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'Mummy' Curse? 10 Bad Movies Featuring Classic Movie Monster Characters

Universal‘s classic movie monsters dating back to the 1920s and ’30s have stood the test of time, but resurrecting them in recent years has been tricky — as the studio was reminded again this past weekend with the critical and U.S. box office disappointment of The Mummy starring Tom Cruise. Here are 10 previous attempts to put a new spin on classic villains from the studio’s golden age of horror — Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, the Invisible Man — cursed to dwell in the shadows of Hollywood memory. (For a better binge, see our picks of six movies derived from The Mummy that got it right.)