Blood From the Mummy's Tomb

What a Beautiful Mummy!
Anchor Bay has just released Hammer's Technicolor "Blood from the Mummy's Tomb" on DVD. The disc is 1:78:1 aspect ratio anamorphic. It stars curvaceous Valerie Leon, Andrew Kier, and George Coulouris. Based on Bram Stoker's "Jewel of the Seven Stars", Hammer's "Blood from the Mummy's Tomb" has divided horror fans over the years, many finding it confusing and dull. A group of Egyptologists discover the tomb of an evil queen. A girl is born to the wife of the expedition's leader at the exact moment of the discovery. It becomes evident that she has inherited the beauty and soul of the mummy. This strikes terror into all the archaelogists, as one by one they are gruesomely murdered. Two tragic deaths occurred during filming of "Blood". First, Peter Cushing, originally cast as Professor Fuchs, bowed out after one day's work due to his wife's failing health. Sadly, she died shortly thereafter. Secondly, 47 year-old director Seth Holt died of a heart...

The masters of Hammer's Vault of Horror are at it again...
Throughout the years Hammer Films meant quality horror pictures.

Spanning more than a decade these tiny jewels had true gothic flair.

Made on very tight budgets and at lightning speeds they swiftly outran equivalent products from Hollywood.

Who has forgotten Christopher Lee's Dracula or Peter Cushing's Baron Frankenstein?

The glory came to Hammer when in the late fifties, they produced the remakes of "The Mummy", "Frankenstein" (as "Curse of Frankenstein") and "Dracula" (as "Horror of Dracula").

In the years that followed a number of sequels of these remakes followed, starting with the Frankenstein series and followed by the Dracula series. They all were more or less good or successful but gained a horde of loyal fans and this fact alone made the fortune of Hammer Films.

The Mummy instead, a bit like the title role, limped slowly behind. The first one was a lavish remake of Boris Karloff's version. The ones which followed...

Hammer ups the ante in delivering the chills
This classic Hammer horror, based on Bram Stoker's novel "Jewel Of Seven Stars" is perhaps most famous for the deaths of director Seth Holt and the wife of Peter Cushing, the movie's original lead- which inevitably led to reports of a curse on the production. Strangely this is R18 in NZ/Australia despite being PG in the US. BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY'S TOMB is pretty gory for its time, maybe Hammer studios felt Herschell Gordon Lewis had been stealing some of their thunder so they countered this with classier, big budget bloodletting.
The plot revolves around archeologist Dr. Fuchs (Andrew Keir) who steals a ring of the Seven Stars from an Egyptian tomb. The only problem is it belonged to a Queen, and whoever wears the ring can bring death upon unsuspecting persons by gorily slashing their throats. Fuchs gives the ring to his sexy daughter Margaret (Valerie Leon) as a gift. Unfortunately, the ring causes her to have nightmares; one of which features Queen Tera's severed hand being...

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