The 2017 film The Mummy was based on The Reanimator by H.P. Lovecraft.
The Mummy (2017 film) . It is a reboot of The Mummy franchise and the first installment in the Dark Universe film series . Universal Monsters or Universal Horror is a phrase used to describe the horror , suspense and science fiction films made by Universal Studios during the decades of the 1920s through the 1950s . Universal continued with talkies including monster franchises Dracula , Frankenstein , The Mummy , The Invisible Man , The Wolf Man and Creature from the Black Lagoon .