Tag Archives: Mummy
Fade to Black (1980)
Movie-obsessed Eric Binford (Dennis Christopher, Stephen King’s It) lives with his wheelchair-bound aunt (Eve Brent), spending most of his time inside a womb-like room plastered with vintage celebrity stills and film posters, watching old films on a small black-and-white TV … Continue reading
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Tagged 80's, Dennis Christopher, Dracula, Hopalong Cassidy, horror, James Cagney, Linda Kerridge, Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Rourke, Mummy, Slasher, Tim Thomerson, Vernon Zimmerman
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Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971)
Hammer’s Mummy series, unlike its Frankensteins and Draculas, offered no continuity between installments, which were released only sporadically. Following Terence Fisher’s The Mummy (1959), which capped a classic Peter Cushing/Christopher Lee monster trilogy that began with The Curse of Frankenstein … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Andrew Keir, Hammer, horror, Michael Carreras, Mummy, Seth Holt, severed hand, Valerie Leon
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The Mummy (1959)
The Mummy (1959) was the third in Hammer’s classic trilogy of Peter Cushing/Christopher Lee match-ups, revisiting and revitalizing classic monsters of horror. The first, The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), completely reimagined the Mary Shelley novel and, like the studio’s earlier SF … Continue reading
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Tagged 50's, Christopher Lee, Egypt, Hammer, horror, Mummy, Peter Cushing
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