The Mummy's Shroud
May. 28th, 2015 03:55 pmThe Mummy’s Shroud, a Hammer Horror movie from 1967 fits the bill perfectly, but I hadn’t actually seen it before, I hunted it out when because Roger Delgado is in it. It’s set in 1920 (lucky they tell us as everyone ins dressed in 60’s clothing) when an expedition find the tomb of a child pharaoh, buried in the desert by his faithful servant. They bring him back to Cairo, displaying him alongside the mummy of that very servant. The tomb also has a very living guardian who, with the help of the shroud in the title, resurrects the servant who then kills off all the members of the expedition apart from the hero and heroine.
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