![]() ![]() Universal solved the Karloff conundrum by featuring an all new mummy replacing Karloff’s classic Imhotep. ![]() The franchise had lost original director Karl Freund and Boris Karloff was no longer beneath the bandages. The first sequel to the original Universal Studios The Mummy, The Mummy’s Hand had a huge legacy to live up to. Watch Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy on Amazon 11. He may have played second fiddle to two slapstick legends, but Khalis was still a mummy to be reckoned with. The film does not have the same resonance as when the boys met Frankenstein in ’48, but Parker plays a really cool looking mummy with tremendous screen presence and the film returned the monster to a sort of glory after the Universal horror cycle had ended in the late ’40s. Read more: Why Ed Wood Isn’t the Worst Director in Movie History This film would be way down on an Abbott and Costello list, but it hits all the right notes to make it a standout mummy film. From the creepy tombs, to the vengeful spirit of the mummy, this movie did try its level best to fit the mold of a classic Mummy yarn if not a classic comedy. Bud and Lou are not at the top of their game in this film, referring to each other by their real names rather than their character names and kind of just going through the motions. Hilarity ensues as Parker plays it straight and Bud and Lou run through some of their classic routines. The story centered on a cursed medallion that, of course, Lou mistakes for a hamburger and swallows at one point. ![]() So, respect the bandages and join us as we part the mists of the past and seek out those terrifying creatures of rot and ruin and count down the greatest Mummy adventures of them all. These are the films that prove that mummies can be just as colon-clenching as any monster. In fact, when Universal Studios tried (and failed…miserably) to relaunch its pantheon of monsters into a Marvel-inspired shared universe, they looked to The Mummy to kick it all off.Īllow us to celebrate the Mummy with the 13 greatest Mummy films ever produced. But mummies have a historical edge, a faded part of lost empires, angry at the modern world, desperately longing for the days of their past glories and lost loves.ĭespite years of monstrous marginalization, mummies can be and in many cases have been really freakin’ scary and are worthy of recognition in horrordom. Lumbering around, covered in bandages, they don’t have the literary cache of Frankenstein’s Monster or the sexual appeal of Dracula. While he supports and admires the women who came forward during the Time’s Up movement, Fraser admitted he lacked the courage to do so himself.Throughout horror movie history, mummies have seemed like the forgotten classic monster. And he starts moving it around” (an incident that Berk claims is a “complete fabrication”).įraser said the incident made him feel “ill… like a little kid… like there was a ball in my throat” and that he became “depressed” and “reclusive” afterwards. Fraser describes: “His left hand reaches around, grabs my ass cheek, and one of his fingers touches me in the taint. The actor also spoke about an incident in that occurred in 2003 at a luncheon held by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in the Beverly Hills Hotel involving Philip Berk, a former president of the HFPA. I was going through things that mould and shape you in ways that you're not ready for until you go through them.” I mean, they were born, but they're growing up. He explains that across a ten year period: “I changed houses I went through a divorce. In 2016, his mother passed away, while a number of other occurrences uprooted his life. The actor estimated that he was in and out of hospitals for almost seven years. He underwent numerous surgeries including a laminectomy, a lumbar that didn’t take and had to be done again, a partial knee replacement, and even repairs on his vocal cords. It turns out, the reasons are complicated and manifold.įirstly, the actor was plagued by injuries from doing so much stunt work. ![]() Mind you, his next role, in TV series Trust, based on the same true life kidnapping of John Paul Getty II that inspired Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World, could just be his next big hit.įraser discussed the show, which co-stars Hillary Swank and Donald Sutherland, in a new interview with GQ, during which he also went into the reasons for his fading career during the 2000s. While he continues to work, the actor is not the high profile star he once was. Star of The Mummy, George of the Jungle and Bedazzled Brendan Fraser was frequently a leading man on the big screen between the 90s and 00s. ![]()
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