Critics at the time called it "the best-looking horror film ever made." Today, it holds a 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
In the drawing room, the Mummy stood over the sarcophagus of Ananka. It seemed almost gentle now, its clay-encrusted hands hovering over the face of its lost love. But as Matthew entered, the creature turned. The dark void behind the bandage mask fixed upon him.