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Monday, March 1, 2021

Stay Home, Watch Horror: 5 Mummy Movies to Stream This Week

Of all the classic monsters, the mummy remains the most overlooked and forgotten. Compared to the brute strength of Frankenstein’s monster, the primal ferociousness of the werewolf, or even the commanding power of vampires, the mummy seems far less imposing. At least upon the creature’s first cinematic introduction, Universal’s 1932 feature The Mummy.

Wrapped in bandages and with the rigid, lumbering pace of a long-dead corpse, The Mummy’s eponymous monster and subsequent iterations represented a fragile foe easy to evade. Like many of its counterparts, the mummy tends to be a character steeped in tragedy. Its ancient leanings compound that. There’s a rich history to this movie monster that makes it fascinating despite a lack of scares. Of course, more modern versions play around with the concept of what a mummy could be, bringing the scares and even the laughs.

This week’s streaming picks spotlight one of the most underutilized cinematic monsters.

Here’s where you can watch them…


Waxwork – Prime Video, Tubi

Consider this fun monster mashup more of an introduction to the mummy, a dip your toes in the water sort. When a group of friends receives a private invitation to a new waxwork museum that’s just moved into the neighborhood, they discover that stepping beyond the exhibits’ ropes leads to worlds of horror. Anthony Hickox unveils the museum’s mysteries in an anthology-like format. One by one, the friends fall into deadly encounters with the foundational horror archetypes. That includes a trip to an Egyptian tomb, ending in a claustrophobic nightmare with a mummy. The mummy’s story here might be brief, but it serves as a potent reminder for the monster’s inclusion among the classics.


The Monster Squad – Prime Video

Like Waxwork, this gateway horror gem by Fred Dekker assembles the classic monsters and unleashes them upon a small town. It’s up to a young group of monster fanatics to stop them. The Mummy first spooks the youngest member of the Monster Squad but becomes the easiest to thwart among Dracula’s allies. Still, the movie treats the monster with reverence, and it’s always fun to see it appear in a setting far removed from ancient Egypt.


Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb – FlixFling

This slow-burn Hammer Horror presents an atypical mummy very loosely based on Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars. An archaeological expedition locates the unmarked tomb of an evil queen, Tera (Valerie Leon), and an obsessed professor brings her coffin back home to London. Soon after, the professor’s daughter begins to behave strangely; Queen Tera seeks to return by possessing the girl. While less bloody or intense than many of its Hammer counterparts, this feature boasts stunning production design and a brooding atmosphere. Considering just how troubled the production was, including the death of original director Seth Holt five weeks into the shoot, Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb is a surprisingly solid, if underseen, effort.


The Mummy (1999)– HBO Max

Stephen Sommers reinvigorated the mummy with this well-loved adventure-horror movie that launched a franchise. A swashbuckling American and a clumsy Egyptologist unwittingly awaken a powerful mummy who begins to wreak havoc as he searches for the reincarnation of his long-lost love. Sommers pays homage to Universal’s original while creating a brand-new type of mummy, a powerful spirit that regenerates and wields the Plagues of Egypt to his whim. It’s an epic tale of love and revenge, spanning multiple action-packed set pieces that hold up quite well.


Bubba Ho-Tep – Prime Video

Don Coscarelli takes a creative approach in addressing the sluggish nature of standard ancient mummies; he unleashes it upon a pool of potential victims too feeble to outrun it. Bruce Campbell stars as an aged man claiming to be the still-living Elvis Presley. When a reanimated mummy in cowboy gear starts feeding off the residents in Presley’s nursing home, he teams up with John F. “Jack” Kennedy, who uses a wheelchair, to stop it. Coscarelli injects plenty of laughs, but for Shady Rest Retirement Home residents, this mummy represents a massive threat. The filmmaker uses a silly concept to weave a poignant and thrilling tale, breathing new life into the undead archetype.



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