The Top Ten Mummy Movies
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The Top Ten Mummy Movies

Brew up a pot of Tanis tea and rank the all-time greatest movies about mummies.

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1 The Mummy
Ultimate dead man walking Boris Karloff stars as a mummy intent on resurrecting a woman he lost 4,000 years ago. 271 467
2 The Mummy
Christopher Lee, as fast-moving mummy Kharis, and Peter Cushing, as archeologist John Banning, square off in this Hammer production. 185 379
3 The Mummy
Steven Sommers makes mummies cool again, with the help of Arnold Vosloo as Imhotep and Brendan Fraser as a heedless adventurer. 177 487
4 The Monster Squad
The guy under the bandages shares the screen with Dracula, some witchy brides, the Gill-man, Frankenstein's monster, and a werewolf. 0 318
5 Bubba Ho-Tep
Finally, a movie that pits a mummy against plausible victims: the residents of a Texas old-age home. -58 326
6 The Awakening
The body of a British Egyptologist's daughter is overtaken by the ghost of long-dead Queen Kara. -96 266
7 Blood From the Mummy's Tomb
In this goofy adaptation of a Bram Stocker novel, starlet Valerie Leon, as Queen Tera, wears her clothes lightly. -127 251
8 The Cat Creature
This overlooked TV movie has a latter-day mummy reincarnated in modern-day L.A. -- and turned into a killer feline. -139 245
9 The Eternal
Celtic bog mummy Niamh takes up residence in the body of a nervous recovering alcoholic. -153 233
10 Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy
One heck of a Mexican-monster-wrestler movie, featuring chiseled luchadoras and a mummy turned bat. -167 255