The Mummy is interesting because it’s consistently the outlier in these cycles - sometimes for good, sometimes for ill, sometimes just for strangeness. It arrived late to the party started by Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in the 1990s. It was the third of director Terence Fisher’s updates of classic movie monsters for Hammer Horror in the 1950s, behind The Curse of Frankenstein and Horror of Dracula. It followed Dracula and Frankenstein as the third of the major Universal Classic Monsters of the 1930s. The Mummy has been part of every major wave of Gothic monster movies. ![]() ![]() Halloween is fast approaching, so it seems like as good a time as any to talk about that most maligned of movie monsters: the Mummy.
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