Claim: The Mummy is a reboot of an earlier film.

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 . They began with The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera , both silent films starring Lon Chaney . Universal continued with talkies including monster franchises Dracula , Frankenstein , The Mummy , The Invisible Man , The Wolf Man and Creature from the Black Lagoon . The films often featured Bela Lugosi , Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney , Jr. .