" (2001)
"The Mummy"s box office performance led to numerous sequels and spinoffs. The film sequel "The Mummy Returns" (2001) features most of the surviving principal characters. As a married couple, Rick and Evelyn confront Imhotep and the Scorpion King. The film also introduces the heroes' son, Alex. The two films inspired both an animated TV series titled "The Mummy", which lasted two seasons, and a spin-off prequel, "The Scorpion King" (2002), which tells the story of the Akkadian warrior as he was crowned king. It also includes three sequels and one prequel.
The Mummy (1999 film) | Adaptations
Footage from this film, as well as numerous unused scenes and outtakes, went into a stock footage library. This footage was then used by numerous companies through the years by producers who wanted to save money on costly effects shots in special effects films that featured dinosaurs. As well, even a few Westerns used footage of rockslides and volcanoes from this film too. Because of this, footage from this film appeared in numerous films throughout the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. These films include: "Tarzan's Desert Mystery" (1943), one of the chapters of the serial "Superman" (1948), "Atom Man vs. Superman" (1950), "Two Lost Worlds" (1950), "The Lost Volcano" (1950; the Bomba, the Jungle Boy series), the American version of "Godzilla Raids Again", "Jungle Manhunt" (1951; the Jungle Jim series), "Smoky Canyon" (1952), the "Yesterday's World" episode of "The Schaefer Century Theatre" (1952), "Untamed Women" (1952), "Robot Monster" (1953), "The Lost Planet" (1953), "King Dinosaur" (1955), the Three Stooges short "Space Ship Sappy" (1957), "Teenage Caveman" (1958), "She Demons" (1958), "Valley of the Dragons" (1961), "Journey to the Center of Time" (1967), "Horror of the Blood Monsters" (1970; the stock footage was tinted in color for this film), the Mexican films "Island of the Dinosaurs" ('La isla de los dinosaurios" 1967), "Adventure at the Center of the Earth" ("Aventura al centro de la tierra"; 1966), and "The Ghost Jesters" ("Los fantasmas burlones"; 1964), "One Million AC/DC" (1970), "TerrorVision", and "Attack of the B Movie Monster" (1989).
One Million B.C. | Legacy
In May 1996, 20th Century Studios acquired the film rights to Anne Rice's "The Mummy" from Carolco with Cameron set to direct before the rights lapsed.
James Cameron's unrealized projects | Anne Rice's "The Mummy"
The Secret of the Mummy () is a 1921 German silent crime film directed by Victor Janson and starring Ferdinand von Alten, Aud Egede-Nissen, and Magnus Stifter. It is part of the Joe Deebs detective series. Originally shot in 1916, it did not go on general release until 1921. The film's sets were designed by the art director Kurt Richter.
The Secret of the Mummy | Introduction
Initially scheduled for a 2016 release, the film was released in the United States and Canada on June 9, 2017, with international roll out beginning the same day. The film was screened in various formats, such as 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D. On December 20, 2016, IMAX released a trailer with the wrong audio track attached; this unintentionally prompted the creation of memes and video montages featuring the mistakenly included audio track, which was missing most of the sound effects and instead featured Tom Cruise's grunts and screams. IMAX reacted by taking down the trailer and issuing DMCA takedown notices in an attempt to stop it from spreading.
The Mummy (2017 film) | Release
Cavett Binion of AllMovie referred to the film as a "tedious effort" that was "padded out with deadly-dull exposition". Mike Haberfelner of SearchMyTrash.com wrote: "...nothing really happens in the newly shot footage, it just shows characters commenting on what has just happened in the Mexican footage or contemplating what will happen - and it all seems to serve primarily one purpose: To avoid having to dub and lip-synch too much dialogue of the original footage. The result is so bad in fact that the film has come to be known as a trash masterpiece."
The Aztec Mummy | Reception
The filming of Dracula's destruction included a shot in which Dracula appears to peel away his decaying skin. This was accomplished by putting a layer of red makeup on Lee's face, and then covering his entire face with a thin coating of mortician's wax, which was then made up to conform to his normal skin tone. When he raked his fingers across the wax, it revealed the "raw" marks underneath. This startling sequence was cut out, but was restored for the 2012 Blu-ray release, using footage from a badly damaged Japanese print.
Dracula (1958 film) | Special effects
Méliès appears in the film as the priest. The special effects were created with stage machinery (including trapdoors), substitution splices, and superimpositions; the dancing skeleton was a marionette controlled by wires.
The Monster (1903 film) | Production
Acquanetta was originally cast as Amina Mansori, but on the first day of shooting, while enacting a fainting scene, Acquanetta fell on a rock she thought was papier-mâché. She was taken to the hospital and treated for her concussion. But Universal, not wanting to hold up on production, replaced her with actress and pin-up beauty Ramsay Ames. In the scene in which an enraged Kharis destroys a museum room and kills the watchman, Chaney broke a real glass, a piece of which flew up and cut his chin through the rubber mummy mask. He can be seen bleeding on camera.
The Mummy's Ghost | Production
The film's special effects were created by Clifford Stine, whose career began in 1933 with "King Kong." Alternate takes from Universal's "It Came from Outer Space" (1953), which Stine also created, were used for the meteor crash in the film's opening sequence.
The Monolith Monsters | Special effects
It is the year 1923 and Richard “Rick” O'Connell, an American explorer, has discovered Hamunaptra, the city of the dead. Three years later, he meets with a beautiful librarian, Evelyn "Evy" Carnahan and her brother, Jonathan. When Evy accidentally revives the mummified corpse of an Egyptian priest, Imhotep, the pair must find a way to kill him before he rises back into power and destroys the world.
The Mummy (franchise) | "The Mummy" (1999)
While the mummy is in Jack's room, a live electric wire is by accident brought in contact with it. The body has been so perfectly mummified, that the electric current is all that is necessary to ignite the vital spark, and Jack is amazed to see dancing forth from the case which he thought contained only unattractive rags and bones, a beautiful Egyptian princess. As soon as she is released, the mummy makes violent love to Jack, and causes his sweetheart to quarrel with him (for how can a plain businessman explain the presence in his room of a beautiful barbarian?).
The Mummy (1911 film) | Plot
The Mummy's Curse is a 1944 American Universal Pictures horror film, directed by Leslie Goodwins. It is the third and final sequel to that company's "The Mummy's Hand" of 1940. The film is the sequel to "The Mummy's Ghost" (1944). The film is the fifth entry in Universal Pictures' original "Mummy" franchise. It marks Lon Chaney, Jr.'s final appearance as Kharis, the Egyptian mummy. The action of this film, which continues the story of Kharis and his beloved Princess Ananka, is supposed to take place in the same swampy location that was the setting of "The Mummy's Ghost". But while the earlier movie was explicitly set in rural Massachusetts, this film strongly implies that the swamp is in Louisiana, with references to Cajuns and bayous.
The Mummy's Curse | Introduction
"Dawn of the Mummy" was filmed in Egypt with a mostly Italian crew leading many to mistake it as an Italian film. Unlike traditional interpretations of mummies in cinema, the film's portrayal of the undead is quite unique. In the film the mummies are portrayed as ravenous flesh eaters, similar to the popular portrayal of zombies in which both share many similarities. Due to the film's surprisingly graphic content the film was subject to several cuts in the UK in order to trim down the film's more graphic scenes, approximately 1 minute and 43 seconds were cut from 12 different scenes in the film.
Dawn of the Mummy | Production