The Mummy's Shroud

When I was about twelve, Swedish television aired a number of old horror movies during a summer. I was allowed to watch Dracula, Frankenstein, Frankenstein’s Bride, The Werewolf, The Mummy and The Monster From the Black Lagoon with my parent’s, but they vetoed The Portrait of Dorian Grey. Very wise of them, because I snuck out of bed and watched it on the sly and was deeply traumatized by the ending. And I couldn’t tell them, because they had told me to go to bed. But the lasting expression was an obsession with vampires and a deep love for old horror movies. I don’t care about modern horrors at all, what I want is those hammy movies that was made in the 1930’s-60’s.

The 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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The Mummy's Shroud

When I was about twelve, Swedish television aired a number of old horror movies during a summer. I was allowed to watch Dracula, Frankenstein, Frankenstein’s Bride, The Werewolf, The Mummy and The Monster From the Black Lagoon with my parent’s, but they vetoed The Portrait of Dorian Grey. Very wise of them, because I snuck out of bed and watched it on the sly and was deeply traumatized by the ending. And I couldn’t tell them, because they had told me to go to bed. But the lasting expression was an obsession with vampires and a deep love for old horror movies. I don’t care about modern horrors at all, what I want is those hammy movies that was made in the 1930’s-60’s.

The 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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