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Eerie and melancholy, that's the original Universal The Mummy for me - and why I really like it. It didn't appeal to me much when I was a kid -- he wasn't very threatening and I just didn't get the love angle. But that love angle is what makes this movie, I think, the most adult of all the classic horror movies.

Im-Ho-Tep has a very specific goal --

get the girl. But he's rather patient about it. After he's re-animated, he just kinda hangs out in Cairo for 10 years incognito as Ardath Bay. When the original expedition returns, the plot gets going. But even then, there's no plagues or CGI set-pieces. It's all rather still and dreamlike.

I get that the recent remake of The Mummy just wasn't going for that vibe -- it's an action film with a horror movie setting. But because of his relative lack of violence (couple of bodies here & there), the movie is able to focus on his loneliness and sense of loss to give a poignancy missing from other horror movies.

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