It’s a great time to stock up for a summertime binge watch: right now, all three movies in The Mummy series are on sale, priced to own at $9.99 each in HD.
The Mummy (PG-13, 4.5/5 stars)
An English librarian called Evelyn Carnahan becomes interested in starting an archaeological dig at the ancient city of Hamunaptra.
She gains the help of Rick O’Connell, after saving him from his death. What Evelyn, her brother Jonathan and Rick are unaware of is that another group of explorers are interested in the same dig.
Unfortunately for everyone, this group ends up unleashing a curse which been laid on the dead High Priest Imhotep.
Now ‘The Mummy’ is awake and it’s going to take a lot more than guns to send him back to where he came from.
– Written by Film_Fan, IMDB
The Mummy Returns (PG-13, 4/5 stars)
Many years ago, in Ancient Egypt, the Scorpion King led a menacing army, but when he sold his soul to Anubis, he was erased from history. Now he is only a myth…or is he?
Rick and Evelyn O’Connell are still discovering new artifacts, along with their 8 year old son Alex. They discover the Bracelet of Anubis. But someone else is after the bracelet.
High Priest Imhotep has been brought back from the dead once again and wants the bracelet, to control the Scorpion King’s army. That’s not the only problem.
Imhotep now has Alex and with the bracelet attached to him, doesn’t have long to live.
– Written by Film_Fan, IMDB
The Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (PG-13, 3.5/5 stars)
Centuries ago, the evil Emperor Han was cursed by the sorceress Zi Yuan who transformed him and his army into mummies. In 1946, the explorer Rick O’Connell and his wife Evelyn O’Connell are invited by the British government to take a relic, the diamond “The Eye of Shangri-La” to China.
The ancient stone is capable of resurrecting the Emperor Han and of pointing the way to Shangri-La and the eternal pool of life. When the couple reaches China, they meet their son Alex O’Connell, who has discovered the tomb of Han, and Evelyn’s brother Jonathan Carnahan. The O’Connells are betrayed by their friend Prof.
Roger Wilson, who is associated with General Yang. Yang wants to serve Emperor Han, so he resurrects the mummy and they head for Shangri-La. The guardian of Han’s tomb (and Zi’s daughter) Lin tells them that the only ways to destroy Han are to prevent him from reaching Shangri-La or by stabbing his heart with a cursed dagger.
– Written by Claudio Carvalho, IMDB
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