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| Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971) An archaelogical expedition brings back the coffin of an Egyptian queen known for her magic powers to London. Her spirit takes on the shape of a young girl and strange things starts to happen. This is by a long way the best of the three adaptations so far of Bram Stoker's complex and disturbing novel of an Egyptologist's obsessive desire to revive an evil ancient Egyptian queen. (The novel was so worrying in 1903 that the ending was changed for the second edition: this movie keeps mainly to the original ending.) The cast ranges from competent to quite good, with the Queen/daughter suitably seductive but unreadable. The appearance is handsomely and oppressively Edwardian - the ancient Egyptian is rather silly - and the direction firm. Try this as a better taste of Stoker's obsessive psychological horror than any of the versions of "Dracula" except the long British TV adaptation. |
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| Andrew Keir as Julian Fuchs Valerie Leon as Margaret Fuchs/Queen Tera James Villiers as Corbeck Hugh Burden as Geoffrey Dandridge George Coulouris as Berigan Mark Edwards as Tod Browning Rosalie Crutchley as Helen Dickerson Aubrey Morris as Doctor Putnam David Markham as Doctor Burgess Joan Young as Mrs. Caporal James Cossins as Older Male Nurse |
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