![]() How Does This Connect to the Brendan Fraser Mummy Movies? ![]() ![]() The eponymous Mummy is played by Sofia Boutella, while Annabelle Wallis plays archeologist Jenny Halsey. Nope, he’s Nick Morton, a morally ambiguous tomb raider who gets involved in the same kind of stunts as Cruise’s Mission: Impossible character while also having to fight off an ancient undead evil. Even though zombies have had the spotlight in recent years, mummies did the spooky, murdery shuffle first - and, traditionally, with an extra layer of clothing … well, bandages. Starting with 1932’s The Mummy, the idea of ancient Egyptian corpses that come back to something close to life as the result of a curse was a mainstay of early genre cinema, with no less than four sequels, two British remakes and a handful of parodies and pastiches in a brief period. Before zombies made it big, mummies were the walking dead of choice for cinema.
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