...the film, that is. I've never watched such a repetitive piece of trash. First of all, we get an excruciatingly long chase scene in which the hypnotized servant tries to capture the girl. He eventually gets her and takes her back to the castle, where the Mummy strips her (in the "nude" version which you can now find in pristine condition on YouTube) and rapes her. He sucks the blood from her neck, killing her. Then we find another girl and do it all again. It's boring already the second time, let alone the third and fourth. Then the film ends, with no conclusion and no explanation of anything.
It boggles my mind that there was ever a time when rape was considered as legitimate a form of cinematic entertainment as regular sex. But it's obvious here that this, rather than being a horror film, is actually intended to be an erotic one - just that all the sex is non-consensual, either with violence or through the women being mesmerized into accepting and even enjoying it. The only good thing I could point to in this opus is that the women are attractive with nice bodies. But considering the circumstances under which we see them, even that joy is muted. An extremely rare example of a film which I actually regret watching.
It boggles my mind that there was ever a time when rape was considered as legitimate a form of cinematic entertainment as regular sex. But it's obvious here that this, rather than being a horror film, is actually intended to be an erotic one - just that all the sex is non-consensual, either with violence or through the women being mesmerized into accepting and even enjoying it. The only good thing I could point to in this opus is that the women are attractive with nice bodies. But considering the circumstances under which we see them, even that joy is muted. An extremely rare example of a film which I actually regret watching.