The Mummy Starring Boris Karloff 1932

[demonio2500]

only for kids

[demonio2500]

its a joke

[LindaC781]

Now THIS is a Mummy Movie!! The HELL with that crap in the sand!!

[Tessmage]

The early scene in this film, where karloff first comes to life, is one of the most scary moments in the history of horror films. It still holds up beautifully today -- nearly 80 years later. The reason is because unlike modern directors, Karl Freund knew that sometimes, what you DO NOT see can be more frightening than simply showing you everything on a silver platter.

[dltanner99]

Horror novel  see video book trailer

[balrog13571]

Mummy movies don't get nearly enough credit as they should.

[hampsterbrick]

karloff is a great horror actor! he is the king of horror movies!!!

[MORKOS621]

Screen Gems? I thought The Mummy was from Universal.

[blondie19651]

classic to stand time,great actors,that give you imagination that people of today forgot to use

[trex6321]

great horror film karloff and lugosi never liked each othe but there films are classics loveem both

[jgray110]

He was one defined cool horror movies for fiftes and sixties kids, flashing electrodes, bipolar experiments, hungry mutants

[EpicOberon]

The best movie monster actor ever. That is next to Lugosi and Chaney Sr. and Jr.

[fairiegirlga]

I always thought the story of "The Mummy" was so sad, lovers never to be, killed for loving a princess, buried alive, and only wanting your love to be by your side, such a sad story,,,,,

[Extratexture4]

@fairiegirlga, that's the one common thread all the Universal Monster have. They're all lovelorn.

[ursulaheppworth]

I think I may have been Married to this mummy..he was a bit if a corpse himself...haha

[geinman1287]

This was the real film, not that awful remake. Karloff managed to be both sinister and sympathetic at the same time. Too bad they cut the reincarnation scenes with Zita Johan. They would have been great.

[KTBEverlasting]

@geinman1287 The remake was adventure. This one was horror. Both are good in their own way.

[MORKOS621]

@KTBEverlasting There were some pretty scary scenes in the remake. Who wants to be half blind in the vowels of a necropolis while being stalked by something that shouldn't be alive? Of course, Arnold Vosloo is no Boris Karloff.

[KTBEverlasting]

@MORKOS621 True, but he did kind of creep me out when I saw it. Of course, I was 8 or 9.

[MORKOS621]

@KTBEverlasting That bug coming out of the hole in his cheek.

[KTBEverlasting]

@MORKOS621 Oh, God. Then he ate it. *shudders*

[MORKOS621]

@KTBEverlasting I think, though, that they made a mistake with that one. He wasn't supposed to eat, remember?

[MORKOS621]

@KTBEverlasting Ardeth Bey said, "He will not sleep, he will not eat, he will not rest." or something like that.

[KTBEverlasting]

@MORKOS621 "He will never sleep. He will never eat. He will never stop." I think that's what he said. I need to watch the movie. I love the Mummy and Mummy 2. The third was...uh...alright. LOL

[MORKOS621]

@KTBEverlasting There are actually 0 movies entitled The Mummy. The second one starred Christopher Lee and was from Hammer. It had more in common with the mummy movies of the 40s, but had elements of the Karloff version. The mummy character was Kharis, not Imhotep, but he was a priest, not a prince, and a scroll was used to bring him back to life. And the character of Sir Joseph Whemple appeared.

[KTBEverlasting]

@MORKOS621 All I remember is that the bug crawled out of his face then back in and he started biting and chewing the thing. He didn't do it in the script, but that was the rough draft, I think.

[johnbambammorgan]

WHO plays the mummy himself in this Movie?

[h0zana]

Boris Karloff.

[johnbambammorgan]

@h0zana Is Boris playing two roles?

[h0zana]

It's just one character but he has two names; Imhotep (while he's an ancient Egyptian priest and mummy), and Ardas Bey (while he's wearing a dress and a fez). Have you seen the movie? Do you know if it's available anywhere on youtube?

[johnbambammorgan]

It's been long time since I've seen it. I ask because I'm in the process of turning every classic Black & White movie to Duo-Tone Colorization and Remastered audio to Stereo enhanced Dolby Digital 2.0. I love the Duo-tone color and these are all going on a large 1.5TB hard drive in RAW Mpeg2 format so i just needed to know who the mummy character was in this one.

[h0zana]

Very interesting! What will you do with the movies once you've done all that? Post them online, I hope?

[johnbambammorgan]

Hmm, post online? mpeg2? they are the same or larger then normal dvd size. Not sure yet. I'm at just over 200 movies completed, every universal horror and all the best in all genre's.

[johnbambammorgan]

Some people might think this is the same as SEPIA, it's not. B&W is Duo-Tone, my Duo-Tone keep the White but adds a skin tone color but yet the blacks still come out black, it's really the best colorization aside from the real true painstaking frame by frame colorization studio's can do. What a pain for that process.

[johnbambammorgan]

I'll try one movie to convert it to .wmv and see how the quality will look. The sound will be alright but need to test the video quality. I did try one movie in H.264 but it started taking so damn long i gave up. I figured NO WAY am i gonna go through all this time per movie, I'm already spending a great deal per movie with all my special processing enhancements.

Wanna see a sample? contact me directly with your email and i can send it in attachment.

same scene both examples.

[JaelNaomi]

I LOVE when the blonde guy sees the mummy and screams. Priceless!!! Great clip!

[17musickchic17]

its where they got the mummy from with brendan fraiser..

[Carnege32]

stfu , bela lugosi !

[cha5]

Karloff and Lugosi were both outstanding

and it's kind of pointless to say one was better than the other IMHO.

[Horrorfilm101]

Karloff is the king of black and white horror.

nuff said.

[eddyvilca74]

one clasic movie of horror all times