Review #222: The Mummy (1932)
This review was originally written in October 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #76: The Mummy (1932) Man, this is another example of a movie that is NOTHING like its successors. I don't know what I expected from a Mummy movie but it certainly wasn't THIS. The Mummy starts off with an archaeological dig where a mummified Egyptian prince named Imhotep has been discovered, as has a box bearing a warning of a deadly curse and containing a scroll that grants power over life and death. Despite warnings against provoking the curse, one of the excavators opens it and transcribes part of the scroll, awakening the mummified Imhotep, who takes the scroll and leaves. Ten years later (!) Imhotep shows back up posing as a normal person, and tries to use magic to locate the reincarnated form of a woman he loved in life, but things get complicated I guess and it doesn't go according to plan. This movie is kind of bonkers. The eponymous Mummy is only seen wrapped up as a...