Horror Movies - The Early Mummy MoviesSome of the vintage horror movie posters from the mummy movies from the Universal horror genre.
Great horror graphics and mummy art on this poster. One of the rarest and most valuable movie posters of all time. Boris Karloff made this movie a year after he made Frankenstein. He never played the mummy character again.
Original title card. The film was originally titled Cagliostro. Karloff became such a big movie star after the success of Frankenstein that his name was above the title.
Great scene card. Some scenes in the movie, such as a re-incarnation scene, were actually deleted from the final print by the Production Code office which was just recently formed in 1930.
Universal Studios re-released the movie in 1951. The mummy image on this poster was taken from the above lobby card. 
Karloff is shown as the real life Im-ho-tep character.
The Mummy's Hand was the first mummy movie since the original but had a new cast of characters than the original film. While not a true sequel, the movie used flashbacks scene from the original. Great mummy movie with more comedic aspects. The tagline was The Tomb of A Thousand Terrors!.
Tom Tyler, who primarily played in B-western movies, plays Kharis the Mummy. Directed by Christy Cabanne who never made another Universal horror movie but did direct Scared To Death with Bela Lugosi seven years later. Although a great looking poster, the insert resembles the one sheet poster.
Lon Chaney Jr. plays the mummy for first time and also for the next two mummy movies. This is a sequel from the Mummy's Hand. Not regarded as one of the better films in this series.
Movie posters for both the 1942 original releaseand the 1948 re-release versions.
These are 2 different movie posters for the 1948 release by Realart Pictures. Realart Pictures was a movie releasing company that was started in 1948. It had purchased rights to the Universal sound movie library for 5 years in which many of the films were re-released.
The Mummys Ghost was the sequel to the Mummys Tomb. One of the best character actors ever, John Carradine, is the lead actor in this film. Although a sequel, the mummy was actually killed in the last movie and it's returned was never explained.
Original half sheet poster for the movie. Lon Chaney Jr. was the only actor to play all four of the classic Universal movie monsters (Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolf Man).
These were re-release posters.The horror graphics on these were basically the same as the original which was disappointing. Although Lon Chaney Jr. appeared in many monsters movies, he did play a dramatic role as Lennie in John Steinbeck's classic Of Mice And Men in 1939.
This was the 4th of the mummy movies in the last 4 years from the Universal horror franchise. It would be the last one until the next movie was made some 11 years later. The overall horror graphics of the Universal monster movie posters from the 1940's, were probably the best of all the film studios.
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