One of the most fetching of director Terence Fisher's early Hammer movies, the third in the trilogy which comprises The Curse of Frankenstein and Horror of Dracula. Its qualities are almost entirely abstract and visual, with colour essential to its muted, subtle imagery. Christopher Lee looks tremendous in the title role, smashing his way through doorways and erupting from green, dream-like quagmires in really awe-isnpiring fashion. Yvonne Furneaux plays one of Fisher's most crucial heroines, Isobel Banning, who has let her hair down (literally) and become sensual in order to free her husband (Peter Cushing) from the curse he invokes by opening an Egyptian tomb.
