Very well executed

Lack of good storyline.

Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Even lower-end Hammer films tend to be worth a watch, and this follow up to THE MUMMY is no exception. Despite the extraordinarily slow pacing (the first hour of the film does nothing except to set up the various characters and their relationships), the production values – even in a film relatively cheap by Hammer standards – are top drawer, the costumes and sets are fun (love those Egyptian backlots), and there's even a smattering of graphic gore for those who enjoy that kind of thing. Imagine the year this film was made. Now watch the film complete with multiple hand-choppings, bludgeoning, beating and – most graphic of all – an offscreen but horrific (thanks to the sound effects guy) head-crushing underfoot – and you can imagine that the film must have been considered pretty terrible when it was first released. Sure, today it seems tame, but I still get a kick out of gruesomeness that is readily achieved WITHOUT excessive bloodshed and through imagination more than anything else.The storyline is very predictable and doesn't need re-telling here, other than it contains the usual themes of cursed siblings (one good, one evil), the mummy falling in love with a beautiful girl, immortality and the bumping off of those who first defiled the Egyptian tomb. The leading characters all seem pretty stuffy but the actors do manage to put in more than adequate performances (aside from Jeanne Roland, who's pretty but hopelessly miscast). Terence Morgan is devilishly evil as the slick bad guy; Ronald Howard more than acceptable as the decent hero; Fred Clark steals the show as a P.T. Barnum-style sideshow hustler who wants to get the mummy working for HIM. Then there's a trio of great supporting performances from George Pastell, Michael Ripper (killed all too early), and Jack Gwillim.The mummy makeup is imposing but not necessarily all that scary, and an interesting touch has the mummy heavy breathing as he goes about his business, kind of like a prototype Darth Vader! After the slow first hour, things pick up for the climax, throwing in some genuinely nasty shocks (one death scene is one of the juiciest in the whole Hammer repertoire) and a climax that must have seemed good on paper but doesn't work all so well. Would sewers really collapse that easily? Still, despite the ambiguity of the climax, this is a fun enough ride for genre fans content to happily sit through well-done ripe dialogue and costume drama to get to the good gruesomeness.

This is not that bad of a mummy movie. It's no where near as good as The Mummy (1932) with Boris Karloff but it is almost as good as the Kharis mummy series (Tom Tyler & Lon Chaney Jr as the mummy for that series). Nor is this film quite as good as The Mummy (1959) with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee (as Kharis) BUT I do feel that The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964) is an underrated mummy movie on IMDb.Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964) is about Egyptian prince Ra aka Ra-Antef - the Mummy. His tomb was discovered by Egyptologists and they are wanting to display and tour with the discovered mummy. But someone decides to resurrect the mummy... who and why? Overall a fun but underrated film. Worth watching if you like mummy movies.7/10

This is obviously an old school horror movie from Hammer Studios. It starts out a little slow but picks up as it goes on. One of the opening scenes is a bit confusing with one of the archeologists tied to two posts. A nomad (?) shows and knifes the guy and then cuts off his left hand. The hand and knife show up a little later in the research teams tents. Discovering the tomb of an Egyptian prince. They excavate the tomb find the mummy and other artifacts. The financial sponsor for the dig, an American showman, decides to take the whole shebang on a tour of America. Well it leads to several dead witnesses of the opening of the sarcophagus. Turns out Ra's younger brother who actually responsible his murder has been cursed with eternal life unless Ra kills him with his own hand. Well this happens and taking the necklace with the "Words of Life" on it he then destroys himself.

All Hammer Movies had that look. They had a way of presenting Color in a formula of their own design and it is part of their appeal to this day. In a word, it is sumptuous. Here we have the Studio's second Mummy Movie as our old friend is awakened once again to materialize the proverbial Curse. It has a rather talky first half but the verbiage is slightly interesting and the "Mummy as Sideshow" is a new take. The second half kicks into gear and moves quite energetically, well as energetic as a Mummy can be. He seems determined to wreak the necessary havoc and does so quite brutally.In the finale things really come together with a Plot twist and an exciting chase through the sewers. Overall, this is mid-range Hammer and that is almost always better than the Studio's contemporaries. Definitely worth a view for Hammer, Horror, and B-Movie Fans.