The Mummy: From Carter & Carnarvon to Tom Cruise

Join History of Horror as we explore the mummy as a movie monster. In the years following Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon's discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, the mummy genre has been a staple of horror cinema, but the 2017 Tom Cruise-remake didn't have much of a cultural impact. Was it because it was a bad film, or was there some other, more complex reason for its failure?

Major spoilers for: The Mummy (1932), The Mummy (2017), The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Minor spoilers for: The Awakening, The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, Eyes of the Mummy, Get Out, The Mummy (1959), The Mummy (1999), The Mummy Returns, The Mummy's Curse, The Mummy's Shroud, The Scorpion King

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