Irish director Lee Cronin follows his Evil Dead reboot with what feels like another Evil Dead film but without a real sense of humour

Compared to fellow classic monsters like vampires and werewolves, mummies don’t have a huge pop-culture presence. The undead creatures are closely associated with Egyptian history and the burial practices of ancient pharaohs, which can make them less flexible for storytelling purposes.

The Universal Monsters movies are the films that helped build the framework of horror, and despite being decades old, they still hold up today. The movies tap into primal fears and themes of the unknown, the dangers of unchecked power, and the dark side of ...

The Abyss, Mimic, and The Faculty are all excellent monster movies that are sadly overlooked if not outright forgotten these days.

But owning the Universal Monsters comes with some pitfalls that the studio hasn’t been able to navigate. They’re not specific enough to prevent other studios from making very similar movies. They’re deeply familiar with a genre that trades on shock value.

Universal Pictures’ classic monster films are some of the most iconic in the genre, and they indisputably pioneered horror in Hollywood. In 1943, two iconic monsters clashed in an epic crossover movie that is streaming on Peacock starting September 1, 2025.