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With five sub-categories from all-ages Halloween fare to PG-13 scares (that are still gore-free.)

However, they don’t come close to the heights of the 1991 story of a long lost and possibly fake Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) returning to the Addams family mansion in a plot to rob them for all they’re worth. In case you’d dismissed The Mummy because of a misguided assessment of Brendan Fraser’s talent or allowed the original to be tarnished by follow-ups like The Scorpion King, it’s worth remembering that the first film in this series is a great action movie. There are balling-up-the-blanket moments as stampeding scarabs devour treasure hunters or when the skeletal and not-yet-human Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo) attacks victims with the help of that dastardly Beni (Kevin J. O’Connor), but the violence is largely unseen.

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