Where To Watch All of The Mummy Movies in Order

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For almost a century, The Mummy has delighted audiences on the big screen. Audiences have long been drawn to creatures of the undead, such as Dracula or Frankenstein, making a resurrected mummy the perfect subject for a supernatural horror series. First appearing in The Mummy (1932), the eponymous creature is set to return to theaters with Lee Cronin’s The Mummy in 2026. Before then, viewers can use our guide to find out how to catch up on The Mummy franchise and differentiate between the various series.

Universal Pictures’ The Mummy franchise began with the 1932 movie. In the film, archeologist Sir Joseph Whemple (Arthur Byron) stumbles upon the tomb of an ancient Egyptian priest who was buried alive. He and his crew unwittingly resurrect Imhotep/The Mummy (Boris Karloff), who escapes and disguises himself as an Egyptian professor while searching for his love, Princess Anck-es-en-Amon.

Encouraged by the modest box-office success of The Mummy and the success of other monster movies like Son of Frankenstein, Universal Pictures decided to revive The Mummy in 1940 with The Mummy’s Hand. Aside from its name and use of footage from The Mummy, the film’s story has no connection to the original. Instead, The Mummy’s Hand follows archeologists Steve Banning (Dick Foran) and Babe Jenson (Wallace Ford), who are lured on an expedition to the tomb of an undead mummy, Kharis (Tom Tyler). The campy horror movie received three direct sequels, The Mummy’s Tomb, The Mummy’s Ghost, and The Mummy’s Curse, with Lon Chaney, Jr. taking on the role of Kharis.

The Mummy went on hiatus for several decades before filmmakers decided a modern reimagining was necessary. The result was director Stephen Sommers’ The Mummy (1999), the most popular and recognizable of the Mummy movies. Sommers moved away from the horror premise and turned The Mummy into an action-adventure film, selecting Brendan Fraser to portray Rick O’Connell, an Indiana Jones-esque figure and treasure hunter. In the film, O’Connell and librarian Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) are swept up in an adventure when they accidentally awaken the mummy Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo).

A successful sequel, The Mummy Returns, followed The Mummy. Fraser and Weisz reprised their roles in the sequel, in which O’Connell faces the dual threat of the resurrected Imhotep and another ancient evil, the Scorpion King (Dwayne Johnson). Unfortunately, reception cooled considerably with the third film, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, leading Universal Pictures to scrap plans for a fourth installment and reboot the franchise instead.

Universal Pictures released The Mummy (2017) with high hopes of rebooting the franchise and kicking off a shared cinematic universe, The Dark Universe, featuring the studio’s most iconic monsters. The film follows U.S. Army Sergeant Nick Morton (Tom Cruise), who unwittingly brings the ancient Princess Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella) to life. However, critics brutally panned The Mummy for its lack of campy horror or swashbuckling adventure, leading to the cancellation of the shared universe. The Mummy then remained untouched until Cronin announced the 2026 reboot.

How to watch The Mummy movies in order

Due to the numerous reboots, the best way to watch The Mummy franchise is by series. It’s recommended that newcomers start with Sommers’ series, followed by the original series and 2017 reboot. Additionally, viewers wanting the whole franchise experience can look into the Abbott and Costello and The Mummy crossover, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, and The Scorpion King series, a spinoff series of The Mummy Returns. If viewers want to go beyond the Universal Pictures franchise, they can also watch the U.K.’s version of The Mummy from the British film production company Hammer Film Production. See below for the recommended viewing order by series:

The Stephen Sommers series

  • The Mummy
  • The Mummy Returns
  • The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

The original series

  • The Mummy
  • The Mummy’s Hand
  • The Mummy’s Tomb
  • The Mummy’s Ghost
  • The Mummy’s Curse

The Dark Universe

  • The Mummy (2017)

The Scorpion King series

Crossovers

  • Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

The Hammer Film Production series

Where to watch The Mummy movies streaming online

Check out our list below to find out where to watch The Mummy movies in release date order online in the U.S.!

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  1. The Mummy

    The Mummy

    1932

    #1

    An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.

  2. The Mummy's Hand

    The Mummy's Hand

    1940

    #2

    A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful daughter, they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a sinister high priest and the living mummy Kharis who are the guardians of Ananka’s tomb.

  3. The Mummy's Tomb

    The Mummy's Tomb

    1942

    #3

    A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.

  4. The Mummy's Ghost

    #4

    An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...

