you might probably guess which Mummy movie ISN’T on this list!
Throughout horror movie history, mummies have seemed like the forgotten classic monster.
Lumbering around, covered in bandages, they dont havethe literary cache of Frankensteins Monsterorthe sexual appeal of Dracula.
Allow us to celebrate the Mummy with the 13 greatest Mummy films ever produced.
These are the films that prove that mummies can be just as colon-clenching as any monster.
There is never anactualmummy in this film but thereisa dead Egyptian princess with a severed hand.
Tera possesses the daughter who seeks vengeance on the archeologist team.
The film was very low budget, but like most Hammer gems, has a lush and expensive feel.
The set pieces are extraordinary and Leon rules every frame she is in.
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12.
So they turned to the one classic Universal monster thatdidntappear in the first monster comedy, The Mummy.
Hilarity ensues as Parker plays it straight and Bud and Lou run through some of their classic routines.
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11.
The franchise had lost original director Karl Freund and Boris Karloff was no longer beneath the bandages.
Universal solved the Karloff conundrum by featuring an all new mummy replacing Karloffs classic Imhotep.
)and the Phantom.
It may not hold a candle (HA!)
to the original, butThe Mummys Handis a delightful little creep fest in its own right.
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10.
How the hell do you suplex a snake?
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8.
Well in this Spanish-German-Italian horror film (it even mashes up languages!)
The aliens want to discover why earthlings find these particular monsters so frightening.
When the secrets of the monsters are discovered, the aliens plan to clone the classic beasties.
Oh yeah, the aliens also ran a traveling circus because the early 70s.
A Golem I say!
So thank youMonster Squad, thank you from mummyophiles everywhere.
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6.
Despite his misgivings, Chaneys mummy is a sight to behold making this film a mummy staple.
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4.
Day-Lewis on board might have upped the Mummys monster cred, but it was not to be.
Universal then turned to Mick Garris andWes Craven.
Instead, we got Stephen Sommers Indiana Jones-esqueMummyfilm, and you know what?
It all worked out.
Man, I would have loved to see the Barker version though.
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3.
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2.
Elvis must defend his home and fellow elderly housemates from a soul-sucking mummy, whom Elvis dubs Bubba Ho-Tep.
It takes its cues from the mummy classics of yesterday but bends it into something wholly original.
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1.
No one rocked a fez like Karloff.
And he did it all for love.
He believed that the lovely Helen Grosvenor (Zita Johann) was the reincarnation of his lost love Ankh-es-en-amon.
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