Sunday, August 3, 2014

The Inner Skanktum



If this pharaoh should ever unwind
When he's bare, you'd revoltingly find
All the marks of decay
Carcass wasted away
Just a scary, old nude left behind.

David Cairns

Boris Karloff and make-up artist Jack Pierce bring life to The Mummy (Karl Freund; 1932). The mummy make-up took hours to apply and remove, and Karloff said that they forgot to give it a fly.

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