Time is interminable, the loneliness is almost unbearable and the only thing that keeps me going is the knowledge that my dear Helen and I will be united again some day."īlood from the Mummy's Tomb enjoyed mostly positive reviews upon its release. He was left inconsolable, reportedly telling the BBC's The Radio Times, "Since Helen passed on I can't find anything the heart, quite simply, has gone out of everything. He was called away from the set on January 3 and by January 13, his wife, Helen Cushing, was dead.
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Star and Hammer Horror staple Peter Cushing, initially cast in the role of Professor Fuchs, withdrew from the film when his wife fell gravely ill. The bad luck extended to the film's cast as well. Holt was replaced by Michael Carreras for the final week of production. But Holt died before the production could be completed, with only one week left for filming he suffered a heart attack on February 14 at age 47, the result of alcoholism and poor health. The production was plagued by difficulties from the beginning, seemingly haunted by an Egyptian curse of its own.ĭirector Seth Holt, who began his career as an assistant editor at Ealing, and later directed the Hammer film Taste of Fear (1961, aka Scream of Fear) was selected by former film publicist and first-time producer Howard Brandy, to direct Blood from the Mummy's Tomb. She assembles a group of ancient tomb relics that will allow her to bring Tera's sleeping powers to life, destroying everything-and everyone-including her own fiancé Tod (Mark Edwards), in a mad power grab.īlood from the Mummy's Tomb was based on Dracula author Bram Stoker's 1903 novel Jewel of the Seven Stars, adapted again in 1980 as The Awakening starring Charlton Heston and directed by Mike Newell ( Dance with a Stranger, 1985, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, 2010). Fuchs gives his daughter Tera's ruby ring on her 20th birthday, Tera's yen for power comes alive in Margaret.Īided by a nefarious member of Professor Fuch's Egyptian team, Corbeck (James Villiers), Margaret begins a campaign to claim Tera's power for herself.
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In fact, Tera entered Margaret's body on the day of her birth, 20 years ago, the very day Dr.
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The daughter of a famous Egyptologist, Professor Fuchs (Andrew Keir), Margaret dreams nightly about an Egyptian queen whose hand is severed by her high priests in hopes of limiting her supernatural powers.
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Margaret (Valerie Leon) is the reincarnation of the ancient Egyptian priestess Queen Tera.
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"It is not so much a fiction movie as a stringing together of direful devices, but I can think of few more guiltily pleasant excuses for overstaying a lunch hour, avoiding duty, or merely escaping the sunshine on a summer afternoon," wrote reviewer Roger Greenspun, who was especially enamored with Leon's charms: "a 500 per cent knockout" he enthused. For The New York Times that was part of the fun. However, if you can forgive it its glaring faults and focus on the F/X department's field day, which ranges from morphing evil Egyptian priest types out of sand, to covering pointless extras in rivers of genuinely spine-tingling creepie-crawlies, theres a great evening's entertainment to be had.Lensed in garish Technicolor and obsessed with star Valerie Leon's admirably ample bosom and sultry looks, Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971) is pure Hammer horror: equal parts chills and thrills, unfolding in an often helter skelter manner. The script is as dumb as they come, relying on the inevitable square-jawed heroics and vaguely distasteful middle-eastern stereotypes for effect, John Hannah is trapped in a thanklessly one-dimensional role, while Rachel Weisz's virginal heroine really doesn't exist for any purposes other than sexual awakening and human sacrifice. Scorned by critics, but loved by audiences, Universal's remake of its own 1930s classic is actually a lot of fun, its blend of low-rent Indiana Jones-style antics, impressive special effects and inevitably chaste romance scoring high in the risible escapist nonsense department.īrendan Fraser is the likeable chiselled hero, a Foreign Legion deserter who has to swash and buckle his way through 1920s Egypt when a misguided treasure hunt actually re-awakens an ancient, heavily bandaged and rather unpleasant priest (hey, they actually mummified these people for a reason, you know).