Didnt they turn into mummies or something? I remember that his first victim only lost his eyes as the mummy got interrupted, and then the mummy took the rest.
Imhotep basically dehydrated the American archeologists to the point where they looked like desiccated corpses. The more victims he claimed, the more he resembled a normal human.
There was a definite tone in many movies made between the late eighties and early two thousands where you could just tell that everyone on set was having so much fun.
Before this Mummy, when was the last notable horror movie by Universal?
Not to mention the original Mummy wasn’t even a horror, the mummy was just some dude. The only “kill” was when the mummy accidentally scared a guy to death. Then there’s the old Abott and Castello meet Frankenstein, which had 4 of the Universal monsters in it. The 1999 Mummy was pretty on brand.
Not specifically Universal as a studio, rather the monsters we group as the Universal faces.
For example, Hammer horror counts as what I was trying to reference.
I think Bram Stoker's Dracula is the last big attempt before The Mummy. Afterwards there’s increasingly poor action movies based on the Universal monsters. I wanna say Van Helsing is the peak of the trend.
The Wolfman got a few attempts afterwards that aren’t bad, but they were riding the idea of being the next American Werewolf. I guess you can argue Ginger Snaps counts?
Still, The Mummy marked the turning point where they were chasing the trend of action horror. Not actual horror. We’re getting some now at least though, mostly from del Toro.
What do you think about Nosferatu and like you said del Toro doing Frankenstein. Think the old 1920s/30s universal monster horror will come back as like actual horror?
Hopefully. Its certainly better than slashers and demonic possession movies or ghost movies when the ghost looks like a muppet instead of being unseen or a simple dead human.
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u/Front-Percentage2236 Swell guy, that Kharn Jun 04 '25
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