But it was what happened in the aftermath of the discovery that turned the nineteenth-century image of the mummy into a twentieth-century monster. The unveiling of Tut's tomb created a worldwide frenzy: Mummy lust was at its peak. With plenty of monsters from folklore at Universal's disposal, it selected the mummy due to the popular interest in Ancient Egypt stemming from the 1922 finding of King Tutankhamun's tomb.В Describing the discovery, David Robson wrote the following in his book, ' The Mummy':В 'This magical moment, earned after years of fruitless searching, marked the beginning of Carter's discovery, the contents of which would takes years to catalog. In the Rachel Weisz movie, her character reads a. Interestingly, part of the film's importance stems from the factors that inspired its creation.ДЇor one, Universal had an incredible year in 1931 with the success of ' Dracula'В and ' Frankenstein.'В Both films were financial and critical successes, and Universal realized that audiences were hungry for monster movies that had strong Gothic horror vibes. Still, while the two films have totally different characters and settings, both movies seem to boast the same trope of modernity awakening a mummy.

The year 2022 marks the 90thВ anniversary of the 1932В Universal Studios classic 'The Mummy.' Though not the first film to feature a mummy - that would be 1899's 'Robbing Cleopatra's Tomb' - 'The Mummy' would become the most influential of the earliest mummy films.

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