I will credit Michael with the idea of writing about mummies, which is actually a new area of focus for this blog.
#THE MUMMY MOVIE ORIGINAL MOVIE#
I enjoyed both films, and what they did with the concept of a “mummy,” but am still eagerly awaiting a mummy movie that truly scares me. I started thinking about this after watching two mummy movies set 77 years apart: The Mummy, from 1932, and the more contemporary (but not uber-contemporary) 1999 version of the film with Brendan Fraser.
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I’m not critiquing this practice, but thinking about the process that creates our mythic monsters is rather intriguing. At some point, while learning about mummification burial processes in Ancient Egypt, someone asked, “what if this creature wrapped in white fabric came to life with ill intentions?” We find the burial practices of another culture so unsettling that we turn the mummified body – in our American horror stories – into an evil deity. I mention this, I suppose, because the concept of a “mummy,” –a treasured member of our cultural horror lore – is rather fascinating in this context. It might make us wonder: What is horror? What can we learn about ourselves through the monsters we create?
It’s a bizarre practice, if you think about it, and one that may not be as prominent in other cultures. Plucking these beings – ghosts, vampires, werewolves and the like – from various cultures and myths, we embrace them and re-invent them as our own, simultaneously fearing and worshipping horror creations that may be remarkably different from the original version of the entity in question.
#THE MUMMY MOVIE ORIGINAL WINDOWS#
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