Movies like The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
The best movies like The Mummy's Tomb (1942) are The Mummy's Curse (1944), The Mummy's Hand (1940) and The Mummy's Ghost (1944). If The Mummy's Tomb hooked you with its horror and fantasy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Body Snatcher (1945)7.0/10 from 209 votes
- NewestAngels Fallen: Warriors of Peace (2024)Released 2024
- Same seriesThe Mummy's Curse (1944)The Mummy (Universal)
The 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: Same series: The Mummy (Universal) · both horror & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies 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: Same series: The Mummy (Universal) · both horror & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies 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: Same series: The Mummy (Universal) · both horror & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisWerewolf of London (1935)
A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
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 Haunted Palace (1963)
A man and his wife claim the mansion of his warlock ancestor burned alive in 1765.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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: Same series: The Mummy (Universal) · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Invisible Man Returns (1940)
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisThe Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSon of Dracula (1943)
Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDracula's Daughter (1936)
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHow to Make a Monster (1958)
When master monster make-up man Pete Dumond is fired by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Devil Bat (1940)
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMonster on the Campus (1958)
A college paleontology professor acquires a newly discovered specimen of a coelacanth, but while examining it, he is accidentally exposed to its blood, and finds himself periodically turning into a murderous Neanderthal man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHouse of Frankenstein (1944)
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partner is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Raven (1935)
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated, castle-like home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
Once hounded from his castle by outraged villagers for creating a monstrous living being, Baron Frankenstein returns to Karlstaad. High in the mountains they stumble on the body of the creature, perfectly preserved in the ice. He is brought back to life with the help of the hypnotist Zoltan who now controls the creature. Can Frankenstein break Zoltan's hypnotic spell that incites the monster to commit these horrific murders or will Zoltan induce the creature to destroy its creator?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Body Snatcher (1945)
Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted of grave robbery, Gray holds a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane who had escaped detection and punishment.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisInvisible Agent (1942)
Frank Raymond, grandson of the original Invisible Man, uses his family's secret chemical formula to become invisible and volunteer as an Allied spy following the attack on Pearl Harbor. He infiltrates Nazi Germany to outwit Axis agents, recover a stolen spy list, and thwart a planned aerial attack on New York City.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHouse of Dracula (1945)
A scientist working on cures for rare afflictions, such as a bone softening agent made from molds to allow him to correct the spinal deformity of his nurse, finds the physical causes of lycanthropy in wolf-man Larry Talbot and of vampirism in Count Dracula, but himself becomes afflicted with homicidal madness while exchanging blood with Dracula.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHouse of Wax (1953)
A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly runs into trouble when his business partner demands the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAngels Fallen: Warriors of Peace (2024)
When an Iraq War veteran receives a calling from a higher power, he embarks on a mission to stop a fallen angel from raising an army of the dead to take over the world.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It (2007)
Cassie, a 13 year old Gothic girl, is trying to fit in at her new school. To entertain herself, she plays a series of pranks on the popular kids and her younger brother, Max. When she goes to a Halloween store looking for new tricks, she finds a little book called "The Evil Thing"
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSomething Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTwice-Told Tales (1963)
3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", a demented father is inoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, a stranger arrives.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & fantasy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Mummy's Tomb?
The closest matches to The Mummy's Tomb are The Mummy's Curse (1944), The Mummy's Hand (1940) and The Mummy's Ghost (1944). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Mummy's Tomb?
People who watched The Mummy's Tomb most often go on to Werewolf of London (1935), The Mummy (1959) and The Haunted Palace (1963).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Mummy's Tomb?
The Body Snatcher (1945), rated 7.0/10 by 209 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Mummy's Tomb?
Angels Fallen: Warriors of Peace (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Is The Mummy's Tomb part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to The Mummy (Universal), which includes The Mummy's Curse (1944), The Mummy's Hand (1940), The Mummy's Ghost (1944) and The Mummy (1932).
Are there English movies like The Mummy's Tomb?
Yes: The Mummy's Curse (1944), The Mummy's Hand (1940) and The Mummy's Ghost (1944).
How are movies similar to The Mummy's Tomb chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Mummy's Tomb, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.