Looking Back at the Horror Movies and Their Monsters That Inspired “Castlevania”

My first console was a second-hand Super Nintendo, and before I was even old enough to process what a “videogame” was, I was already begging my parents for more “playable movies” to put on the TV. While that’s a pretty reductive way of looking at gaming, it’s also not entirely inaccurate. In fact, legendary developer […]

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NECA Unwraps The Mummy from Their New “Universal Monsters” Line of Action Figures! [Images]

NECA is working on a new line of Universal Monsters action figures based on the original classics, with Frankenstein’s monster, The Wolfman, The Mummy and Dracula confirmed. Tonight, NECA has fully unwrapped the upcoming figure of The Mummy! The company details, “In anticipation of the 90th anniversary of the extraordinary silver-screen classic, NECA announces The Mummy will be joining […]

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How Clive Barker’s Original ‘Hellraiser III’ Pitch Evolved Into ‘The Mummy’

Clive Barker’s The Mummy is a pretty well known unmade horror at this point, I think, especially with Barker talking about it in more detail during a recent guest appearance on Mick Garris’ Post Mortem podcast. Barker was hired in 1990 to write and direct The Mummy for Universal and wrote a script with Garris […]

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