Compared to fellow classic monsters like vampires and werewolves, mummies don’t have a huge pop-culture presence. The undead creatures are closely associated with Egyptian history and the burial practices of ancient pharaohs, which can make them less flexible for storytelling purposes.

In the pantheon of great movie monsters, the mummy has a strange history. There aren’t nearly as many mummy movies as there are werewolf movies, zombie movies, or Frankenstein monster movies, and yet mummy movies predate all those other genres, going back at least as far as Georges Méliès’ “Robbing Cleopatra’s Tomb,” way back in 1899.

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The Universal Monsters movies are the films that helped build the framework of horror, and despite being decades old, they still hold up today. The movies tap into primal fears and themes of the unknown, the dangers of unchecked power, and the dark side of ...

There comes a point when watching all the best horror movies where I feel compelled to go back to a simpler time. I want to go back to the days when someone went to a ...

The Beale Street Monster Club celebrates classic Hollywood horror movies and monsters. The club holds free monthly screenings and discussions at the historic A. Schwab store on Beale Street. Co-founder Michael J. Cox aims to preserve the history and ...