Very best movie i ever watch

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

I always tend to steer clear of 'Mummy' films, not for any Oedipal reasons, but because they can get a bit bogged down in Egyptian mythology and more particularly because the wrapped ones tend to move so slowly. In fact, in this one the movement is pretty good, its only a stunt man in there so no attempt at Shakespearean style overacting and generally he's okay. All around him it is very much , the 'B' team except for Jeanne Roland, who does well and looks lovely, but is lumbered with an awfully dubbed voice. The opening scenes with amateurish backcloths are risible and then the film stops for about fifty minutes before an excellent ending. The good old stunt man takes Jeanne down into the sewers and with excellent photography the film really comes alive. Bit late though and it is clear that this film made to fit into a double bill is fit for nothing else.

A shame, because a lot of Hammer's films are great or at least very entertaining. But unlike 1959's The Mummy directed by Terrence Fisher and starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb is not one of their finest hours. Not unwatchable by all means but very much a lesser effort for them.The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb is a good-looking film at least, thankfully not having the rushed and made-on-the-quick-and-cheap production values of the Universal Kharis Mummy films. The chilling Hammer atmosphere is present in how the film looks, with the sumptuous Gothic sets, lush photography that does a fine job evoking some atmosphere, much tighter editing and rich bold colours. The music score is hauntingly stirring, and while The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb is too often dull it really does pick up in the final twenty minutes. The final twenty minutes make the film, with the film being at its most horrifying and suspenseful by some considerable distance, with some gruesome but not overly-gratuitous shocks(i.e. the amputation scene) and a tense and exciting sewer chase.Regarding the acting, the supporting cast fare far better than the leads. George Pastell brings a lot of charisma to his role, Jack Gwillum is movingly sympathetic and in particular Fred Clark plays a very sleazy character with intensity and lively and often funny comic timing. The very much-forgotten Dickie Owen, while just lacking the imposing creepiness of Christopher Lee and the pathos of Boris Karloff(much better than Lon Chaney Jnr though, at least Owen's heart seemed in it), is still a very formidable Mummy and is aided by some cool make-up. One just wishes he was on screen for longer and was introduced earlier.On the other hand, the pacing really hurts The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb. It starts off well, but for at least three quarters of an hour(most of the film), the film is very tediously paced and painfully predictable, with the less eventful scenes dragging interminably and even with a few surprise twists here and there everything just felt very over-familiar. There is very little tension, thrills or sense of dread or horror, further let down by a pointless and saccharinely written love triangle that takes up far too much of the film. It also feels far too talky and stilted, with the romantic parts being truly banal, the humour while sometimes amusing and well-played at other points overdone, unneeded or not the best placed and the speeches, sideshows and history lessons didn't properly maintain interest.While the supporting cast acquit themselves well, the three leads aren't too great. Ronald Howard is the least bad, but he has given far more involved performances, he has presence but at other points he sleepwalks through his role. Terrence Morgan is a wooden bore, though that his character is very underwritten doesn't help in, but Jeanne Roland fares the worst. Despite her exotic looks, Roland spends the entire time looking lost and is not always easy to understand, at worst incomprehensible. Michael Carreras has his moments, he shines in the last act with some of his visual directing and storytelling being almost worthy of the best of Hammer, but most of it sadly is very routine, competent and technically accomplished but he forgets to make the story and characters interesting so fails to engage the viewer as a result.All in all, despite it coming to life in the last twenty minutes amongst a few other things, The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb is one of the lesser and duller Hammer films. 5/10 Bethany Cox

It's hard to think of another actress's role that is so thankless and unsympathetic as the one assigned here to Jeanne Roland. She comes across as an uncaring wanton; her father dies, and she's next seen, without a care in the world, carousing on a ship with her boyfriend. Her boyfriend is knocked out on the ship, and, minutes later, she's drinking and flirting with a stranger instead of being at her friend's bedside. The boyfriend is then knocked unconscious again, and, again, she's drinking and canoodling callously with this stranger as though oblivious to all except her voracious libido. She comes across as a lascivious nymph, and I was left hoping the Mummy would do her in to save the boyfriend the trouble! It all made a mediocre film even more ludicrous!

I hate to admit it, but I watched an entire evening of mummy movies courtesy of our Turner Classic Movies over the weekend. I hate to admit it because this monster has to be one of the most boring in the pantheon of creatures.Worse, "The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb" spends more time on character development than it does on visits from the title monster. The mummy only makes a couple of appearances and these are fleeting and in the second half of the picture.This entry also suffers from some major pacing issues. The story moves so slowly that I was able to leave the room on several occasions, fix myself a snack, take a stroll around the block, and by my return I hadn't missed a single thing.In short, "The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb" needed a lot more mummy and a lot less interaction between the archaeologists who were trailing him. I do give it points for the plot about the mummy having an evil brother.