The Mummy

Director: Stephen Sommers

1999 / 124min / 35mm

The quintessence of the breezy late ’90s multiplex blockbuster, Universal’s rollicking remake of their 1932 classic turns a relatively quaint, atmosphere horror film into a booby trap-packed action bonanza, with then cutting-edge effects from Industrial Light & Magic used to create the title monster, the undead high priest Imhotep, who is inadvertently reawakened from thousands of years of slumber by American adventurer Brendan Fraser and Egyptologist Rachel Weisz, together making a most charming odd screen couple.