10 Great Movie Monsters Trapped In Awful Horror Movies
3. Ahmanet -- The Mummy (2017)
Sofia Boutella's face may not be one most of us bring to mind when someone mentions The Mummy (let's be honest, you're thinking of this guy), and yet her monstrous incarnation of the undead mummy Ahmanet is a fearsome thing to behold.
Her freaky, split irises alone are enough to send children and small animals fleeing, but add to that taloned hands, preternatural strength, supernatural abilities and taste for snacking on the human spirit, and she could have most adults diving behind the sofa to join them. With an army of zombies at her back, it would seem there's not much can stop Ahmanet, except perhaps the movie she features in...
Devoid of joy, terror and pretty much every other identifiable emotion, The Mummy failed as a film, failed as a Tom Cruise action vehicle, and failed to launch Universal's hotly anticipated Dark Universe series, which would have brought together other classic monsters, such as the Invisible Man and Frankenstein's Monster. Too much effort was spent shoehorning Cruise's stunts and universe-building elements into The Mummy, like Russell Crowe's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and not enough thought went into figuring out what actually makes a monster movie tick.
Let that be a warning to ye, franchise-baiting executives.