Since we’re in the month of Halloween, I thought it was time
to return to the Universal Monsters once again. This time, it’s the Monster
with a preference for limping: the Mummy. By the way, I’m going old-school, so
there will be no mention of the 2017 trainwreck with Tom Cruise. I still
haven’t seen the movie yet but if I get that bored, it might be a watch. Unlike
movies such as Dracula and Frankenstein, The Mummy was a bit of an original
idea. It was influenced by the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb
being found in Egypt. The rumors about curses befalling those who opened those
tombs also played into crafting the movie.
I saw The Mummy long ago when it was available at Movie
Gallery. As for the other movies, I actually didn’t see those until somewhat
recently. When my sister got me and my dad the whole Universal Monster
Collection, I pretty much went through the Mummy movies. They were pretty short
movies, so it was pretty easy to do. I might have seen one of them as part of a
marathon beforehand, but I’m not sure. I did know about them through those Crestwood books
I used to pick up at the library. I re-watched them all for this post. There
was another movie along with that collection that has Abbott and Costello in
it, but I’ll skip it for today.
