59 - The Mummy

    A mummy is inadvertently resurrected, and proceeds to try to resurrect his love, who was also buried 3,700 years prior.  He needs to use a descendent of the original though.
    The original Universal horror movie, I found this to be an unusual production.  It's horror, but it doesn't seem to be especially tense.  The mummy doesn't even seem to be especially threatening, just awkward.  But it's not especially dramatic either.  By modern standards, I'm not sure what type of movie it was.
    Regardless, I found this more watchable than Dracula, probably because there's a stricter focus on keeping the story going, and the script makes better sense.  Then again, the movie does have a strange problem; it keeps trying to emulate Dracula.  This makes a lot of sense.  There wasn't as much information about what it was that the public liked to see in movies, and they knew that Dracula was a hit, so they felt like it needed to be aped.  This shows up in specific shots, as well as a scientist character that seems to play things a lot like Van Helsing.
    There was one real standout in the production, and that's the female lead - Zita Johann.  Her appearance is really noteworthy.  Huge eyes.  Her deliveries are interesting as well.  She stands out as not being quite as hammy as most of the cast.