From Boris Karloff to Sofia Boutella, this new video takes us through 85 years of the evolution of the Mummy on screen!
Witness the birth of the Universal monster in the 1932 The Mummy as we lead up to this summer’s reboot starring Tom Cruise. There’s all sorts of classic Mummy’s, including Christopher Lee, Lon Chaney Jr., Arnold Vosloo (and even Jet Li?!), in the handful of films released over the years.
Interestingly, the original film had no official sequels, but rather was semi-remade in The Mummy’s Hand (1940); and its sequels: The Mummy’s Tomb (1942), The Mummy’s Ghost (1944), and The Mummy’s Curse (1944). These were later followed up in the spoof Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955).
In the late 1950s, British Hammer Film Productions took up the Mummy theme, beginning with The Mummy (1959), which, rather than being a remake of the 1932 Karloff film, is based on Universal’s The Mummy’s Hand (1940) and The Mummy’s Tomb (1942). Hammer’s follow-ups — The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (1964), The Mummy’s Shroud (1966) and Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971) — are unrelated to the first film or even to each other. (Wiki)
Of course, we all remember when Brendan Fraser went up against the Mummy three times…