“Death is only the beginning…” The legends of the mummy have inspired more than a few stories in movies. Check out our list of mummy movies from the 1930s to the present day…

Following the box office successes of Dracula and Frankenstein, Universal commissioned a new monster movie inspired by the media sensation caused by the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 and the “Curse of the Pharaohs.” Since, unlike with Dracula and Frankenstein, there was no literary source material, there were a number of iterations before they got there.