"Favourite Mummy Movie?" Topic

What is your favourite Mummy movie? Here's a starting list of notable entries in the genre, if your favourite is not on it, please nominate:

* The Mummy (1932, Universal)
* The Mummy's Hand (1940, Universal)
* The Mummy's Tomb (1942, Universal)
* The Mummy's Ghost (1944, Universal)
* The Mummy's Curse (1944, Universal)
* Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955, Universal)
* The Aztec Mummy (1957, La Momia Azteca)
* The Curse of the Aztec Mummy (1957, La Maldición de la Momia Azteca)
* Pharoah's Curse (1957)
* The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy (1958, La Momia Azteca contra el Robot Humano)
* The Mummy (1959, Hammer)
* The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964, Hammer)
* Orgy of the Dead (1965, Ed Wood)
* The Mummy's Shroud (1967, Hammer)
* Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971, Hammer)
* Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy (1998)
* The Mummy (1999, Universal franchise reboot)
* The Mummy Returns (2001, Universal franchise reboot)
* Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
* Mil Mascaras vs the Aztec Mummy (2007)
* The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008, Universal franchise reboot)
* The Mummy (2017, Universal franchise reboot rebooted)

Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)

It's the day after Labor Day, and the start of my annual Spooky Movie Fest. There's a number of good mummy movies out there. I'm partial to Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (based on Stoker's Jewel of the Seven Stars). And honourable mention to Abbot & Costello Meet the Mummy — the grand finale is great!

The Mummy (1932). Gorgeous, evocative photography and staging.

The Mummy, 1999 with Brendan Fraser

The 1999 Mummy for me. But I'm not really much of a horror fan, so from the standpoint of this poll, I'm probably admiring it for the wrong reasons.

Missing the We Want Our Mummy – 1939 (3 Stooges)

link – a few more on this list

I've seen the 1999 one and a old black-and-white one, possibly the 1932. I'm probably not the target audience for this poll.

The Mummy, 1999

The 1999 reboot is good if you like modern action-adventure movies, sort of like Jurassic Park but with a mummy. Universal had various starts to rebooting The Mummy in fits and starts for about a decade. George Romero was in on two the starts, pity he didn't get to complete one, that would have been a horror movie.

1999 Mummy.

The Mummy 1999. The soundtrack alone makes it great.

Mummy 1999. Great action.

1999 with Brenden for the win.

Bubba Ho-tep #1!

Mister Mummy imdb.com/title/tt17736704 (Hey, you didn't say what type of mummy, and this is about as bad a movie as the worst actual mummy movie ever … Day of the Mummy, maybe?)

Loft imdb.com/title/tt0443231

Back in the 90s one of the episodes of Amazing Stories TV series was called "The mummy's a daddy."
It is gut- bustingly funny.
Rarely laughed so hard in my life.

1999 Mummy. Good action adventure yarn and rachel weisz was looking good.

1932 followed closely by 1999

Bubba-Hotep is great fun. Elvis, JFK in the body of a black man, both hiding out in an old folk's home with a secret ancient threat… what's not to love?

The Mummy (1999) is also a fun movie, but it's "horror" only in the imagery— otherwise, it's an Indiana Jones flick with a re-skinned Indiana Jones… but still an entertaining watch.

The original 1932 The Mummy is a classic, and true horror, but it's also kind of slow.

The fascinating thing is that the film's premise of a mummy being a form of the undead (not really called such in the film) is the entire source of the idea; undead mummies are not an element in Egyptian folklore or mythology, from what I can tell. It just fits so well with the preservation efforts of the ancient Egyptians that it's easy to assume the idea is ancient, rather than Hollywood whole cloth!

I'm gonna have to read about the others; I think I've seen the Hammer one (and wasn't impressed).

None interest me

Korvesa +1 (Amazing Stories, "The Mummy Was a Daddy").

The original Mummy and then Buba Hotep.

The idea of undead mummies certainly wasn't new in 1932. It may have no basis in ancient Egyptian belief, but it's a bit of a theme in 19C literature. Gauthier's "The Mummy's Foot" from 1840 is the earliest example I can think of.

(It's a pretty good story, BTW, and long out of copyright so freely available online.)

Thanks for that tip, TLC! Definitely going to look for that work.

Korvessa +1
I had the same reaction you did!
By the way, that wasn't the 90's. "Mummy Daddy" was broadcast in 1985! I know, I know, time flies….

My second choice goes to Bubba Ho-Tep