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Why The Boris Karloff Mummy Is Still the Most Haunting

Summary by Den of Geek
There is no music on a moonless night during a crucial scene in The Mummy of 1932. There is almost no music in the movie at all beyond a derivative, if ever effective, use of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake in the opening credits. But on this bleak evening in the old Egyptian Museum of Cairo, there is the ceaseless chant of Boris Karloff’s pained diction. In the shadows of gloom, he repeats breathlessly, hopefully, “Anck-es-en-Amon.” It’s a spell, a lur…
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Den of Geek broke the news in on Monday, April 13, 2026.
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