The New Mummy Movie Course Corrects From Many of the Genre’s Orientalist Tropes, But There’s Still Work to Be Done

Lee Cronin’s horror film nails the casting in a way previous Mummy movies have not, even if more work is needed to do justice to the culture that it borrows from. Since 1932’s The Mummy , there have been at least 15 films grappling with an Ancient Egyptian corpse wreaking havoc. Boris Karloff’s original iteration remains the most iconic image, but Hammer Films’ The Mummy series (1959-1971) and the blockbuster franchise led by Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz …