American Cinematographer - June 2001 - 66

The Mummy Returns lures veteran cameraman Adrian Biddle,
BSC back to the desert to revisit a supernatural enemy.
by Kevin H. Martin
Unit

photography by Keith Hamshere

reign of horror,
Universal Pictures' first

foray
by shooting

After helping inaugurate
into horror films

1931's Dracula for director

Tod

Browning, cinematogra¬
pher Karl Freund, ASC stepped away
from

the

camera

to

helm

The

Mummy, directing Boris Karloff as
Imhotep, the film's title character.
Charles Stumar, ASC was director of

photography for the studio's maiden
mummy effort, whose popularity led
to several sequels during Universal's
64 June 2001

a period
into the mid-1940s.

stretching

After lying

sionally cloddish - action hero who
seemed conjured from equal parts
Indiana Jones and Ash, the tragi¬

mostly dormant for
the mummy film
subgenre received a shot of adrena¬

Dead films.

line in 1999 with Universal's release

dose of state-of-the-art visual effects

of writer/director

(provided by Industrial Light &
Magic, with assists from Cinesite and
Pacific Title), The Mummy was a
worldwide success, mandating, like
its predecessor of so many years
back, a sequel.

half

The

a

century,

Stephen Sommers'

Mummy. While retaining the

spooky goings-on that typified the
studio's earlier mummy films, this
updating introduced audiences to
Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser), a

rugged and dashing - though occa¬

comic survivor of Sam Raimi's Evil

Set

a

Coupled with

a

healthy

decade after the conclu-

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ocurftesy

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