In the pantheon of great movie monsters, the mummy has a strange history. There aren’t nearly as many mummy movies as there are werewolf movies, zombie movies, or Frankenstein monster movies, and yet ...
The Mummy has been around since the Universal Monsters, and with a new Lee Cronin movie, here is a look at all the franchise's movies, ranked.
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Mummy A mummified man likely to be Ramesses I A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose soft tissues and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay further if kept in cool and dry conditions.
The Mummy: Directed by Stephen Sommers. With Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo. At an archaeological dig in the ancient city of Hamunaptra, an American serving in the French Foreign Legion accidentally awakens a mummy who begins to wreak havoc as he searches for the reincarnation of his long-lost love.
Just to be clear, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is not part of the traditional Universal Monsters line-up. It has nothing to do with the lumbering character from the classic films from the 1930s and ’40s, nor the Hammer films of the 1960s, nor the widely beloved Brendan Fraser/Rachel Weisz adventure films of early 2000s, nor the ill-fated Tom Cruise vehicle of 2017. This is its own beast, telling ...