Ihad just turned 10 when The Mummy came out in May of 1999, and I remember cowering, wide-eyed, behind my giant bag of popcorn topped with Sno-Caps as man-eating CGI scarabs terrorized the characters on screen. I couldn’t sleep that night when we returned home from the movie theater, as visions of decrepit mummies and deadly, ancient bugs and men shriveling up as they got the life sucked out of them flashed in my little girl brain. I was so scared! I was hooked .

The Mummy has long been one of my favorite films, partly due to my undying ’90s nostalgia but also because it’s just a great time. It’s a movie that feels like a movie, as Harry Styles might put it . And what’s not to love? The film pays tribute to the classic adventure films of years-gone-by without feeling like an un

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