  5. The Mummy's Curse

    #5

    After being buried in quicksand for the past 25 years, Kharis is set free to roam the rural bayous of Louisiana, as is the soul of his beloved Princess Ananka, still housed in the body of Amina Mansouri, who seeks help and protection at a swamp draining project.

  6. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

    #6

    Baggage handlers Bud and Lou accidentally stumble upon Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula and the Wolf Man.

  7. The Mummy

    The Mummy

    1959

    #7

    One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries ago, has been brought to life by the power of the ancient gods and his sole purpose is to destroy those responsible for the desecration of the sacred tomb. But Isobel, wife of one of the explorers, resembles the beautiful princess, forcing the speechless and tormented monster to defy commands and abduct Isobel to an unknown fate.

  8. The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb

    #8

    Those who have interfered with the Tomb of Ra-Antef are in terrible danger. Against expert advice, American showman and financial backer of the expedition, Alexander King, plans a world tour exhibiting this magnificent discovery from the ancient world but on the opening night the sarcophagus is void of its contents. The mummy has escaped to fulfill the dreadful prophesy and exact a violent and bloody revenge on all those who defiled his final resting place.

  9. The Mummy's Shroud

    #9

    Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum. By disturbing the sarcophagus they unleash the forces of darkness. The Mummy has returned to discharge a violent retribution on the defilers as the curse that surrounds the tomb begins to come true. One by one the explorers are murdered until one of them discovers the ancient words that have the power to reduce the brutal killer to particles of dust.

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  10. Blood from the Mummy's Tomb

    #10

    Two Egyptologists, Professor Fuchs and Corbeck, are instrumental in unleashing unmitigated horror by bringing back to England the mummified body of Tara, the Egyptian Queen of Darkness. Fuchs’s daughter becomes involved in a series of macabre and terrifying incidents, powerless against the forces of darkness, directed by Corbeck, that are taking possession of her body and soul to fulfill the ancient prophesy that Queen Tara will be resurrected to continue her reign of unspeakable evil.

  11. The Mummy

    The Mummy

    1999

    #11

    Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It has been over three thousand years since former High Priest Imhotep suffered a fate worse than death as a punishment for a forbidden love—along with a curse that guarantees eternal doom upon the world if he is ever awoken.

  12. The Mummy Returns

    The Mummy Returns

    2001

    #12

    Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King’s might: the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and isn’t above kidnapping its new bearer, Alex, to gain control of Anubis’s otherworldly army.

  13. The Scorpion King

    The Scorpion King

    2002

    #13

    In ancient Egypt, peasant Mathayus is hired to exact revenge on the powerful Memnon and the sorceress Cassandra, who are ready to overtake Balthazar's village. Amid betrayals, thieves, abductions and more, Mathayus strives to bring justice to his complicated world.

  14. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

    #14

    Archaeologist Rick O'Connell travels to China, pitting him against an emperor from the 2,000-year-old Han dynasty who's returned from the dead to pursue a quest for world domination. This time, O'Connell enlists the help of his wife and son to quash the so-called 'Dragon Emperor' and his abuse of supernatural power.

  15. The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior

    #15

    The heroic tale of young Mathayus and his relentless quest for justice against an evil and powerful villain, King Sargon. Mathayus faces heart-stopping tribulations during his adventurous, odds-defying trajectory toward his ultimate destiny: becoming the formidable warrior king of an ancient desert empire.

  16. The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption

    #16

    Since his triumphant rise to power in the original blockbuster "The Scorpion King", Mathayus' kingdom has fallen and he's lost his queen to plague. Now an assassin for hire, he must defend a kingdom from an evil tyrant and his ghost warriors for the chance to regain the power and glory he once knew. Starring Ron Perlman ("Hellboy") and Billy Zane ("Titanic"), and featuring 6-time WWE champion Dave Bautista and UFC star Kimbo Slice, "The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption" takes "The Mummy" phenomenon to an all-new level of epic action and non-stop adventure.

  17. The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power

    #17

    When he is betrayed by a trusted friend, Mathayus must marshal all his strength and cunning to outwit a formidable opponent who will stop at nothing to unlock a supreme ancient power.

  18. The Mummy

    The Mummy

    2017

    #18

    Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.

  19. The Scorpion King: Book of Souls

    #19

    The Scorpion King teams up with a female warrior named Tala, who is the sister of The Nubian King. Together they search for a legendary relic known as The Book of Souls, which will allow them to put an end to an evil warlord.