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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor: After their son Alex discovers the Dragon Emperor's tomb, his parents, Rick (Brendan Fraser) and Evelyn (Maria Bello), are tasked with taking a relic called the "Eye of Shangri-La" to China. A third film seven years too late. Worst Mummy until 2017's Mummy.

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Van Helsing (2004): Monster hunter Gabriel Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) is sent to Transylvania by the Vatican to destroy Count Dracula. He teams up with a gypsy princess, Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale), to stop Dracula, who is using Dr. Frankenstein's research and a werewolf for his evil schemes.

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Flare Spark @therealsparky.bsky.social · 18h

The Scorpion King: In this spin-off to the Mummy franchise, Mathayus (Dwayne Johnson), a desert warrior rises up against the evil army that is destroying his homeland that would become Egypt. He captures the enemy's key sorceress, takes her deep into the desert and prepares for a final showdown.

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The Mummy Returns (2001): Rick and Evelyn O'Connell's eight-year-old son, Alex, finds the Bracelet of Anubis, which awakens the mummified High Priest Imhotep and, in turn, the legendary Scorpion King (The Rock). A cult resurrects Imhotep so he can use the bracelet to take over the world.

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Flare Spark @therealsparky.bsky.social · 18h

The Mummy (1999): This remake of the 1932 Universal classic- adventurer Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser), librarian Evelyn Carnahan (Rachel Weisz), and her brother Jonathan (John Hannah) accidentally awaken the ancient mummified high priest Imhotep during an archaeological dig in 1920s Egypt.

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Dracula: Dead and Loving It: Mel Brooks' take on the Count (Leslie Nielsen) relocating from his Transylvanian castle to Victorian London with his slavish assistant, Renfield (Peter MacNicol), in search of new blood. He finds it in a pair of beautiful young women. Before long, Drac meets his match.

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Flare Spark @therealsparky.bsky.social · 2d

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: Directed by Kenneth Branagh, when the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Branagh) rejects the artificial man (Robert De Niro) that he has created and tries to live a normal life with his fiancé (Helena Bonham Carter), the creature enacts revenge.

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Bram Stoker's Dracula: Francis Ford Coppola's take on the tale. Count Dracula (Gary Oldman) comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's (Keanu Reeves) fiancée Mina Murray (Winona Ryder) and wreak havoc in the foreign land with Professor Van Helsing (Anthony Hopkins) on this tail.

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Dracula (1979); Count Dracula (Frank Langella) travels from Transylvania to England to find a new bride. He arrives in Whitby and charms a young woman, but first kills her friend Mina. Mina's father, Professor Abraham Van Helsing (Laurence Olivier), arrives and recognizes Dracula as a vampire.

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Young Frankenstein: Mel Brooks' comedic take on Frankenstein follows Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder), a respected neurosurgeon who inherits his great-grandfather's castle in Transylvania and discovers the secret to reanimating a dead body with the help of a hunchback and beautiful assistant

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The Creature Walks Among Us: The third and final film in the Creature series, the Gill Man is captured and turned into an air-breather by a rich mad scientist. This makes the Creature very unhappy, and he escapes, killing people and setting fires in the process. Clint Eastwood does not appear sorry.

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Revenge of the Creature: scientists capture the Creature from the Black Lagoon and bring him to a Florida aquarium to be studied and exhibited. He escapes, drawn to a female scientist, abducts her, and flees to the open ocean. First movie with Clint Eastwood. Referenced in Back to the Future Part 3.

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Creature from the Black Lagoon: A scientific expedition in the Amazon discovers a prehistoric amphibious creature, the "Gill Man" in the legendary Black Lagoon. The team tries to capture it, but the creature escapes and becomes enraged. It takes a liking to the female lead, Kay, and kidnaps her.

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Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy: The comedy duo Abbott and Costello, are stranded in Cairo, Egypt, get caught up in a conspiracy involving a sacred mummy, a mysterious medallion, a treasure hunt, and a deadly cult.

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Abbott & Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Abbott and Costello are two police officers studying in London who get bailed out of jail by Dr. Jekyll (Boris Karloff). They become entangled in his experiments when he tries to separate his evil side, Mr. Hyde, from his good side through a serum.

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Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man: Two bumbling private detectives Abbott and Costello help a man wrongly accused of murder who has become invisible to clear his name. To do this, they must outsmart a greedy agent who is also trying to capture the invisible man for his own gain.

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Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein: Funnymen Abbott and Costello work with a mad scientist and Dracula to transfer the monster's brain into Costello's body to make him smarter, while Dracula wants to use the monster to get revenge on the world. They realize in horror that the monster(s) are real.

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RIP Diane Keaton 1946-2025

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Flare Spark @therealsparky.bsky.social · 5d

This is the last of the traditional Universal monster horror movies before the studio made parody films with Abbott and Costello.

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She-Wolf of London (1946): In Victorian England, A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park. The police believe that the woman is a killer, and perhaps she is a (she) werewolf.

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HoD(1945) Count Dracula and the Wolf Man seek a cure from a doctor for their respective curses. After the doctor's initial attempts fail, Dracula turns him into a vampire using a reverse blood transfusion, transforming the benevolent doctor into a madman intent on reviving the Frankenstein Monster.

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The Mummy's Curse (1944): The mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr) from ancient Egypt is tormented by his forbidden love for princess Ananka. The trouble begins when mummy Kharis is recovered and transported to Cajun country for study by a group of archaeologists.

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House of Frankenstein (1944): After escaping from prison, the mad Dr. Gustav Niemann (Boris Karloff) and his loyal hunchbacked assistant, Daniel, revive not only Count Dracula, but the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's Monster as well, all in order to exact revenge upon Niemann's many enemies.

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The Mummy's Ghost (1944): The Egyptian high priest Youesef Bey (Lon Chaney Jr.) is sent to America to retrieve the mummies of Kharis the Mummy and Princess Ananka but discovers Ananka's spirit has reincarnated into the young Egyptian woman Amina.

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The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944): Fugitive Robert Griffin (Jon Hall) is helped by scientist Dr. Drury (John Carradine) to become invisible, a power Griffin uses for personal revenge against his cheating business partners who double-crossed him on an expedition and left him for dead.

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