The Mummy

Three days before its new embalming unspools at multiplexes, Universal reissues the original horror classic The Mummy, which, 67 years later, is more creepy in its gothic premise than in its now-cliched particulars. Karloff — somehow more humane here than in Frankenstein — is a high priest buried alive in ancient Egypt and revived 3,700 years later with a desire for his lost love and a bad need of moisturizer. B+