Compared to fellow classic monsters like vampires and werewolves, mummies don’t have a huge pop-culture presence. The undead creatures are closely associated with Egyptian history and the burial practices of ancient pharaohs, which can make them less flexible for storytelling purposes.
That doesn’t mean there haven’t been popular mummy movies over the years, from the early days of Hollywood through recent blockbusters. The latest attempt to make mummies happen comes this week with the theatrical release of “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy,” a missing-child horror movie with the director’s name in the title so that it can be differentiated from the well-known Universal franchise.
