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Fri Aug 31 2001 at 21:04:24
Reasons why the
1932
production of
The Mummy
kicks serious ass:
Its star was billed as "
Karloff
the
Uncanny
".
Hours were spent devising realistic
mummy
makeup, hours were spent applying it to Karloff, he was forced to
shamble
around in it under hot studio lights...yet the audience never sees it in its entirety. In an era where directors can't wait to wave their expensive
special-effects
toys in your face, such restraint in the service of creepiness is a miracle to behold.
It contains the second-scariest
laugh
in movie history, when an archaeologist is driven
mad
at the sight of the resurrected Karloff. (The scariest laugh of course belongs to
Dwight Frye
as Renfield in
Dracula
.)
Karloff's deep-set
eyes
,
burning
like live coals in his gaunt, leathery face as he telepathically
murders
his enemies.
Director
Karl Freund
. He worked as a cameraman for
F.W. Murnau
(
Nosferatu
),
Fritz Lang
(
Metropolis
), and
Tod Browning
(
Dracula
) before his directorial debut here, and you can't ask for a better pedigree than that in the world of
1930s
cinematic
horror
.
Karloff just being Karloff. He radiates
lethal
menace
in every scene, like a
cobra
ready to strike. You can't take your eyes off the man.
The next time someone puts his mitts on you uninvited, think,
What Would Imhotep Do?
Then fix them with an subzero stare and say, "I prefer not to be touched."
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