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Mummy Mania #6: Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)

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This is what rock bottom looks like.

Mummy Mania #5: The Mummy's Curse (1944)

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The original cycle of Mummy movies ends not with a roar, but with a whimper.

Mummy Mania #4: The Mummy's Ghost (1944)

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The cracks are starting to show.

Mummy Mania #3: The Mummy's Tomb (1942)

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The terror comes home.

Mummy Mania #1: The Mummy (1932)

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A new Mummy movie is looming from Universal with promises (threats?) that it's the first of a new shared universe (a "Dark Universe," if you will) that will revive all their classic monsters for modern popcorn munchers. Because the marketing machine is in full swing, all the previous Mummy movies have just been re-released, with some of them restored in HD for the first time.What better excuse to binge on classic horror? In this inaugural installment, we're looking at the film that started it all: 1932's The Mummy .