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One of the most iconic Hollywood monster movies is 1931's "Frankenstein", the story of a mad scientist creating a living monster from the body parts of corpses his assistant steals.

When Universal announced it was working on The Mummy, a re-make of the classic film featuring none other than Encino Man's Brendan Fraser, a little skepticism was understandable.

Though the movie is called "Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor," a clay statue is not a mummy.

Things have come a long way since Boris Karloff terrified audiences in 1932's, 'The Mummy.' Although most of us think of that black and white horror classic as the first tale about an Egyptian sarcophagus ...

It's an act of movie masochism: going to the third film in a series when the first two weren't that good to begin with.

Riding on its past blockbuster success and Brendan Fraser's comedy/adventure star power, the latest in the trilogy, The Mummy: Tomb of the Emperor, should have stayed entombed.

In that grossly-ignored year, 1999, when everyone was talking about Y2K from February itself, amidst the cyber punk revolution that was "The Matrix", there was another film which went practically as far back in ...

From a shuffling, grunting figure that a child could realistically escape to a powerful, supernatural force that blows through dark passages unseen - and is bent on conquering the world - the Hollywood mummy ...

It's hard to say which summer movie suffers the most from the presence of the other: Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull or The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor .

It's been nearly a decade since Universal Pictures and writer/director Stephen Sommers nominally revived the studio's ancient Mummy character.

Like Satchel Paige, Universal Studios seemed keenly aware of the dangers of looking back.

Actors who play iconic roles, especially roles with a fantastical bent, sometimes live to regret cashing the cheque.

SUMMER IS ALWAYS a good time for classic movies on DVD, as most of those old films are being remade as summer blockbusters.

"Not your daddy's 'Mummy' " is one way the "Mummy" films starring Brendan Fraser could be described.

SUMMER IS ALWAYS a good time for classic movies on DVD, as most of those old films are being remade as summer blockbusters.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment / 1999 / 125 Minutes / PG-13 Street Date: July 8, 2008 On November 4, 1922, an expedition sponsored by Lord Carnarvon and led by Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamen's tomb.

DVD Talk Collector Series He was laughing when your father found him. He died laughing .

After flirting with the now-defunct HD-DVD format, Universal Home Video is leaping back aboard the Blu-ray express in a big way.

A Bloody Good Time 07.17.08: The Terrifying Bela Lugosi Posted by Joseph Lee on 07.17.2008 Universal treated him poorly, but he got the last laugh.

Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 07/15/2008 - 19:33. "THE MUMMY: SPECIAL EDITION." This DVD edition of the first "Mummy," one of the classic Universal horror pictures of the 1930s, is timed to coincide with the Aug.