Movies like Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
The best movies like Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) are Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), The Mummy's Hand (1940) and Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953). If Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy hooked you with its adventure and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedScooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy? (2005)7.4/10 from 442 votes
- NewestSlumberland (2022)Released 2022
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Mummy's Hand (1940)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisAbbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
As American policemen in London, Bud and Lou meet up with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Mummy's Ghost (1944)
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...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Mummy (1932)
An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when a British archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the researchers accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAbbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)
Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identity of a foreign film director. The lads wind up as stunt doubles in film the which Gorman is now shooting, while the conman tries to have the bungling pair done away with before they realize who he really is.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
Lost Caverns Resort Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips gives an empty threat to one attorney Amos Strickland, and is shortly fired. When Freddie visits his guest's suite to apologize, he finds Strickland dead of a gunshot wound. As the investigators file in, Freddie becomes the scapegoat of the guests in the hotel, who all had a bone to pick with Strickland. It's now up to Freddie and Detective Casey Edwards to find out who the real killer is, all the while avoiding the many vigorous and violent villains staying at the resort.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Mummy's Curse (1944)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisAfrica Screams (1949)
When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking that his friend Stanley knows all there is to know about Africa, they are abducted and ordered to lead Diana and her henchmen to an African tribe in search of a fortune in jewels.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisHold That Ghost (1941)
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Mummy (1959)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Naughty Nineties (1945)
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
King of the Zombies (1941)
During World War II, a small plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crash-land on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The quick-witted yet easily-frightened manservant soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies and ghosts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)
Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWay Out West (1937)
Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFrankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
After being resurrected by grave robbers, Larry Talbot searches for Dr. Frankenstein in the hopes of being cured of his lycanthropy. The mad scientist may turn out to be dead, but his monster is just waiting to be found…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRoad to Morocco (1942)
Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Burlesque on Carmen (1915)
A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisHit the Ice (1943)
After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers, where they meet an old friend and his band.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)
Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRoad to Zanzibar (1941)
Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & comedy
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)
Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisJack and the Beanstalk (1952)
Two down-on-their-luck loafers take a job babysitting, with a bedtime story of the titular tale turning into a wacky Abbott and Costello-faced musical retelling involving stolen cows, terrible giants, and the heroic boy with an opportunistic butcher in a castle above the clouds.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisScooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy? (2005)
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang become involved in a supernatural mystery in Egypt.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDuckTales: The Movie - Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990)
With his nephews and niece, everyone's favorite rich uncle, Scrooge McDuck, treks from his mansion home in Duckburg in search of the long-lost loot of the thief Collie Baba. But finding the goods isn't quite what it's "quacked" up to be! Their thrilling adventure leads to comical chaos, magical mayhem, and a lesson about what is far more valuable than money, gold and jewels.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisScooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! (2006)
It's horror on the high seas when Scooby-Doo and the gang take a creepy cruise into one of the world's most mysterious places, the Bermuda Triangle! If Scooby, Shaggy and the gang can't solve this mystery, they may have to walk the plank.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSlumberland (2022)
A young girl discovers a secret map to the dreamworld of Slumberland, and with the help of an eccentric outlaw, she traverses dreams and flees nightmares, with the hope that she will be able to see her late father again.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy?
The closest matches to Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy are Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), The Mummy's Hand (1940) and Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy?
People who watched Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy most often go on to Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), The Mummy's Hand (1940) and Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953).
What is the highest-rated movie like Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy?
Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy? (2005), rated 7.4/10 by 442 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy?
Slumberland (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy?
Yes: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), The Mummy's Hand (1940) and Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953).
How are movies similar to Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.