The Mummy (1932)

Name: The Mummy (1932)
Released: 1932-12-22
Cast: Boris Karloff, David Manners, Zita Johann, Edward Van Sloan, Arthur Byron

The Mummy (1932)

NR
1h 13m
1932

93%

age 9+

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Boris Karloff's legendary performance as The Mummy has become a landmark in the annals of screen history. When Egyptian mummy Im-Ho-Tep is accidentally revived after 3,700 years, it is revealed in a flashback that he was a high priest, embalmed alive for trying to revive his true love after she had been sacrificed. Alive again, he sets out on an obsessive - and deadly - quest to find his lost love. The Mummy remains a masterpiece not only of the genre, but of all time.

Director:

Karl Freund

Producer:

Karl Freund

Writer:

John L. Balderston

Cast:

Boris Karloff, David Manners, Zita Johann, Edward Van Sloan, Arthur Byron, Bramwell Fletcher

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

93%

Critics Consensus: Relying more on mood and atmosphere than the thrills typical of modern horror fare, Universal's The Mummy sets a masterful template for mummy-themed films to follow.

Reviews

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Sarah Boslaugh

Karloff delivers perhaps his finest acting performance in The Mummy, creating a sympathetic and di...

Basically the Dracula story set in Egypt. Karloff plays a very wrinkly mummy-come-to-life who like...

A Dracula rip-off that is, in fact, considerably better than Dracula in almost every regard.

Master photographer Karl Freund directs without shock tactics -- apart from the burying alive scen...

This vintage classic is more funny than scary.

June 22, 2017

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Common Sense Media

age 9+

Common Sense Says

This vintage classic is more funny than scary.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that kids will see two mummy-related deaths (a museum guard dies of shock off-camera; an archaeologist succumbs to mumbo jumbo). A few Egyptian slaves are run through with spears. Sensitive kids may find a living mummy mildly distressing -- and be disturbed by the Egyptian king who is mummified and entombed alive.