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Stephen Sommers

    The Mummy
    The Scorpion King
    The Mummy
    The mummy returns
    Universal Studios Monsters
    • Universal Studios Monsters

      A Legacy of Horror

      • 252pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      From the 1920s through the 1950s, Universal Studios was Hollywood’s number one studio for horror pictures, haunting movie theaters worldwide with Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, among others. Universal Studios Monsters: A Legacy of Horror explores all of these enduring characters, chronicling both the mythology behind the films and offering behind-the-scenes insights into how the films were created. Universal Studios Monsters is the most complete record of the horror films of this legendary studio, with biographies of major personalities who were responsible for the most notable monster melodramas in film history. The stories of these films and their creators are told through interviews with surviving actors and studio employees. A lavish photographic record, including many behind-the-scenes shots, completes the story of how these classics were made. This is a volume no fan of imaginative cinema will want to be without.

      Universal Studios Monsters
      4,4
    • The mummy returns

      • 48pages
      • 2 heures de lecture

      Contemporary / American English This is the second exciting Mummy movie. Ten years after their last battle with Imhotep, Evelyn and Rick O'Connell are back in Egypt. It is the Year of the Scorpion and people in Egypt are afraid. Somebody has to kill the Scorpion King, or the world will end.

      The mummy returns
      4,0
    • The Mummy

      • 48pages
      • 2 heures de lecture

      Contemporary / American English In Egypt Imhotep, High Priest of the Dead, stays in the ground for 3215 years. Then he wakes up from his half-life and he starts to kill. Evelyn works in a museum. Rick is a soldier. Can these very different people send Imhotep back to the dead -- and also find love?

      The Mummy
      3,0
    • The Scorpion King

      • 48pages
      • 2 heures de lecture

      Now a major motion picture from Universal Studios, starring "The Rock!" Across the deserts of the Middle East, the warlord Memnon expands his reign. With his sorcerer foretelling the outcome of every battle, his army marches undefeated, slaughtering those who dare oppose him. Memnon seeks to fulfill an ancient prophecy to become the King of Legend, the favored ruler of the gods... But the gods favor another. His name is Mathayus. A warrior without peer, he will inspire the remnants of the desert tribes to unite against Memnon's tyranny. And he will ascend a throne of his own making...

      The Scorpion King
      3,9
    • The sequel to The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. Rick and Evelyn O?Connell answer a new call to adventure? as an ancient evil rises to threaten the world. When dashing adventurer Alex O?Connell is tricked into awakening China's ruthless Dragon Emperor from eternal slumber, the reckless young archaeologist must seek the help of the only people who know more than he does about taking down the undead: his parents?Rick and Evelyn O?Connell.

      The Mummy
      4,0