Horror
The Mummy
Avg rating 7.5 / My rating TBC
1932 · Directed by Karl Freund · With Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners
- Universal Horror
- Horror
- Classical Hollywood
- Early Sound
An archaeological expedition in Egypt opens a sealed casket and, through one careless act, sets something in motion that was meant to stay buried. Ten years on, the consequences reach a circle of Englishmen in Cairo. A slow, atmospheric gothic chiller from the Universal horror cycle.
Film info
- Runtime
- 1h 13m · 73 min
- Format
- Black and white, in the standard 1.37:1 frame of the early sound era. Violence is mostly implied, with little onscreen gore.
- IMDb
- 6.9 / 10 (32,775 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 90% (critics)
- TMDB
- 6.7 / 10 (audience, 729 votes)
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