![You'd be pissed, too, if you brain had been picked out with a wire hook shoved up your nostril.](http://armagideon-time.com/img/221029/1030.jpg)
Though the role was silent and didn’t offer much in the way of facial expression, Christopher Lee’s turn as the bandage-clad revenant in Hammer’s The Mummy is an all-time favorite of mine. Lee’s lean but towering frame combined with skilled physical acting to perfectly portray the shambling menace of an undead powerhouse.
![Five millennia old, and feeling every century of it today.](http://armagideon-time.com/img/221029/1030a.jpg)
And those eyes! Dear lord, those eyes — capable of expressing the depths of rage, sorrow, and pain despite an otherwise silent and still visage. I can see why Lee wanted to get away from this type of plodding monster role, but I’m glad he took this one on.
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