Friday, October 02, 2009
The 31 Days of Horror: Day 2
Karl Freund's 1932 classic The Mummy is not only a highlight of the great golden age of horror cinema, it holds up as one of the greatest horror films ever created. Period.
Boris Karloff delivers an iconic, multi-faceted performance as the mummy Im-ho-tep and his alter ego Ardath Bey. However, it's Freund's arresting visual direction and Charles J. Stumar's cinematography that really put The Mummy on the map, creating horror conventions still in use today.
Don't believe me?
Head to Facets tonight at MIDNIGHT and experience The Mummy as you never have before at Facets FRIGHT School. For our inaugural session, Facets' Susan Doll will present, "In the Beginning There Was Universal: The Establishment of the Hollywood Horror Genre," where she'll explore this Universal horror classic and explain how the studio established the Hollywood horror genre with its many popular monster films in the 1930s-50s. A screening and post-screening Q&A follow the lecture. All for only 5 dollars.
This is essential for all horror fans. Do this.
-Phil Morehart
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Karloff does a nice job -- he is such a horror icon, it is easy to forget how the subtle choices he made as an actor really add to the film. Nice production, too. That scroll looks like it could be 5000 years old.
I'd love to see what the Joe Dante-John Sayles-Daniel Day Lewis remake would have looked like, which would have been a "contemporary" piece, rather than the "period" piece that the 1999 remake became.
On the plus side, the remake did have Rachel Weisz, so that's a good thing. What someone said below about Amy Landecker also goes for Ms. Weisz: "Hatchi Matchi!"
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