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The Mummy

Release Date 1932

Rating : 7 Production Companies: Universal Pictures Director: Karl Freund Stars: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners

Summary: An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.

The Mummy

Release Date 2017

Rating : 5.4 Production Companies: Dentsu, Perfect World Pictures (Beijing) Director: Jo Beckett, Alex Kurtzman Stars: Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella

Summary: Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.

The Mummy

Release Date 1959

Rating : 6.7 Production Companies: Hammer Film Productions Director: Terence Fisher Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux

Summary: One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries ago, has been brought to life by the power of the ancient gods and his sole purpose is to destroy those responsible for the desecration of the sacred tomb. But Isobel, wife of one of the explorers, resembles the beautiful princess, forcing the speechless and tormented monster to defy commands and abduct Isobel to an unknown fate.

The Mummy

Release Date 1999

Rating : 7.1 Production Companies: Universal Pictures, Alphaville Films Director: Stephen Sommers, Jim Threapleton, Greg Michael Stars: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah

Summary: Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It has been over three thousand years since former High Priest Imhotep suffered a fate worse than death as a punishment for a forbidden love—along with a curse that guarantees eternal doom upon the world if he is ever awoken.

The Mummy Returns

Release Date 2001

Rating : 6.4 Production Companies: Universal Pictures, Alphaville Films Director: Stephen Sommers, Adil Abdelwahab, Greg Michael Stars: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah

Summary: Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King’s might: the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and isn’t above kidnapping its new bearer, Alex, to gain control of Anubis’s otherworldly army.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Release Date 2008

Rating : 5.2 Production Companies: Universal Pictures, China Film Co-Production Corporation Director: Rob Cohen, Lorette Leblanc Stars: Brendan Fraser, Maria Bello, John Hannah

Summary: Archaeologist Rick O'Connell travels to China, pitting him against an emperor from the 2,000-year-old Han dynasty who's returned from the dead to pursue a quest for world domination. This time, O'Connell enlists the help of his wife and son to quash the so-called 'Dragon Emperor' and his abuse of supernatural power.

The Mummy's Tomb

Release Date 1942

Rating : 5.5 Production Companies: Universal Pictures Director: Charles S. Gould, Harold Young Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Dick Foran, John Hubbard

Summary: A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.

The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power

Release Date 2015

Rating : 4.1 Production Companies: Universal Pictures, Universal 1440 Entertainment Director: Cornelia Stefan, Alina Apostu, Mike Elliott Stars: Victor Webster, Ellen Hollman, Barry Bostwick

Summary: When he is betrayed by a trusted friend, Mathayus must marshal all his strength and cunning to outwit a formidable opponent who will stop at nothing to unlock a supreme ancient power.