The film has worthwhile moments and strong performances but ultimately feels a bit lesser than the other Universal Monster films. It always feels like it is on the verge of being something great but it never reaches that.

| Oct 31, 2023

It’s a shame that when audiences today hear the word “mummy” in relation to cinema, they think of that middling Brendan Fraser film and its imbecilic sequels (or, worse, that Godawful Dark Universe nonsense with Tom Cruise). This version is the real deal.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 14, 2023

The Mummy remains a classic staple of horror and the mummy genre, transforming itself to the immortality of cinematic history.

| Feb 8, 2022

Karloff's eyes glow with otherworldly menace...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 28, 2022

Karloff delivers the kind of singular performance that carries the entire film. The indomitably cool Ardeth Bay remains one of the genre's defining achievements.

| Oct 13, 2021

It is not by any means a good film. Nor is it the peer of melodramas. But it does offer a certain thrill to those who are looking for such things.

| Oct 8, 2020

One looks forward with vivid expectation to seeing how the centuries-dead creature will react to the sights and sounds of the present day. But the further the story goes, the more thoroughly it lapses into the worn-out hocus-pocus of melodrama.

| Oct 8, 2020

The Mummy, although It reveals that master of makeup Karloff in the weirdest of his movie disguises to date, is somewhat less horrifying than Frankenstein and less skilfully produced than Dracula, which it seems to resemble in its general design.

| Oct 8, 2020

[Director Karl Freund] employs some good moving camera tricks and presents tremendously effective full-sized close ups of Boris Karloff.

| Oct 8, 2020

Karloff makes a wonderful creation from this strange sort. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 8, 2020

The Mummy owes a great deal to Willy Pogany, artist, illustrator, and mural painter, who designed its sets.

| Oct 8, 2020

As in Frankenstein, Karloff's ability to communicate through his makeup is vital to establishing his character, even in human form, it's clearly pain and not incarnate evil that dictates his actions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 8, 2020

The most meditative of classic frights is an unanswerable drift of obsession, laid out by Karl Freund as a fugue of stillness and movement, indelibly embodied by Karloff as a decrepit vessel pulled onward by a wandering spirit's erotic torment.

| Oct 8, 2020

An eerie, weirdly moving film about loneliness and the persistence of history.

| Oct 8, 2020

Boris Karloff's disguise of living death is astounding. In the hands of a lesser artist the representation would be grotesque; Karloff's mummy is sinister and uncomfortably lifelike. The story is equally remarkable.

| Oct 8, 2020

Prepare to thrill and shiver when Boris Karloff, as an Egyptian mummy brought to life, stalks through reels of gruesome horror.

| Oct 8, 2020

This picture has been produced very artistically, but the reception the picture-goers will give it will depend entirely on whether they like horror pictures or not.

| Oct 8, 2020

If Karloff is the perfect actor for the gaunt, lined, calmly unsettling mummy, Zita Johann is a sensational match as Helen.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 30, 2020

"The Mummy" implies a magnificent effort of documentation, preparation, realization. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 28, 2020

Karloff delivers perhaps his finest acting performance in The Mummy, creating a sympathetic and distinctively human character...

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 8, 2017