Lonemagpie wrote:
Greg Cox wrote:
Lonemagpie wrote:
Actually that staple of Mummy movies is also a Bram Stoker creation - it originated from his Jewel Of The Seven Stars.
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Good point. I actually reprinted Jewel at Tor several years ago, with a gorgeous Boris Vallejo cover. Alas, nobody has yet to make a really good version of that book yet. (The Hammer version is better than the Charlton Heston version, but I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say that either of them is really a good movie!) |
The Hammer version did have the problem, IIRC, of the original director dropping dead half way through, and thoroughly buggering up the production... |
True and didn't Peter Cushing drop out at the last minute as well? After his wife died?
(For the uninitiated, we're talking about BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY'S TOMB, which was later remade as THE AWAKENING.)
Although, now that I think of it, sure, there's a reincarnation angle in
Jewel of Seven Stars, but it's not the long-lost-love-reborn angle that the later mummy movies (and Dracula adaptations) have milked.