The operating word for The Mummy, Universal's first in its multi-installment monster-movie franchise, seems to be "terrifying."
Plane crashing, swarmed by ravenous rats, falling down a deep hole, drowning, being chased by swimming zombies while drowning, being mummified and buried alive, stalked by big hairy spiders — it's all there and more.
The studio showed an extended trailer for its June 9 release at Cinemacon on Wednesday, with Tom Cruise introducing via pre-recorded video — and even his word-emphasis was on "terrifying." (To make sure we understood that scariness was the priority here, Uni showed a beautiful montage of its black-and-white monster classics — Frankenstein, Creature From the Black Lagoon, The Invisible Man and the original, The Mummy — and they are still hair-raising on a big screen.) Read more...
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